PLT4M

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Focus on teaching lifelong skills in various domains and units to prepare students for an active future. Schedule a 15-Minute demo to learn how PE teachers are ushering in a new age of Physical Education with Fitness and Technology! Be designed to show that physical education is for everyone , not just the athletically gifted.

PE

Gopher Sport

APRIL 17, 2025

The Master PE Teacher course is an engaging and informative learning experience for educators of all levels and backgrounds. Although the course is geared specifically towards PE teachers at the elementary and middle school levels, there is certainly much to take away regardless of what you teach and the age of students you work with!

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

APRIL 16, 2025

By doing so, we tap into intrinsic motivation and create a sense of accomplishment, making each lesson not just a class, but an adventure. It helped my motivation because I had a lot of choice and control over what I was doing. I could see my students being more motivated by something like this. Learning should be fun.

Physical Education

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

When children are pushed beyond their developmental limitsphysically, cognitively, and emotionallythey may fall out of love with sports, lose motivation to continue, or develop chronic injuries that hamper their future athletic endeavors. Burnout often unfolds in stages: Enthusiasm: The child begins with high motivation and excitement.

Sports

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JULY 31, 2025

Hard to believe that a short 6 or 8 weeks ago, we were counting down to the END of the school year, and now here we are getting ready for another round of “meet the teacher” night! What teaching strategies can we use to help our students enjoy physical education class? Simple right? Simply put, visuals!

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

APRIL 17, 2025

At Gopher, we love highlighting teachers who bring energy and purpose to PE. So when we found out that Michelle Jenkins, Kauai Complex Area Resource Teacher, and her team used the Master PE Teacher course to level up the teachers in their district, we had to learn more! They got together to talk about what they learned.

Teacher

Learning Through Sport

MARCH 1, 2025

Rink (2006) suggested that movement concepts as the content for physical education has the potential to be the subject matter of physical education that enables teaching and learning for the long term curricular goals usually espoused for physical education - the transfer of learning to active and healthy living beyond the school gate.

Physical Education

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But PE teachers don’t have to start from scratch every time. Whether you’re new to teaching or a seasoned pro, these PE lesson plan templates are your ticket to stress-free and successful PE instruction. With PLT4M’s builder tool, PE teachers can tweak and modify as little or as much of a PE lesson plan as they want.

PE

Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Lets be honest most after-school and expanded learning programs arent staffed with certified fitness trainers or PE teachers. Simplify with Ready-Made Solutions A powerful way to motivate staff is to eliminate guesswork. Creating a Positive Movement Culture Motivation is contagious. Thats exactly what Skillastics offers.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

Elementary physical education teachers have a lot to cover! Challenges Finding Elementary PE Lesson Plans For elementary PE teachers, finding the right lesson plans can feel like navigating a disjointed maze of resources. Some focus heavily on teaching individual skillslike dribbling or jumpingbut lack engaging, fun activity ideas.

Elementary

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

School districts and PE teachers often face the challenge of finding resources that are both high-quality and engaging for students of different ages, interests, and experience levels. In math, you might teach addition, then multiplication, then algebra. What do middle schoolers need to build confidence and motivation?

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

MAY 1, 2025

At the International School of Creative Science in the UAE, PE teacher Maryrose Camara is bringing all of this to life in a dynamic, culturally rich program thats engaging students in ways that go far beyond the gym. Challenges of Teaching PE in an International School Teaching in a multicultural environment comes with its challenges.

PE

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

When a physical education teacher can’t be in class, whether due to illness, professional development, or personal matters, the show must go on. Well-thought-out PE sub plans not only help maintain the flow of the class but also ensure that students stay active, motivated, and safe, even in the PE teachers absence.

PE

SHAPE America

AUGUST 4, 2022

At some point, most physical education teachers have had to give up the gym for a concert, rehearsal, assembly, construction, or other school/community activity. And, although teaching PE without a gym is not ideal, it is possible. Here are some of my favorite tips for teaching physical education without a gym. It’s not unusual.

Gyms

Physical Education Update

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s almost March break and teachers will soon be getting a long-deserved week of rest and recovery. Now, there are those who claim that teachers are overpaid for the amount of time they work and the number of holidays they receive. Teachers must be “on” for an entire school day. Do teachers deserve their holidays?

Teacher

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LESSONS FROM HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATORS We need health and physical education (HPE) teachers to flood classrooms at all levels with ideas and inspiration. HPE teachers already have it figured out! Active learning strategies lead to less boredom and more intrinsic motivation to learn.

Physical Activity

Drowning in the Shallow

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Mary Kennedy’s (2016) offers a conceptualisation of teaching that is through the lens of persistent challenges.

Motivation

Active Schools Us

JUNE 6, 2024

Teachers can use adversity as an opportunity to help students get better, grow stronger, change, and learn. It teaches us valuable lessons, builds character, and can help us reach our highest potential. Adversity teaches us valuable lessons about ourselves, the power of endurance, and the importance of occasional discomfort.

Teaching

Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

You may still find older teachers and school curriculum still clinging to it. It doesn’t help that evaluation process across subjects prefer clear quantitative data to compare teacher performances. To what extent does motivation comes in when we start with precision? Or is it not? How about sport/game skills or abilities?

Physical Education

Alexandra Lemm

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The other night, I was eating dinner with my husband when we got onto the topic of certain teaching misconceptions. For one reason or another, e very time I speak about my profession to someone who isn’t a teacher, I feel this. Teaching can sometimes feel like a war of attrition. It just makes my career seem so small. ”.

Teaching

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. An example of this is to run, then add kicking a ball, or skip and then lunge.

Motor Skills

Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 23, 2020

For them, my attitude was to hear them out and present activities that was planned for by their original teacher. These two experiences are identifiable for many teachers. At every point in a teaching scenario, including before and after, the ideal situation will be a constant questioning of what we doing. to be more efficient.

Physical Education

Reinventing the Game

JUNE 15, 2021

These pair of words may sound simplistic and maybe even having negative literal connotations at first, especially if you have never encountered it with relation to learning and probably off-putting to someone who wants to teach better and got no appetite for seemingly obscure concepts.

Physical Education

Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Here we break down that impact and take a closer look at why gymnastics is an essential sport to teach in primary school. Teaching gymnastics develops key physical skills. Which leads us on to our next point… Teaching gymnastics is in line with the national curriculum. Gymnasts exercise body and mind.

Primary School

Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 27, 2021

The amount of administration to support teaching seems to have almost overwhelm actual direct teaching matters. The preceding words do sound like a tired teacher rather than reality. Do we need more space and time to think of teaching and learning? We do not need teachers trained over multiple years to do that, honestly.

Physical Education

The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Early on in my career, I had no idea how to motivate students in my teaching. Knowing this impact, how can we best support student motivation in our lessons? Self-determination theory looks at human motivation and tries to understand the factors that push or prevent people from wanting to learn and grow.

Motivation

Active Schools Us

MAY 21, 2023

Professional development is essential for providing teachers, administrators, and other school staff opportunities to enhance the educational experience. These interactions foster a culture of continual learning, encouraging educators to reflect on their teaching practices and seek innovative strategies to improve student outcomes.

Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

In addition, the strategies mentioned here are simple suggestions and examples of strategies myself or teachers I have worked with have used. In a game setting, individuals with ASD may struggle with switching between tasks (offense to defense and vice versa) and understanding social cues from teammates and the teacher.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

APRIL 19, 2024

Of the 4 standards, it’s probably fair to say that the new Standard 4 presents the most opportunity and some challenges for teachers. Helpful progressive statements are included to guide teachers from K through 12. This presents teachers with an opportunity to stay very true to the universal core values of physical education.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D. In this article, Sean explores motivational theories in physical education. Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education Often the responsibility for motivation is placed solely on the student in physical education (PE) classes.

Motivation

Gopher Sport

JANUARY 23, 2023

Competition, however, is an important part of life and it can be used in class to teach kids about sportsmanship, hard work, and empathy. Having competition take place in class and still maintaining a positive learning environment takes continual teaching and modeling. Let that motivate you to work harder and be kinder to others.

Motivation

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Let’s start by accepting that students can’t separate how they feel about their teacher and physical education. If they don’t like PE, they probably don’t have a positive feeling toward their teacher and vice versa. Working in small groups or with a partner or friend may be just what it takes to motivate a student.

Motivation

Reinventing the Game

MAY 1, 2021

I have been lamenting on this for our practise for some time, i.e. how we introduce movement evaluation cues directly as teaching cues to our learners. This is an extremely popular way of teaching for many. This brings to the forefront for me the role of cognition and its influence on how we teach.

Physical Education

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

It is a combination of work stress, doubts about alignment of what I want with what it should it be like to be a Physical Education (PE) teacher, fatigue, etc. came after a discussion with a fellow teacher in the all-consuming discussion of what PE is and what it should look like. Are our teaching models, strategies, approaches, etc.

Physical Education

The PE Specialist

JANUARY 20, 2022

Inspiring students is at least part of the reason that anyone originally decides to become a teacher right? I’m sure you have the same hopes and dreams I do. You know the one’s about students coming back to you one day and telling a story about how you made a big impact in […].

Motivation

Arizona Health and Physical Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Ashley is just beginning her teaching career at Westar Elementary. Her supervising teacher stated that Ashley has a natural ability to create engaging activities that meet her students’ needs while helping them achieve mastery. We’re thrilled to announce that Ashley Hicks is our Future Professional Award winner!

Elementary

The Sporting

MARCH 24, 2023

If you’re looking for fitness motivation, we’ve compiled a list of 10 popular fitness influencers on Instagram to follow this year! If you’re looking for motivation to pump those muscles and abs, you should follow him. For her, family health is the priority and she shares her workouts and fitness motivation on her page.

Fitness