Miscellaneous Articles and Videos
hosting Student teachers
- 6 Ways Veteran PE Teachers Can Help Newly Hired PE Teachers
- Clarifying Developmental Supervision
- Developmental Supervision Alternative Practices for Helping Teachers Improve Instruction
- Helpful Tips for Hosting a Student Teacher (Twitter chat)
- Supervision in Physical Education Teacher Education Programs: Making the Case for Paired Placements
- Supervising Your Faculty with a Differentiated Model
- The Developmental Approach to Supervision
- Tips for Hosting a Student Teacher
Miscellaneous
- 4 Easy Ways for Health and PE Professionals to Support Classroom Physical Activity
- 8 Epic Ideas for Ending the School Year
- A Glossary for the Current Education Debate
- Back to Teaching – Postpartum Series
- Language Matters in the Gymnasium
- Overcoming Your Teacher Fears
- Proper English in #PhysEd
- Shopping Carts for PE?
- Teaching With A Challenging Colleague
- Why We Need to See Each Other Teach
Physical Educators as Role Models
Editorials
- 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
- Being a Role Model and Helping Instill Healthy Habits in Students
- Code of Conduct for P-12 Physical Education Teachers
- Podcast - Get in PE Shape!!!
- Rationale for and Practical Ways to Model Health and Fitness as Physical Educators and Coaches
- Role Modeling in HPERD: Do Attitudes Match Behavior?
- SHAPE America’s Code of Ethics Position Statement
- The Secret Life of PE Teachers: Exercise, Eating & (Un)healthy Habits
Research
- Are Overweight Physical Educators at a Disadvantage in the Labor Market?
- Are Physical Education Majors Models for Fitness?
- Physical Description and Job Attainment in PE
- The Effect of a Female Physical Educator's Physical Appearance on Physical Fitness Knowledge and Attitudes of Junior High Students
- The Good the Bad and the Ugly Primary School Children's Visual Representations and Interpretations of Pe Teacher Embodiments
Preparing for substitute Teachers
Relationships and Student Motivation
Physical Education
- Connection Before Content
- Conversation Starters
- Fostering Relationships Through Games
- How a P.E. Department Designed a Compassion-Based Curriculum
- How to Create a Positive Culture in Your PE Program
- How to Motivate and Inspire Students
- Immediacy of Action
- Motivation in Physical Education
- Unpacking Student Motivation
General Education
- 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
- Heroic Music Stimulates Empowering Thoughts During Mind-Wandering
- How Ending Behavior Rewards Helped One School Focus on Student Motivation and Character
- How to Develop Empathy for Someone Who Annoys You
- Positive Words Go a Long Way
- The Importance of Satisfying Children’s Basic Psychological Needs in Primary School Physical Education for PE-Motivation, and Its Relations With Fundamental Motor and PE-related Skills
- The Magic of Validation
- The Take Care of Me List
- “Walk & Talks” Are Extremely Effective Way To Connect With Students
- Welcoming Students With a Smile
Running/walking Clubs
Websites
Articles
- Adding Morning Fitness Clubs in Your School
- How to Create a Before-School Fitness and Running Club
- How to Lead an Accessible Sensory Walk
- How to Start an After-School Running Club for Kids
- Implementing Successful School Run Clubs: Lessons Learned from a District-level Initiative in Boston Public Schools
Staying Motivated and Preventing Burnout
- A Letter to the Part of Me that Wants to Quit Teaching
- Begin Again
- Fighting The Funk: Staying Balanced As An Educator
- 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”
TEACHING - general
- 6 Models of Co-Teaching
- 10 Ways to Give a Better Lecture
- 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
- How to Choose a Co-Teaching Model
- The Deficit Model Is Harming Your Students
- 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
- Avoid Delays: Keep the Momentum Going
- Does Your Gym Floor Help You Teach?
- Integrating PE in a Montessori Environment
- Nature-Based Physical Activity in PE
- PE Liability Issues: How to Protect Yourself
- Structured and Unstructured Contexts In Physical Education
- Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching Models in Physical Education (video)
- 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
TEACHING - Start of the School Year
- Back to School P.E. Teacher Checklist
- Back to School Tips for PE Teachers
- Engaging Families
- First Day PE Lesson Plan! Rules, Games, & Expectations
- First Days of School Routine
- How I Start My School Year: Lesson One
- Mr. Graham's Week 1 (Grades 3-5)
- My First Week of School Lesson Plan
- Tips for Teachers The Week Before School Starts
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 (Journal)
- 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