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Service Projects: Paradise U and No Excuses Documentary

• ​​Paradise U Community Project​

• No Excuses! - A Documentary on a Transformation Project in Harlem

• ​Documentary Clips with Discussion Prompts​​​

QUALITY PHYSICAL EDUCATION ADVOCACY

• ​The Importance of Physical Education​​
• What Does Quality Physical Education Look Like?

• ​​​​​​Advocacy Resources and Toolkits
• Coalition for Quality Physical Education

EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES

• Teaching Strategies
• Planning
• Assessment
• Class Management

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• Effective Teaching Strategies - General
• Effective Teaching Strategies - English Language Learners
• Effective Teaching Strategies - ​Adapted Physical Education
• ​​​Examples of Cross Disciplinary Activities
• Facilitating Discussions and Debriefs

• ​Growth Mindset and Multiple Intelligences​​​
• Social Justice and Diversity Resources
• How to Engage Families in Your Curriculum​
• Advice for New Teachers
• Miscellaneous Articles and Videos​

• Planning Physical Education Units​
• Domains of Learning and Writing Learning Objectives

• ​​Instructional Models in Physical Education
• Teaching Styles in Physical Education​​​

• Assessment in Physical Education
• ​Rubric Guidelines and Examples

• ​Grading in Physical Education
• Fitnessgram Guidelines and Resources

• Class Management Guidelines​
• ​Tools for Assessing Behavior​

• ​Resources for Building Character and Conflict Resolution​
  
• ​Strategies for Forming Groups​
  

TEACHing tools and RESOURCES

• Teacher Resources
• Fitness
• Instructional Videos
• Professional Development
• Technology

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• Physical Education Related Organizations
• Resources for Physical Education Lessons
• ​​​Safety Related Resources​

• ​​Resources for Physical Education DIY and Hacks​​
• Physical Education Related National Observances​​
• ​​​The Importance of Recess, Play, and Active Classrooms​​

• Examples of Creative Fitness Activities
• ​​​​Strategies for Activity Promotion and Adherence​

• Resources for Stress Management​
• Online Resources for Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

• Icebreakers, Teambuilding, and Conflict Resolution

• Dance - Overview and Resources
• Dance - Folk and Line
• Dance - POCO LOCOs
• Dance - Ballroom and Social Dance​

• Information and Resources for Professional Development​
• ​Social Media Resources for Physical Educators​​

• ​Teaching Evaluation Forms for Physical Educators​

• ​Technology Guides for Physical Education
• Apps for Physical Education
• Online Technology Resources
• ​Projector Uses in Physical Education

• ​Virtual Reality in Physical Education
• 360 Degree Photos and Videos in Physical Education
• Augmented Reality and QR Codes in Physical Education

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Miscellaneous Articles and Videos

• Related Pages

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• Effective Teaching Strategies - General
• Effective Teaching Strategies - English Language Learners
• Effective Teaching Strategies - ​Adapted Physical Education
• ​​​Examples of Cross Disciplinary Activities
• Facilitating Discussions and Debriefs​

• ​Growth Mindset and Multiple Intelligences​​​
• Social Justice and Diversity Resources
• How to Engage Families in Your Curriculum​
• Advice for New Teachers​

 

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 Homepage (Edutopia)​​

• School Trips: The Value of Experiences

Finding and Landing Jobs

• International Teaching - Is It for You?
• Teaching Overseas

• SHAPE America - Career Center

• ​Taking the Leap: Changing School Districts​

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• 9 Job Hunting Tips from Teachers Who've Landed their Dream Jobs
• ​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​​

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The Phys Ed Q & A Show: Job Interview Tips for Teachers​​

Online Resumes

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​
• Adding Morning Fitness Clubs in Your School
• ​A Glossary for the Current Education Debate​​
• Implementing Successful School Run Clubs: Lessons Learned from a District-level Initiative in Boston Public Schools
• ​Proper English in #PhysEd​

• ​​Resources for Understanding Common Core
• ​Sometimes You've Just Gotta Step Over Them
• ​The Adolescent Brain: A Second Window of Opportunity​​
• What Is Physical Activity? A Holistic Definition for Teachers, Researchers and Policy Makers
• Why We Need to See Each Other Teach​​

negative student experiences in physical education

​​**Praise Is Fleeting, but Brickbats We Recall: Why People Remember Negative Events More than Positive Ones**​
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• My Best Memory Is When I Was Done with It: PE Memories Are Associated with Adult Sedentary Behavior
• Negative Experiences in Physical Education and Sport: How Much Do They Affect Physical Activity Participation Later in Life? ​

• Negative Experiences in Physical Education Class and Avoidance of Exercise​
• Letters: ‘The P.E. I Was Exposed to Was Not Evil, Just Sad’
• When Physical Activity Participation Promotes Inactivity

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Check out these student-uploaded videos (found on Youtube) on why they hate physical education. What can we learn from these students? How can we address their issues?

This tweet thread has a lot of anecdotes regarding negative physical education experience. What can we learn from this and how can we improve? Click here to see the entire discussion.

Physical education teacher education (p.E.T.E.) Recruitment

• #CareerWhy (Twitter Chat)
• ​​Developing a Future Teachers' Club to Facilitate Physical Education Teacher Recruitment: Do You Hear the Call?​​
• Diversity Matters: Recruitment Into the Health and PE Profession​​

• ​SHAPE America's Career Center
• ​Student Recruitment for Physical Education and Health Education Teacher Education Programs (Position Statement)
• The HPE Teacher Recruitment Dilemma and How You Can Help

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• January 2019 Monograph PETE Recruitment and Retention: State of Affairs
• Breaking from Traditionalism: Strategies for the Recruitment of Physical Education Teachers​
• How to Increase Enrollment in Undergraduate PETE Programs​
• If You Build It, They Will Come (or Not): Going the Distance in Teacher Candidate Recruitment

• ​​Minority-Serving Institutions: Profiles and Recruitment Possibilities for Higher Education
• 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

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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

• ​​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​​

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• ​​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
• ​“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​
• FIFA - Small Sided Games​

• Ministry of Football - Small Sided Games​
• ​Size Matters When it Comes to Playing Fields for Kids
• ​Using Small Sided Games to Teach the Overarm Throw - A Word of Caution

Developmentally Appropriate Equipment, Boundaries, and Rules

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
• ​​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​
• ​​Should You Switch Grade Levels?
• Staying Current and Energized as a Physical Educator
• Tackling Teacher Burnout, Demoralization and Self-Care
• Teacher Burnout Homepage (Edutopia)​​
• ​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)
• ​Deconstructing Our Teacher Talk Time​
• ​​​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
• ​Go-To Strategies of Top Educators​​
• 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
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching Models in Physical Education
• ​​Tapping into Student Creativity
• Teaching Large Class Sizes in Physical Education​
• ​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

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• 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

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• Inspirational Videos 1
• Inspirational Videos 2
• Miscellaneous Videos

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Inspirational Education Videos

"Before" is a documentary short that explores that penultimate 'tween year though the lens of one 5th grade class on the last day of elementary school.
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History of Physical Education
(also read this article)