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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• Time to End This Outdated #PhysEd Practice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

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• ​​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​​
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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​​​​

• ​​​Proper English in #PhysEd
• ​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?

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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.
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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

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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​
• 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)

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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​
• Ministry of Football - Small Sided Games​

• ​​Size Matters When it Comes to Playing Fields for Kids​

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Developmentally Appropriate Activities

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)​​
• ​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

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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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Videos

Inspirational videos

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HISTORY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Also check out this article "Problems of Physical Education."