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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

Adding more movement — through physical education, recess and active classrooms — is essential for beating the almost-winter blues. Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. HPE teachers already have it figured out!

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Physically active learning: Sharpening young minds through movement

Aspire-Ed

What if pupils could achieve higher academic attainment while ticking off their daily movement and exercise targets? Boosting results with physically active learning Physically active learning challenges traditional, desk-based teaching methods by injecting movement into lessons. With physically active learning (PAL), they can.

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How Schools Can Prioritize Teacher Wellness

FACTS Management

You don’t have to work in the education industry to know that the last few years have been tough for teachers. This burnout has led to increasing numbers of educators leaving the field, putting even more pressure on remaining teachers. While there’s no magic cure for burnout, one of the best ways to combat it is to prioritize wellness.

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Is teaching Physical Education (PE) a tough job? Why I have stopped trying to be a better teacher and revert to wanting to make sense of what I am doing and why.

Reinventing the Game

In my bigger teaching environment, much effort is also put into the character and citizenship development of the leaners and this role is expected of all teachers, including the academic teachers with clear examinable performance indicators. Probably a self-protecting mechanism of a teacher on a plateau of ‘what else is there in PE’ ).

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Movement Breaks For The Classroom – 15 Free Activities

PLT4M

Movement breaks, or brain breaks, are opportunities for students during the school day to get up out of their seats and move. In this article, we explore the benefits of movement activities and provide 15 different free movement breaks for the classroom. First, movement breaks promote increased focus and attention span.

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Prioritizing PE Post-Pandemic: An Interview with a PE Teacher

Active Schools Us

But then in the fall this year, I started doing live virtual classes as well as teaching in – person. Unfortunately, students just weren’t signing on (maybe 4 out of 15 students) or were signing on but with parents or grandparents doing something in the room that wasn’t conducive to movement. One of the best?things?parents

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Health & Wellness (Middle School)

Open Phys Ed

This allows physical education teachers the opportunity to address the physical and emotional well-being of students by developing and reinforcing healthy and responsible behaviors. The post Health & Wellness (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum.