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P.D. Information and Resources

Professional development is key to becoming/staying up to date with current practices. Below are some ways one can expand their expertise:
  • Achieving National Board Certification
  • Attending Conferences
  • Checking Professional Websites (use RSS Readers to see new published content)
  • Conducting Online Searches and Alerts
  • ​Engaging in Social Media and Chat Groups​​
  • Journaling
  • Listening to Podcasts
  • Participating in Discussion Boards: mySHAPE (members only) or PEUniverse (open access)
  • Participating in Workshops
  • Reading and/or Writing Blogs
  • Reading New Books
  • Reading Professional Journals​​
  • Reading Translated Research​
  • Reflecting on your Teaching Practices
  • Soliciting Peer Feedback
  • Staying Connected with University Faculty
  • Using Shared Folders
  • Visiting Shape America's P.D. Page and Facebook Group
  • Watching Videos and Webinars
  • Working with Student Teachers
SHAPE AMERICA APPROPRIATE PRACTICES
  • 5.1.1 The teacher continually seeks new information to stay current (e.g., reads journals, attends conferences and in-services).

Articles on Professional Development
  • "BLOGGING: 5 Reasons Why"
  • ​​Bringing Students Into Professional Development
  • ​​Developing a Growth Mindset in Teachers and Staff
  • ​​​How Pineapple Charts Revolutionize Professional Development​
  • Question Everything
  • ​​​Teacher Development Homepage (Edutopia)​​
  • ​The Importance of Professional Development
  • ​​The Power of Vulnerability in Professional Development​
  • ​Why Join A Professional Organization?
  • Why Teachers are Turning to Twitter​
  • Why You Should Participate in Your State Association … at Every Phase of Your HPE Career

  • It’s Time to SHINE! ​
  • Kicking over the Ladder​
  • ​Twenty Seconds of Courage!

  • Board Certified
  • Why Become National Certified in Health Education?​
  • Why You Should Consider Becoming a National Board Certified Teacher
Articles on getting Feedback
  • 3 Ways of Getting Student Feedback to Improve Your Teaching
  • 5 Reasons You Should Seek Your OWN Student Feedback
  • End of Year Surveys With Google Forms
  • How Actions are Perceived​​
  • How Your Teacher Observation Can Help You Grow
  • ​Just Taught My Last PE Class This Year. Now What?
  • ​Never Let your Kids Leave Without…(Surveying)
  • Reflecting on the Year's Accomplishments
  • Student Feedback In Physical Education​
PHYSICAL EDUCATION BLOGS
  • ​Cap'n'Pete Power PE
  • ​​​drowningintheshallow
  • ​​​Edutopia - Physical Education​
  • Essential PE
  • ​GOPHER​
  • HPE - Research in Health and PE​
  • Human Kinetics​
  • I Teach More than Gym...
  • LAMPE
  • ​National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability
  • ​OPHEA
  • ​​PE Scholar
  • ​​PEPRN
  • PHE America
  • PHYSEDagogy
  • PhysEquity​​
  • ​​​SHAPE America
  • ​SPARK PE
  • ​ThePhysicalEducator
  • Tin Can Physical Education
  • What's New in Adapted Physical Education
PHYSICAL EDUCATION JOURNALS
Additional List of Journals from Dr. Risto Marttinen 

Physical Education
  • ​Practitioner - ​Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
  • Practitioner - ​Physical Education Matters
  • Practitioner - Quest
  • Practitioner - Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators
  • Practitioner - The Active + Healthy Journal
  • Practitioner - ​​The Physical Educator​​​
  • ​Research - ​Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy
  • ​​Research - ​​​Sport, Education and Society
  • ​​​​Research - American Journal of Health Education
  • ​Research - ​Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education
  • ​Research - ​European Journal of Physical Education
  • ​Research - European Physical Education Review​
  • ​Research - ​Journal of Teaching in Physical Education

Adapted Physical Education
  • Practitioner - PALAESTRA
  • ​Research - Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly​​
  • Research - ​Disability and Health Journal
  • Research - European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity​

Coaching and Sport Psychology
  • Practitioner - ​​Journal of Sport Psychology in Action
  • ​Research - International Sport Coaching Journal
  • ​Research - Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
  • ​Research - Journal of Physical Education and Sport Management​​​
  • ​Research - ​Journal of Sport and Social Issues
  • ​​Research - Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science​
  • ​Research - Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport​
  • ​Research - ​Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal

Teacher Education
  • ​Research - ​​Journal of Teacher Education​
  • ​Research - ​​Teaching and Teacher Education
PHYSICAL EDUCATION PODCASTS
  • All Things PE: A few short and sharp chats with guests from around the world. A place where people share thoughts on the importance of PE, its connection to the wider world, and how to get the best out of students through teaching and learning.
  • ​Believe Move Grow: My name is Daniel Elias, a Physiotherapist with a mission to improve the health of children and young people to facilitate a healthy, happy existence. Every week I’ll be interviewing experts in the field of exercise, cognition, mindset training, psychology, nutrition and sleep, with the aim to find out what the leading clinicians, researchers and teachers are working on to allow children the chance to reach their full potential in a healthy, balanced way.
  • ​CoachPatChat: Coach Pat talks about physed, play, fitness, and mindfulness.​
  • Global PhysEd: The Global PhysEd Voxcast is dedicated to providing health and physical education teachers around the world a platform to learn and share best practices. We showcase some of the top minds in our field and attempt to analyze their success and learn from their experiences.
  • ​OPENForum: We are here to provide you with the news, helpful insight and more from the world of Physical Education! Released on a semi-monthly basis, we will be tackling an immense number of topics, including ones that you the audience suggest!
  • PE Express: Teaching kids to live an active and healthy life isn’t an easy task, and one that leaves physical educators with little time to focus on their own growth. That’s why we gathered PE experts to share a quick tip, activity idea or teaching strategy in 3-minute episodes that you can listen to anytime and anywhere.
  • ​PEPRN: This podcast explores PE practitioners' views of research. I set out to achieve this by discussing the previous week's PEPRN Blog with pre-service and in-service physical education teachers and physical eduction teacher education (PETE) practitioners. The aim of the podcast is to better understand the impact and the take home messages that emerge from research on practice in PE.
  • ​PhysEdCast: Stories from around the #PhysEd world to inspire and innovate your practice. Join host Nathan Horne from iPhys-Ed.com as he explores the world of physical education and coaching.
  • ​​PhysEquity​: The current teaching workforce is not representative of the young people that we teach; one of our aims are to raise the profile of physical education through the voices that are often not represented within the field. We hope to drive change through encouraging more global majority physical educators into the field, engaging global majority physical educators in research and new experiences and making changes in physical education to promote equity.
  • ​Pizza and PE​​: Just a group of friends eating pizza while discussing PE.
  • ​Playing with Research in HPE: We discuss research, theory and current issues in the fields of health and physical education in an easy to understand way. Our aim is to make research accessible to educators and university students from all over the globe.
  • ​Run Your Life Show With Andy Vasily: Host Andy Vasily interviews inspiring leaders from professional sports, the field of education, and the health/wellness industry to unpack what striving for excellence means and to learn more about the guiding principles that shape their work.
  • Scaling the Summit: Join us for candid conversations with movers and shakers within the physical and health literacy fields as we head into the Health and Physical Literacy Summit 2022. Show hosts, Charity Bryan and Sandra Sims, invite you to their weekly master class where they discuss current and relevant issues related to health and physical education while making time for reflection and celebration with those that have been integral to the profession.
  • SHAPE America: The SHAPE America Podcast offers exclusive content from the world of Health and Physical Education. This professional development tool features interviews with SHAPE America Teachers of the Year and other Health and Physical Education champions discussing relevant topics in the field. The goal of the podcast is to provide the audience with tips from leaders in the profession, challenge their thinking, and offer new ideas to try in their setting.
  • SHAPE America Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: SHAPE America’s EDI Podcast will explore a variety of topics relating to equity, diversity, and inclusion in health and physical education. Each episode will feature insightful interviews and discussion with invited guests, podcast host Sean Nevills, and the rest of the EDI Podcast team.​
  • Shapes of Identity: The Shapes of Identity Podcast is a collaboration between SHAPE New Jersey and SHAPE Philly. This podcast is dedicated to discussing identity, how identity impacts us as humans, and how we felt like the topic area was not being sufficiently addressed within our professional organizations. This podcast series is dedicated to the breaking down the topic of identity to learn how it is shaped and how it impacts us as humans.
  • ​​SuperSized PhysEd: The Supersized Physed Podcast is dedicated to providing new ideas, activities and inspiration to our physical education field. Each week a new episode about various physed topics comes out, sometimes with a guest, sometimes it's just me! My goal is to offer inspiration to all sized PE groups, but especially to large groups grades K-5.Our Around the Horn Health and Physed podcast is an ESPN-style show in which panelists answer questions for points in a set amount of time. A winner is declared at the end of each show!
  • ​​The Daily PhysEd: A daily #physed podcast with Nathan Horne from iPhys-Ed.com. Daily reflections, tips, techniques and ideas for making physical education more purposeful.
  • ​​The PE Geek: The PE Geek Podcast is the number one destination for anyone interested in utilising technologies within their Physical Education classroom. The Podcast explores current tools, trends and classroom proven ideas.
  • ​The PE Umbrella: After months planning, the PE Umbrella Podcast was born in October 2015 with the simple aim of providing actionable advice that could be implemented immediately and make a difference around the world on a weekly basis. Now, over 200 episodes later we continue to fly the flag for outstanding Primary PE around the world through our interviews, reflections and free resources.
  • ​​The #PhysEd Show: The PE Geek Podcast is the number one destination for anyone interested in utilising technologies within their Physical Education classroom. The Podcast explores current tools, trends and classroom proven ideas.
  • ​The VAHPERD Podcast: On our podcast, you can listen to the interviews of Virginia's top HPE teachers, leaders, and the network of individuals committed to providing quality HPE to the students of Virginia.
  • ​What Happened Yesterday: In 2016 after a horrific cycling accident, Andy, your host, lived the immediate hours, days, weeks with Amnesia. "I lost about 6 months of memory prior to the accidents". As time went by the Amnesia reduced but the forgetfulness increased. Andy created a habit of writing a journal to remember what happened the day before & sometimes even minutes before. This podcast will share these writings that have spanned 8 books now in the past 3+ years. You will listen to some funny & insightful educational recounts as he narrates "What Happened Yesterday."​​
Physical Education Videos/Webinars
  • Action for Healthy Kids
  • Beyond the Game PE
  • GOPHER
  • ​National Academy of Health and Physical Literacy​
  • ​​Physical Education & Sport
  • ​SHAPE America
  • SPARKecademy
  • The #PhysEd Show
  • Thompson Huddle
  • ​What I Have Learned
Benefits of attending conferences
  • Stay up to date with current practices.
  • Gain inspiration and motivation from peers who share your vision.
  • Network with other teachers and professionals (potential job opportunities are available).
  • Reunite with peers from college and new friends you meet every year.
  • Attain professional development units for your resume.
  • Present a session and share your expertise.
  • More information: Top 3 Reasons To Attend Workshops & Conferences and​ Why Attend Your State Conference?
Example Topics
  • Adapted Physical Education
  • Advocacy
  • Appropriate Practices
  • Assessment
  • Coaching
  • Current Issues and Trends
  • Dance
  • Designing Curriculum
  • Innovative Fitness
  • Motivating Students
  • New Sports and Activities
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • Social and Gender Issues
  • Standards Based Instruction
  • Teaching Strategies
  • Technology
TIPS AND RESOURCES
  • Traditionally, the first day (pre-conference) is not necessary to attend unless there is a session/workshop that you are interested in.
  • Look at the program schedule ahead of time and take note of sessions you want to attend. 
  • Bring a tablet or an alternative to take photos, videos, notes; and use the conference app!
  • Be active in sessions and volunteer when opportunities are presented.
  • Travel in small groups as larger ones tend to be more off task :)
  • Save your lanyards (good for non-participants, bathroom passes, etc.) and conference bags for your physical education program.
  • Pace yourself and rest. Its a marathon, not a sprint.

  • 5 Ways to Enhance Your Conference
  • David vs. Goliath (Local vs. SHAPE)
  • ​Keep The Fire Burning
  • ​Making the Most Out of Convention Attendance
  • Maximizing #SHAPENOLA​​​​​
  • ​PhysEquity: Non-Traditional PhysEd Presenters
  • ​​SHAPE America's Justification Toolkit​
  • Tips for Maximizing Your Convention Experience: A Guide for Health and Physical Educators
  • To Present or to Be Present​
ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES
  • ChargedUP Education Online Conference
  • Connected PE
  • Elementary Physical Education Workshop (EPEW)
  • Human Kinetics Virtual Conference​
  • National Physical Education Institute​
  • ​#PhysEdSummit (#ESPEChat)
  • ​#PhysEdSummit (Physedagogy)​
RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH
  • ​​CITI training: A free online Institutional Review Board (IRB) tutorial, if you are with an affiliated institution such as a university. It is very helpful for learning about issues involving participants in research.
  • Connected Papers: Explore connected research papers in a visual graph.
  • Dictation.io: Use the magic of speech recognition to write emails, narrate essays and long documents in the browser without touching the keyboard.
  • Formatically: Free online citation service.
  • Google Alerts: The service sends emails to the user when it finds new results (ie. web pages, online articles, or blogs) that matches the user's search term.
  • ​Office of Graduate Research Flinders University: Youtube channel on doctoral research.
  • Open Access Articles: Academia, Get the Research, Google Scholar, JSTOR, and Science Direct.
  • ​Otter Voice Meeting Notes: Free voice transcription app.
  • ​VassarStats: Free browser-based statistics program.

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P.E.T.E. Programs - Resources
  • 2017 National Standards for Initial Physical Education Teacher Education: National standards from SHAPE America.
  • AIESEP Flash Blog: International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education.
  • AIESEP Conference: International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (podcast about this conference).
  • Dr. Robert Pangrazi's Lesson Plans: Full length videos can be assessed by PETE students.
  • Glickman's Supervision Models: Supervising models for student teachers, based on their developmental level.
  • Handbook of Physical Education: Sort of a literature review for all things physical education.
  • Intellectual Commons for PETE Doctoral Education: Provides free access for faculty and students to current program information and syllabi used in the education of doctoral students in physical education teacher education.​​
  • ​PE Central Video Center: Full length videos can be assessed by PETE students.
  • Pedagogical Cases: Physical education based case studies.
  • PETE Club Website Template: An example of what to include in a PETE club's website (which helps with continuity).
  • PETE Collaborative: The purpose of this website is to help share ideas with the PETE/HETE community.
  • ​​​PETE & HETE Conference: Conference for teacher educators in PETE and HETE.
  • PETE/HETE in Health and Physical Education for Teacher’s Toolbox: Resources from SHAPE America.​
  • Virtual Guest Directory: Contact information for physical education professionals willing to guest present in your PETE class.​​
P.E.T.E. PROGRAMS - RESearch and Editorials
  • HPE - Research in Health and PE (blog)​
  • HPE - Research in Health and PE (podcast)​
  • PEPRN (blog)

  • ​Evaluation, Rationale, and Perceptions Regarding Fitness Testing in Physical Education Teacher Education Programs
  • Let's Get Virtual: Observing Physical Education Field Experiences through Synchronous Video Conferencing
  • Pedagogical Principles of Learning to Teach Meaningful Physical Education​
  • PETE Collaborative on Race and Racism in PETE and PE (podcast)
  • ​Physical Education Teacher Education Students' Perceptions of the Physiques of Self and Educators in the Profession
  • Targeting Professional Development for Beginning Physical Education Teachers
  • Teacher Educators’ Enactment of Pedagogies that Prioritise Learning about Meaningful Physical Education
P.E.t.e. program - recruitment
  • A Snapshot of Recruitment in Health and Physical Education Teacher Education: Results from a National Survey
  • ​Breaking from Traditionalism: Strategies for the Recruitment of Physical Education Teachers
  • Chapter 6: Recruitment in PETE: Interview Results and Discussion
  • Developing a Future Teachers’ Club to Facilitate Physical Education Teacher Recruitment
  • How to Increase Enrollment in Undergraduate PETE Programs
  • Recruiting Students Into PETE Programs - Part 1
  • Recruiting Students Into PETE Programs - Part 2
  • Resources for Recruitment in Higher Education (SHAPE America)
  • SHAPE America #CareerWhy Tweets

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