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    • Quality Physical Education
    • Advocacy Resources
    • "No Excuses!" Documentary
    • Importance of Recess, Play, and Active Classrooms
  • Effective Teaching
    • Teaching Methods >
      • General Strategies
      • Adapted Physical Education
      • English Language Learners
      • Cross Disciplinary Examples
      • Facilitating Discussions and Debriefs
      • Social and Emotional Learning
      • Growth Mindset and Multiple Intelligences
      • Social Justice and Diversity
      • Engaging Families
      • Advice for New Teachers
      • Miscellaneous Articles and Videos
    • Planning >
      • Planning Units
      • Domains of Learning
      • Instructional Models
      • Teaching Styles
    • Assessment >
      • Assessment Overview
      • Rubrics for Assessment
      • Grading
      • Fitnessgram Guidelines and Resources
    • Class Management >
      • Class Management Overview
      • Tools for Assessing Behavior
      • Techniques for Forming Groups
  • Teaching Resources
    • Physical Education >
      • Activities and Lessons
      • DIY and Hacks
      • National Observances Related to PE
      • Organizations
      • Safety
    • Fitness >
      • Activity Promotion and Adherence
      • Creative Fitness Activities
      • Stress Management Techniques
      • Health, Fitness, and Nutrition Resources
    • Instructional Videos >
      • Ice Breakers and More
      • Instructional Dance Videos
      • Dance Resources
    • Professional Development >
      • Information and Resources
      • Social Media Resources
      • Teaching Evaluation Forms
    • Technology >
      • Technology Overview
      • Online Resources
      • Mobile Apps
      • Projector Uses
      • Virtual Reality
      • Augmented Reality
      • 360 Degree Photos/Videos
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Miscellaneous Articles and Videos

Clothing and dressing out
  • Changing How We Approach Having Students Change for PE​​
  • Time to End This Outdated #PhysEd Practice
  • ​​What is Considered Appropriate Dress for PE Teachers?​​
Field Trips
  • ​Field Trips (Edutopia)​​
  • School Trips: The Value of Experiences
Finding and Landing Jobs
  • International PE Teaching: A Reflection
  • International Teaching - Is It for You?​
  • ​​Should You Switch Grade Levels?​​
  • SHAPE America - Career Center
  • ​Taking the Leap: Changing School Districts​
  • Teaching Overseas

  • ​​How Great Teacher Candidates Interview Differently
  • ​How to Rock That Teaching Job Interview​
  • Interview Questions for PE Teachers (Twitter thread)
  • Interview Questions for Health and Physical Education Teachers
  • ​​Interview Tips for Physical Educators​​
  • Suggested Job Interview Questions for Health Education Teachers
  • Suggested Job Interview Questions for Physical Education Teachers​​

Job Interview Tips for Teachers​​
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Online Resumes
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Online resumes are a great way to show potential employers your abilities. More than just paper, you can include photos, videos, links, and much more (see my example). Our Online Technology Resources page has a section dedicated to web design with links to internet resources that help you easily create your own website or you can use E-Portfolio sites such as Portfoliogen. See additional resources below:
  • ​​8 Résumé Tips Just for Teachers
  • Developing a Portfolio - Tips and a Checklist
  • Do I Need a Digital Teaching Portfolio?
Hosting Student Teachers
  • 6 Ways Veteran PE Teachers Can Help Newly Hired PE Teachers
  • Exploring the Impact of Student Teaching Apprenticeships on Student Achievement and Mentor Teachers​​
  • Helpful Tips for Hosting a Student Teacher (Twitter chat)
  • ​Supervising Your Faculty with a Differentiated Model ​
  • Tips for Hosting a Student Teacher
Miscellaneous
  • 4 Easy Ways for Health and PE Professionals to Support Classroom Physical Activity​​
  • ​​A Glossary for the Current Education Debate
  • Language Matters in the Gymnasium​​​​​
  • ​​​Proper English in #PhysEd
  • Teaching With A Challenging Colleague
  • ​Why We Need to See Each Other Teach​​
Physical education teacher education Recruitment
  • #CareerWhy (Twitter Chat)
  • ​​Developing a Future Teachers' Club to Facilitate Physical Education Teacher Recruitment: Do You Hear the Call?​​​​
  • ​SHAPE America's Career Center​
  • The HPE Teacher Recruitment Dilemma and How You Can Help

  • January 2019 Monograph PETE Recruitment and Retention: State of Affairs
  • Breaking from Traditionalism: Strategies for the Recruitment of Physical Education Teachers​
  • Diversity Matters: Recruitment Into the Health and PE Profession
  • How to Increase Enrollment in Undergraduate PETE Programs​
  • If You Build It, They Will Come (or Not): Going the Distance in Teacher Candidate Recruitment
  • ​The Stringency Of The Subjective Warrant: How Are Physical Education Teachers Really Recruited?
  • Recruitment Of Undergraduate Students In Kinesiology: Implications For Physical Education
  • Student Recruitment and Retention Efforts in PETE: Cloudy Skies or Silver Linings
  • ​Student Recruitment for Physical Education and Health Education Teacher Education Programs (Position Statement)

Physical Educators as Role Models
  • 4 Reasons Why We Must be Good Role Models: Teaching Virtues by Walking the Walk! 
  • ​A Philosophical Position on Physical Activity & Fitness For Physical Activity Professionals
  • ​Are Overweight Physical Educators at a Disadvantage in the Labor Market?
  • ​Are Physical Education Majors Models for Fitness?
  • ​​​Code of Conduct for P-12 Physical Education Teachers​
  • ​Fit to Teach Physical Education
  • Get in PE Shape!!! (podcast)
  • ​​How Fit Do Physical Educators Need To Be?
  • ​Physical Description and Job Attainment in Physical Education
  • ​Rationale for and Practical Ways to Model Health and Fitness as Physical Educators and Coaches
  • ​​Role Modeling in HPERD: Do Attitudes Match Behavior?
  • ​The Effect of a Female Physical Educator's Physical Appearance on Physical Fitness Knowledge and Attitudes of Junior High Students
  • The Secret Life of PE Teachers: Exercise, Eating & (Un)healthy Habits​​

  • ​​Butches, Bullies and Buffoons: Images of Physical Education Teachers in the Movies
  • Captured on Film: A Critical Examination of Representations of Physical Education at the Movies
Preparing for substitute Teachers
  • ​9 Ways to Prepare a Substitute for Your Tough Class
  • Helping the Substitute Teacher Succeed​
  • Substitutes and Diverse Learners: How to Prepare
  • Substitute Teacher Guidelines & Information for Physical Educators​
Relationships and Student Motivation
  • ​5 Epiphanies for Reaching the Unreachable Learner
  • 5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Unmotivated Students
  • 5 Ways to Engage Reluctant Students
  • ​12 Ways to Avoid Student Humiliation
  • ​22 Ways to Build Relationships for Educational Success​
  • A Letter to Teachers from "That Kid"​
  • Fostering Relationships Through Games
  • Heroic Music Stimulates Empowering Thoughts During Mind-Wandering
  • ​How a P.E. Department Designed a Compassion-Based Curriculum​​
  • How Ending Behavior Rewards Helped One School Focus on Student Motivation and Character​​
  • How to Create a Positive Culture in Your PE Program
  • How to Develop Empathy for Someone Who Annoys You​
  • ​​How to Motivate and Inspire Students
  • Immediacy of Action
  • Meaningful and Motivating Physical Education Experiences
  • ​Positive Words Go a Long Way
  • Student Engagement: Resource Roundup
  • The Magic of Validation
  • The Take Care of Me List
  • Top 10 Things Middle-School Students Wish You Knew
  • Unpacking Student Motivation
  • ​“Walk & Talks” Are Extremely Effective Way To Connect With Students
  • Welcoming Students With a Smile
Small Sided Games
  • 8 Reasons Why You MUST Use Small-Sided Games​
  • Ministry of Football - Small Sided Games​
  • ​​Size Matters When it Comes to Playing Fields for Kids​

Developmentally Appropriate Activities - Youtube Playlist
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Different Ways to Modify Tasks
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Staying Motivated and Preventing Burnout
  • ​A Letter to the Part of Me that Wants to Quit Teaching
  • Begin Again
  • ​​Don't Quit: 5 Strategies for Recovering from your Worst Day Teaching
  • Fighting The Funk: Staying Balanced As An Educator
  • ​How to Burn Yourself Out as a Teacher​
  • It’s OK to Say No​
  • Naomi Hartl - Video on Twitter
  • Put on Your Own Mask: Secondary Trauma in Education​
  • ​​Recharging My Batteries
  • ​Recovering From a Fall (Part 1) by Daniel Tennessen
  • Recovering From a Fall (Part 2) by Daniel Tennessen​
  • ​Staying Current and Energized as a Physical Educator
  • Tackling Teacher Burnout, Demoralization and Self-Care
  • Teacher Burnout Homepage (Edutopia)
  • The Liberating Joy Of Saying “NO”​​​
  • ​Why It’s So Hard for Teachers to Take Care of Themselves
TEACHING - general
  • ​​11 Major Teaching Mistakes to Avoid
  • A Six-Phase Model for Learning and Retaining Information
  • ​​Boosting Your Teacher Credibility
  • Bringing the Community Into the Classroom
  • Co-Teaching Resources (CSU Chico; see links on the right side)
  • Co-Teaching Strategies (ASCD)​​​
  • ​​​Exit Celebrating: 8 Epic Ideas for Ending the School Year​​
  • ​​How Emotions Affect Learning, Behaviors, and Relationships​​
  • How to Choose a Co-Teaching Model
  • Implications For Educational Practice Of The Science Of Learning and Development
  • ​Implicit Bias 101: An Introduction
  • The Deficit Model Is Harming Your Students​
  • The Impact of Peer Assessment on Academic Performance: A Meta-analysis of Control Group Studies
  • The Sciences of Teaching
  • ​The Teacher Curse No One Wants to Talk About​
  • ​Top 20 Principles for Pre-K to 12 Education
  • Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It
TEACHING - Physical education
  • 7 Minutes out of 45 MVPA
  • A STEP Away from the Lesson Plan
  • ​Are You a PE Pirate?
  • Avoid Delays: Keep the Momentum Going​
  • Does Your Gym Floor Help You Teach?
  • ​Explicit Teaching for Learning in Physical Education: Some Thoughts
  • Finding Meaning through Choice PE
  • ​​How Focusing on the Pleasure of Movement Helps HPE Teachers Create Lessons That Last a Lifetime​
  • How to Create a Quality PE Program With Resistant Staff​
  • Integrating PE in a Montessori Environment
  • ​​Meaningful Experiences in Physical Education and Youth Sport
  • PE Liability Issues: How to Protect Yourself
  • ​Structured And Unstructured Contexts In Physical Education
  • Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching Models in Physical Education
  • ​​Tapping into Student Creativity
  • Teaching Large Class Sizes in Physical Education​
  • The "First-Then" Approach
  • ​Times When You Won’t Hit a 50% Physical Activity Target in a PE Class​
  • Tips from T.O.Y.S.
  • Top 10 Reasons Why Children Find Physical Activity to Be Fun​
  • Using Music as a Teaching Tool in Health and Physical Education
  • Why Free Play Outside Should be a Part of Every PE Program

  • Physical Education Teacher Education Leaders’ Perceptions on a National Curriculum in Physical Education
  • ​Raising the Stature of Physical Education Through (National) Curriculum​
  • ​​The Future of Physical Education after Covid-19​
  • What Should the Field of Physical Education Promote in the 21st Century?
TEACHING - Start of the School Year
  • Back to School P.E. Teacher Checklist
  • Back to School Tips for PE Teachers
  • ​First Days of School Routine​
  • How I Start My School Year: Lesson One​​​
  • ​​My First Week of School Lesson Plan​
youth Sport and Single Sport Specialization
  • Bio-Banding Aims to Put Youth Soccer Teams on Equal Footing
  • ​Factors Influencing Girls’ Participation in Sports​​
  • ​Play More Sports
  • Single-Sport Kids Feeling the Strain of Specialization
  • Single Sport Specialization Special Issue
  • Sport Psychology Blog​
  • ​​Sports Drinks aren’t ‘Recharging’ your Kids. They’re Just...​
  • ​Sports Specialization and Intensive Training in Young Athletes​
  • ​Student Athletes Who Specialize Early Are Injured More Often​
  • Youth Sports Specialization Defies Logic
  • ​Why 70 Percent of Kids Quit Sports by Age 13​
  • Why Kids Quit Sports

Videos

Inspirational videos
PE PEP Talks - Youtube Playlist
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Teachers Inspire Teachers - Youtube Playlist
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Videos on Education - Youtube Playlist
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Who Am I? - Video by Terri Drain
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HISTORY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
In addition to the Youtube playlist below, check out this article "Problems of Physical Education" from 1893.


​​Promoting Quality Physical Education through Advocacy and Free Access to Information and Resources
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