SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

No matter how you refer to it, lacrosse is a great game to teach your students in physical education class! Using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework while teaching lacrosse in PE will allow you to provide multiple options within the learning environment, thus creating equity and accessibility for ALL students.

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The PE Specialist

MAY 1, 2023

Today I want to share with you some tips on how to teach skills by using station activities in your PE Class. Whats up Phys Ed Friends! Station activities are a great strategy to allow your kids to get a lot of practice time with whatever skill you are working on. It’s really a fun […]

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SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

National PE & Sport Week (May 1-7) is just about here. SHAPE America’s National PE & Sport Week allows us to showcase, promote, advocate, and show off our best ideas. If possible, move your PE space to the playground or open fields. Never underestimate your ability to create and teach new games and activities.

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The Everlearner

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Take a look at each one and get stuck into some really, really popular PE teaching content: This week (and only partly because I am spending almost the entire week interviewing) I have chosen to share some published material. Below you will find my 10 most popular blogs in reverse order.

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The PE Specialist

AUGUST 30, 2023

What’s up PE Friends! Today I want to give you a few tips for teaching a CLASSIC game to your students that every kid should experience at some point in their life. It’s called Four Square! Four square is an awesome game that is easy for kids to play and popular because of the tons […]

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The PE Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Breaking Boundaries: Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools As summer fast approaches (hopefully bringing the sunny weather with it), so do the ‘summer sports’ in PE. Each of these activities comes with different challenges when teaching in primary schools. However, this does not have to be the case.

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PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

We explore benefits, tips, and strategies for teaching the 4 strokes of swimming in physical education. Why Teach The 4 Strokes of Swimming In PE At the very least, students should be able to perform all the basic lifesaving swimming skills like treading water, breathing, floating, and getting back to the wall or shallow water if fatigued.

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SHAPE America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

When we teach students about death in health education, we can help them understand life, empathy, and resilience. Here are five tips on how to teach students about death in the health education classroom (or any classroom). We also help them become more comfortable talking about other uncomfortable topics.

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Gopher PE

AUGUST 16, 2023

In Volleyball, one of the hardest skills to teach is setting, especially with younger students! Above you’ll find a short video on how I approach teaching this important skill to my students. This teaches the importance of mobility during the game. Moving While Setting: Encourage movement while setting.

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Drowning in the Shallow

JULY 31, 2022

How do we improve the quality of teaching in PE and in so doing improve both student learning and the student experience?

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PE Scholar

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In this article Ben Holden describes the inspiration behind his book 'Wanna Teach PE". Check it out to learn more about Ben and the book.

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PE Scholar

APRIL 24, 2024

Mosston & Ashworth Imagine a framework that presents not one way to teach, but eleven. That's what Mosston and Ashworth's Spectrum of Teaching Styles

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Drowning in the Shallow

JANUARY 29, 2022

To achieve that we need to become more intentional with how we shape PE, what we fill it with and how we offer it. To ensure … Continue reading 20 mistakes I’ve made in my 20 years of teaching PE.

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Reinventing the Game

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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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SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Here are five ways to celebrate physical activity during National PE & Sport Week and every week — and all year round: 1. squatting, swimming, biking) in your PE program. Have progressions and regressions of specific movements available within the teaching and coaching mode to facilitate development (e.g.,

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

MARCH 5, 2024

Northern Arizona University is now accepting applications for a new, fully online program that offers a pathway to secure the Standard Arizona Physical Education teaching credential for those who already hold a bachelor’s degree in another field. Learn more at nau.edu/health-sciences/physical-education.

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The PE Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Breaking Boundaries: Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools As summer fast approaches (hopefully bringing the sunny weather with it), so do the ‘summer sports’ in PE. Each of these activities comes with different challenges when teaching in primary schools. However, this does not have to be the case.

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Reinventing the Game

JUNE 15, 2021

The words sort of represent a short cut for me to understand much of what is sometimes said about skill acquisition and learning in PE. To me, these words points to the reason for thriving and successful ecological (living things and PE for us) and artificial systems (the wonderful technology out there).

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Drowning in the Shallow

APRIL 8, 2023

When children turn up to PE we may not inform them of the learning intention and explain why that learning intention is valuable. This makes it both harder for teachers to teach and for children to learn and see PE as valuable in their education. If this happens our subject can seem to lack coherence.

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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role? There was a time where the age group I deal with are supposed to be ready for their enlistment in the uniform-groups via their fitness lessons in schools ) To a large extent, precision also plays a big part of how the fraternity exhibits in delivering PE.

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The Everlearner

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Graham – whether he finds it difficult to read or not – changed my PE teaching career and was the biggest external influence on my working life and, therefore, on me and my family. Between 2003 and 2013, I worked with Graham Thompson at The Sixth Form College Farnborough in Hampshire.

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The Everlearner

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In reality, what you will find in this post is a very considered and analytical approach to what to teach in a PE classroom that is based on evidence and years and years of successful teaching and learning.

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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

I must say that every one of my articles were written as a result of an observation, some experience, some reading and connecting it to what I think I need to do better as a Physical Education (PE) teacher. I find outcome-focussed experiences occupying a lot of the discussion for PE planning. This maybe an unfair oversimplification.

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Drowning in the Shallow

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Teaching PE is a continuous act of making professional judgements about the why(s), how(s) and what(s) of physical education (Quennerstedt, 2019). This is a fundamental but challenging part of a PE teachers job. This … Continue reading What’s your PE Jigsaw Puzzle?

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The Everlearner

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Dear PE teachers, I wanted to take the opportunity to write a series of ideas that might help you to unite your teaching with GCSE PE with the experiences that students receive in GCSE biology. Therefore, I thought this post might support GCSE PE teachers in understanding their students' experiences as a whole.

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The Everlearner

APRIL 3, 2024

Dear PE teachers. Rather, what I am sharing today is my personal view about differentiation and the summaries that I have made –personally– after over two decades of classroom PE teaching. In fact, much of the reading I have done would disagree with what I will write below. It may be the most important post I ever write.

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Drowning in the Shallow

DECEMBER 31, 2022

When we reduce things down to its simplest level the PE Teacher has only two things they have any control over to influence children’s learning in PE and making it a meaningful experience. The second is their teaching behaviours … Continue reading 3 distinctions PE Teachers should know →

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The PE Hub

JUNE 29, 2023

Whilst we still encourage activity over the hotter months, it’s important to bear a few important considerations when teaching safe PE in the heat. PE and after-school clubs in the spring and summer terms are eagerly anticipated by many teachers and pupils. grass as opposed to tarmac) would be safer. #4 Keep safe and enjoy!

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PE 4 Learning

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Overview Wanna Teach PE is an A-Z guide to PE teaching. From the sports hall to the field, from extra-curricular to examinations, PE teaching is one of the broadest, most challenging, yet most rewarding roles within education, and Wanna Teach PE provides insight into the realisms behind being a PE teacher.

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 2, 2023

How do you know what to teach in your physical education classes? If you often find yourself wondering or asking in an online community what you should do in PE this week or next week or how to start, then you picked the right article to read. This made it easy for me to reference and teach my students about our learning goals.

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SHAPE America

JULY 25, 2023

How do I decide what to teach?” So how DO you decide what to teach? That said, it is important to remember that just because you are not teaching a specific drug and alcohol prevention curriculum, for example, does not mean you are not doing drug and alcohol prevention. “There are more skills and content than I can cover.

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The PE Specialist

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I always wait to teach my basketball unit until March since there […] First things first – kick it off by reminding those athletic kids that think they don’t need any practice with fundamentals that even PRO players practice the fundamentals to get better and master their skills.

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Gopher PE

APRIL 15, 2024

Volleyball is a hard sport to teach to lower grades but with the right equipment and proper cues and progressions it can be a fun engaging unit in your physical education program. Serving: Unique Teaching Cues: Meatball on a plate Your heel (of your strong hand) is the fork to hit the meatball off the plate.

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The Everlearner

JUNE 28, 2023

Read the second part of James' blog post about teaching levers in GCSE and A-Level PE.

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The Everlearner

JUNE 28, 2023

Read the second part of James' blog post about teaching levers in GCSE and A-Level PE.

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Teaching Teaching PE 52

The Everlearner

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I am going to detail below a genuine risk I took in one of my A-level PE lessons in 2013 and a risk that I have repeated ever since. But I do want to provoke you to consider what the importance of risks is and how risks may inform and improve our teaching. My aim is not to encourage you to take the same risk.

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Drowning in the Shallow

APRIL 17, 2022

The recent Ofsted research review in PE highlights that most children in PE lessons are novices and therefore need to be supported by explicit teaching strategies. Specifically high quality demonstration, instruction, feedback and practice will benefit the acquisition of important declarative and procedural knowledge.

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