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Have Fun and Teach On
Resources
Classroom Management Strategies and Tools
- Visuals / Printables / Posters
- The Conflict Corner (Teaching students conflict resolution)
- Daily Self Assessment (Teaching students daily self reflection)
- The Levels of Partner Acceptance (Learning to work with any partner/group)
- Home Base Spots (Assigned Seats in the Gym)
- Printable “I Can Statements” for PE Class
- The Good Sport Code (Teaching students to be a Good Sport)
- My Daily Warmup Routine
- Shoes, Injuries and Time Out Form
- Easy Score Keeper Cards (Teaching students to keep their own score)
- Exercise Posters and One Page Workout Posters Pack
- A Tour of all the Posters on my Gym Walls (+ Skill Cues Poster Pack)
- PE Rules and Consequences Poster
- 5 Awesome Classroom Management Ideas
- How to Setup Nets in your Gym (Volleyball or Tennis)
- My System for Managing Recess Equipment
- How to plan out your year of PE
- How I Manage Doing Grades for Elementary PE
- Pushup Coupons as a PE Reward Idea
Lesson Ideas and Unit Overviews
- How I Teach Spikeball in Phys Ed
- How I run a Cosmic Bowling Tournament
- How I Teach Soccer in Phys Ed
- How to Teach Jump Rope in Phys Ed
- How to Teach Gymnastics in Phys Ed
- How I do Fitness Testing (Fitnessgram)
- How I Teach Striking With Paddles
- How I teach Four Square in Phys Ed
- First week of school lesson
- How to Plan an Awesome Field Day
- Tips for Teaching PE Using Station Activities
- How I Teach Throwing and Catching in Phys Ed
- How I Teach Frisbee Throwing in PE
Teaching Tips
- 2020: Tips for Teaching During COVID
- How to Plan a Year of PE in 15 Minutes
- Common Phrases I say in P.E. Class
- Change Takes Time: Be Patient and Enjoy the Process (Please read this)
- Tips for Teaching with Station Activities (and Free Printable Station Signs)
- Teaching Tips – Short Thoughts for Teachers to Reflect on
Technology Resources
- Using Animated GIFs and Follow the Leader Videos in PE (Jump Rope GIFS and Videos)
- My Complete TV Setup in My Gym and related Technology Tools
- What’s in My Backpack? An Overview of my Daily Carry Technology Tools
- Using iMovie Trailers to Advocate for P.E.
- Google Forms + iPads to give End of Year Surveys
- How to use Plickers to Assess Students
- Using the Clips App to Create Awesome Videos for Sharing on Social Media
- An Awesome Wireless Mic for Teaching PE
- My Favorite Teacher Technology Tools and Tips
Games and Activities
- RPS Entourage: A Fun No Equipment Mixer for PE
- The Cone Flip Mixer: A Fun PE Warmup
- SWITCH: A Fun No Equipment Instant Activity
- 5 Fun Striking with Implements Station Activities
- How I teach Hula Hooping in Phys Ed
- Awesome Warmup and Instant Activity Ideas
- Frisbee Throwing Station Activity Ideas
- 10 Awesome Parachute Activities for PE
- Using Exercise Posters for Warm Ups and Workouts
- Striking Balloons with Implements (Free Lesson Plan Download)
- The Fastest Class Challenge (School-wide warmup challenge)
- Assessing Locomotor Movements (Locomotor License Test)
- Soccer Noodle Tag
- Ideas for Virtual PE (at Home PE Assignments)
- Throwing Games:
- Tag Games
- Team Building Games:
- Basketball Ideas:
Music and Dance
- My Favorite Phys Ed Music Playlists
- Hokey Pokey Dance with Hula Hoops
- How to do the Cupid Shuffle
- The “Call it Macaroni Song” Follow Along with Locomotors
- Practicing Locomotors with the Chicken Dance
- How to setup a Stereo in your gym
- Making Dance Fun and Easy With Mr. Chris (The Jump Dance)
- Whip Nae Nae Dance Steps
PE Conference Notes
PhysEd Q & A Show Podcast + FAQ Page
- Q & A SHOW:
- Job Interview Tips
- Advice for First Year Teachers
- How to teach Kindergarten PE Class
- How to get Kids to Stop Talking While You’re Teaching?
- Planning Your Scope and Sequence (How to Fit it All In?)
- How to Teach a Jump Rope Unit
- How to Teach a Gymnastics Unit
- How to Run a Successful Field Day
- An interview with Ben
- Tips for Teachers the Week Before School Starts
- Tips for Teachers for the First Week of School
- How to Teach Locomotor Movements to Students in K – 2nd Grade
- How to Use and Implement Technology in PE Class
- Teaching in Small Spaces, Staying Organized, Advocacy and More
- Behavior Management, Sub Plans, Lesson Structure and More
- Coping with Stress, Dealing with Behaviors, Repeat Offenders and More
- FAQ Page
- Favorite Technology Integration Tools
- How I Became a PE Teacher
- Management Tips and General Teaching Tips
- Tips for Future Professionals
- How do you do Grades?
- Should I get a Masters Degree?
- How to get Equipment on a Budget?
- How do you deal with “fake” injuries in PE Class?
- Can you Provide Some Team Teaching Tips?
- Should We Have Winning & Losing in PE Class?
Other Articles:
- My Gym’s Climbing Equipment Tour: Climbing Wall, Monkey Bars, Cargo Net and Climbing Ropes
- 4 Ways to Make Fitnessgram Fun
- Instant Activity Ideas
- How to Inspire Students
- Health Integration Ideas
- Christmas Games and Activities
Resources for Teaching Virtually
- Blog on Tips, Resources and Ideas for Teaching Virtually and Socially Distant
- Podcast going over Mindset, Routines, Face to Face and Virtual Teaching Tips
- Ideas Resources for Mostly Asynchronous Virtual Teaching
- Tips for Running a Virtual Field Day
- Virtual Assignments:
PE Specialist Membership
If you’ve checked out all my blog posts and you like what you see and are interested in diving a little deeper, being connected to an awesome PhysEd community and getting access to a ton of amazing resources – Check out The PE Specialist Membership Community, it’s pretty sweet
Resources That I Recommend:
Looking for some helpful PE Resources?
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PE SPECIALIST MERCH 😃
We recently designed some T-shirts to wear when we are out and about presenting at conferences (and of course when teaching as well).
I thought you might want one as well so we uploaded the design to a Shirt Printing Shop, check out our Merch Page Below for Details:
Check Out The PE Specialist Merch Page
If you get one take a pic and tag us on Twitter or IG, we’d love to see our design out in the wild!