MSU

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Youth sport is moving away from community-based, recreational programs to a model that replicates professional and college level sports. For example, teach your athletes how to set goals or how to manage their time. She teaches courses in the Sport Coaching, Leadership, and Administration online graduate programs.

Psychology

PLT4M

JUNE 19, 2025

That’s why it’s essential to prioritize and plan a high school physical education curriculum that not only teaches the foundational elements of health and wellness but also encourages student choice, autonomy, and exposure to a wide variety of activities.

High School

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. Its important to note that sports can be incredibly positive for youth. Training to Win (18+ years): Elite-level competition - win.

Sports

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. Adventure Education.

Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Mark’s journey in education brought him to Arizona in 1982 where he began teaching adapted physical education at the Arizona Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. Mark started teaching in the College of Education at the University of Arizona in 2008 in the Physical Education Teacher Preparation program.

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 9, 2025

During my thesis work while investigating the design theory behind game-basd approaches to sport teaching in PE and sport coaching I came across Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman's (2003) " Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals ". Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance , 85 (1), 9-15.

Coaching

SHAPE America

MARCH 14, 2023

We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. We noticed that once the students had gotten the lay of the land, they quickly started teaching one another.

Recreation

Montessori Physical Education

MAY 4, 2025

The game was traditionally used not just for recreation but also for training, storytelling, and strengthening community bonds. Just as Māori games like Ki-o-Rahi were used to pass down stories, values, and teachings, the game serves as a means of education.

Dance

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Never underestimate your ability to create and teach new games and activities. Investigate local parks and recreation organizations that offer summer camps, activities, or sports teams and enroll your children in activities that interest them. Encourage them to teach you the rules and skills of the games.

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

JUNE 4, 2024

When I began my teaching career in 2007, I was 22 years old. Teaching in the gym was far different from teaching in an ordinary classroom. Like the Eminem song, my palms were sweaty, my knees were weak, and my arms were heavy. I was scared out of my mind. In a school full of amazing people, I felt isolated.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

MARCH 21, 2023

Because I still want my students to get outside for fresh air and some natural vitamin D, I’ve gotten creative with one of my favorite units, which focuses on a standards-based approach with teaching opportunities in social and emotional learning. One of the best outdoor activities I have found to teach these skills is sledding down a hill.

Elementary

SHAPE America

AUGUST 11, 2022

These notes became the foundation for a two-part series we would later write for the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), “Transitioning From Students of Teaching to Teachers of Students.”. The heat really gets turned up as students enter the internship or student teaching phase. Running the Race.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Start a Multisport Camp at Your School When teaching and coaching youngsters the rules, tactics and strategies of sports, the focus especially during the early years is to help them learn a variety of sports (sports sampling) and encourage multisport participation. Show how these skills are developed across sport.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

MAY 24, 2022

There were no recreational teams for young girls. I had coached basketball for many years, including coaching a college team, had worked recreational jobs for my local town, had been a referee in several sports including basketball, and had a doctoral degree in physical education. I applied and was interviewed. You have two children.

Coaching

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

We explore benefits, tips, and strategies for teaching the 4 strokes of swimming in physical education. Even the most recreational swimmers can incorporate these 4 strokes into any swimming routine to get a great workout in the water. Kickboards are a very helpful tool when teaching the 4 strokes of swimming!

Teaching

Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 27, 2021

The amount of administration to support teaching seems to have almost overwhelm actual direct teaching matters. Do we need more space and time to think of teaching and learning? It is space and time that comes with joy and satisfaction in teaching and learning for teachers. So recently, it has been crazy.

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 10, 2021

There is limited evidence of sport teaching in physical education transferring to physical activity participation 'beyond the school gate' in any numerical sense of significance. Teaching for understanding argument. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 71 (5), 19-25. Utility argument. Sport as understood.

Teaching

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Teach students games they can play on their own during PE time. Teach and review playground safety with students , especially with playground structures such as monkey bars. How Can Physical Educators Enhance Recess? So what can we do as Physical Educators to enhance our students’ recess experiences?

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

JULY 16, 2023

A while back, I wrote a blog called “ How to Teach Sports as Culture in PE ” that goes into more detail if you are interested in reading more. Many of the sports we will play are underrepresented on YouTube or online in general, and it was only through thorough research and trial and error we could recreate them in the PE classroom.

Recreation

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

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 4, 2022

Yet, it probably remains an innovation for most coaches, for as the paper I was reading this morning lamented about the authors of that papers preferred 'non-linear' model, the historically common (some say traditional) drill based model for sport teaching persists. Similarly, the Active Australia campaign of the early 2000s.

Teaching

The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dance is a polarizing subject in the world of physical education: some teachers love to teach it, other teachers can’t even imagine themselves teaching it. We teach them to love dancing, as early and often as possible. I understand the importance of support musicality when teaching dance. Let’s dive in!

Dance

Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 23, 2020

A part of the teacher tension in approaching is exactly that, i.e. the tension created by teachers for themselves in wanting to ‘teach’ in PE and not just present experiences. At every point in a teaching scenario, including before and after, the ideal situation will be a constant questioning of what we doing.

Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JULY 24, 2023

She started her career teaching at The Perkins School for the Blind in the Deafblind program. Lieberman Ph.D. is a Distinguished Service Professor in the Kinesiology Department at The State University of New York at Brockport, (SUNY) in adapted physical education.

Physical Education

PE Scholar

AUGUST 13, 2024

The concept of physical literacy is gaining global recognition in policy, education, sport, recreation and health. Its increasing status is owed to its

Recreation

The Sporting

APRIL 19, 2023

Martial Arts Over 80 million martial arts athletes in China 80% of millennials participate in martial arts Martial arts teach Chinese youth self-respect, humility and discipline Martial arts are an integral component of Chinese culture, and people in this country have been practising the different types of martial arts for thousands of years.

Sports

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Most Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programs only require this one course and we all know this one course cannot fully prepare one to teach or accommodate students with unique needs in your classes. So what does ‘qualified’ mean in terms of teaching adapted physical education?

Physical Education

Human Kinetics

AUGUST 4, 2021

Interested faculty members can request 30-day access to review the online guide as they consider adopting it for PE Methods courses or Student Teaching Seminar courses. . Nicholas Brummitt is a graduate of Carthage College (2018) who teaches Physical Education for Hynes Elementary, District 67, in Illinois.

Recreation

PLT4M

MARCH 6, 2023

Alex has an undergraduate degree in Physical Education Teaching and a master’s degree in Curriculum and Teaching in Physical Education. Informal recreation or play on school grounds Assess the accessibility of playgrounds and outdoor play areas and make changes to improve access.

Physical Education

MSU

JANUARY 19, 2023

He also works with the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) as a facilitator for their Scholastic Coaches Leadership Academy – a structured coaching development program designed to teach coaches all the skills they need “outside the wrestling room” to build a strong program.

Coaching

Human Kinetics

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Dr. Daryl Siedentop, an undisputed leader in the field of physical education and influential decades-long contributor to the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education (JTPE), passed away on July 15, 2021, after a lengthy illness. By Tammy Miller, Human Kinetics Senior Managing Editor, Journal Division. . Gulick Award. .

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

Cleland’s (2011) depiction of an enriched learning environment in PE should be considered together with M cBride's (1991b, 1997) suggestion that PE teachers need to use teaching styles that promote inquiry, in addition to creating movement contexts and activity environments designed to foster the dispositions that support thinking processes.

Convergent Discovery

Gopher Sport

MAY 3, 2023

Issues like “I don’t know enough”, “I don’t have the equipment”, “I can’t make walking enjoyable”, or “We live in the middle of corn fields, I can’t teach fun outdoor stuff”. First, dynamicpeasap.com offers numerous lesson ideas for outdoor pursuits, including walking/jogging, recreational games, orienteering, archery, and rock climbing.

PE

Human Kinetics

MAY 9, 2022

Exemplify the best in service, research, teaching and/or administration. After graduating from Michigan State University, Dr. Lund began her 16 year public school teaching career in Colorado where she also served as president of the Colorado Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (CAHPERD).

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Basketball as a series of concepts to enable technical and tactical teaching as complimentary pairings Figure 2. recreation centre programs) or through 'levels' (e.g. Basketball as a concept might be the focus of one term of PE which is dedicated to the theme: education in movement. sport clubs) and terms or semesters (e.g.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In this spotlight, Simon shares insights into his approach to teaching, the challenges and rewards of working in this setting, and the lasting impact he hopes to make on his students. A Unique Setting and Program Structure The PE program at St. “We have three PE teachers, but we also teach other subjects like math and food studies.”

Movement

PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

multiple variations of an exercise, games or activities of varying difficulty, competitive vs. recreational options). Use reciprocal and self-check teaching styles. Explain why you are teaching something and why it is important in accomplishing the overall learning objective. Avoid framing activities as “required.”

Motivation