Physical Education

Focus, emotion regulation, and goal setting are social and emotional learning skills that teachers can address during recess and PE.

Explore ways to get moving with your students and to advocate for physical education at your school.

Use these games to engage even the students who don’t usually like to run.

Start class with improv exercises to get students laughing together, demonstrate the rewards of risk-taking and failure, and model a listening, supportive environment.

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers, brain-based teaching program developers and authors, suggest that exercise has physiological and developmental benefits for children's brains and offer ideas for putting a new spin on active learning.

Kinesthetic learning, especially for middle school girls, connects the act of acquiring knowledge with physical movement, breaking through the barriers of self-image and perceived limitations.

Strength training, regular exercise, better rest, and enjoying all of this activity makes you fit, alert, and positive for the physically demanding job of teaching.

Engage all students in gym by updating the old familiar obstacle course. Plus, you can include discussions on growth mindset.

Along with physical strength, a little exercise helps kids build brainpower.

See how integrating language arts and fitness in one class boosts students’ cognition and mood.

Symonds Elementary's music, art, PE, and media teachers weave their practices into the fabric of the community, getting to know each student while enriching the school culture.

To help students understand the power of mindfulness, consider practicing it outside of a classroom setting, whether through sports activities, wilderness programs, or retreats.

By pairing students to sit back to back and focus on their breathing, you can help them develop a sense of mutuality and social awareness.