TEACHER
The physical education teacher has the unique responsibility to provide high quality physical activity programs that ensure all students gain the skills and knowledge necessary for a lifetime of health, recreation, and wellness.
EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE
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Content areas physical education teachers should have knowledge in:
Refer to the Utah State Office of Education Physical Education Core Standards to ensure appropriate instructional practices used for students to develop competency in all content areas. |
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER
The first step toward becoming a physical education teacher is completing a Bachelor's Degree physical education teacher education program. The second step is becoming licensed. For more information regarding how to become licensed in the State of Utah, click the link below. VISIT THE UTAH STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION PHYSICAL EDUCATION SITE HERE |
.ADAPTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER
There are several options in becoming an adapted physical education teacher. Options include, completing a Master's Degree and/or Ph.D. program with an emphasis in APE or becoming CAPE certified. For more information regarding how to become CAPE certified, click the link below ADAPTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION NATIONAL STANDARDS (APENS) |
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Continuing Education and Professional Development enables educators to stay up to date in the most effective strategies to improve teaching and student learning. Below is a list of websites gathered by the Utah State Board of Education for the purpose of enhancing physical education programs.
Active Schools
Join the movement to increase physical education and physical activity in our nation’s schools. Let’s Move Active Schools is a comprehensive program that empowers school champions—physical education teachers, classroom teachers, principals, administrators, and parents to create active environments that enable all students to get moving and reach their full potential.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Division of Adolescent School Health (DASH)
CDC promotes the health and well-being of children and adolescents through schools, enabling them to become healthy and productive adults.
Discovery Education
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Health, Physical Education, and Fitness.
Human Kinetics
Books, journals, videos, software, distance education courses, job opportunities, and more in sports, fitness, physical education, and the sport and exercise sciences.
PE Central
This website puts the education in physical education. Built by a group of physical education professors and based at Virginia Tech, the enormous collection of health and physical education lesson plans make this worth a visit alone.
PE Central Associations
List of PE Central State, National and District PE Associations.
Physical and Health Education (PHE) America
During the school year, fresh editions of this site are published every two weeks. They have links on health, nutrition, fitness, sports, physical education, news, resources, lesson plans, etc.
Presidential Youth Fitness Program (PYFP)
The national fitness education and assessment program helping schools achieve excellence in physical education. PYFP is a free program developed to ensure what happens before, during, and after the fitness assessment is beneficial for students and teachers and leads to youth who are active for life.
ShapeUpUS: Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children
This is a curriculum that offers children the chance to prevent obesity and build the essential foundation for a healthy life. Free materials sample available.
Skate in School
A commercial website for Roller Blade, and also includes valuable information on funding and applying for grants. Benefits of in-line skating are listed, and a section on commonly asked questions is also included. Representatives from this program can provide in-service as well as a curriculum which is National Association of Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) approved and meets the national standards.
Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America
Formerly Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
A nonprofit, educational organization whose mission is to promote and support creative and healthy lifestyles through high quality programs in health, physical education, recreation, dance and sport, and to provide members with professional development opportunities that increase knowledge, improve skills, and encourage sound professional practices.
Step Express
Select Health has created a great free physical education curriculum targeted for fourth grade classrooms. Step Express tracks students’ progress as they journey across the state of Utah. The curriculum contains three main parts: fitness challenge, lesson plans, and physical education activities.
Utah State Board of Education (USBE). (2019). Physical Education. Retrieved March 11, 2019 from https://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/pe
Active Schools
Join the movement to increase physical education and physical activity in our nation’s schools. Let’s Move Active Schools is a comprehensive program that empowers school champions—physical education teachers, classroom teachers, principals, administrators, and parents to create active environments that enable all students to get moving and reach their full potential.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Division of Adolescent School Health (DASH)
CDC promotes the health and well-being of children and adolescents through schools, enabling them to become healthy and productive adults.
Discovery Education
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Health, Physical Education, and Fitness.
Human Kinetics
Books, journals, videos, software, distance education courses, job opportunities, and more in sports, fitness, physical education, and the sport and exercise sciences.
PE Central
This website puts the education in physical education. Built by a group of physical education professors and based at Virginia Tech, the enormous collection of health and physical education lesson plans make this worth a visit alone.
PE Central Associations
List of PE Central State, National and District PE Associations.
Physical and Health Education (PHE) America
During the school year, fresh editions of this site are published every two weeks. They have links on health, nutrition, fitness, sports, physical education, news, resources, lesson plans, etc.
Presidential Youth Fitness Program (PYFP)
The national fitness education and assessment program helping schools achieve excellence in physical education. PYFP is a free program developed to ensure what happens before, during, and after the fitness assessment is beneficial for students and teachers and leads to youth who are active for life.
ShapeUpUS: Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children
This is a curriculum that offers children the chance to prevent obesity and build the essential foundation for a healthy life. Free materials sample available.
Skate in School
A commercial website for Roller Blade, and also includes valuable information on funding and applying for grants. Benefits of in-line skating are listed, and a section on commonly asked questions is also included. Representatives from this program can provide in-service as well as a curriculum which is National Association of Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) approved and meets the national standards.
Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America
Formerly Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
A nonprofit, educational organization whose mission is to promote and support creative and healthy lifestyles through high quality programs in health, physical education, recreation, dance and sport, and to provide members with professional development opportunities that increase knowledge, improve skills, and encourage sound professional practices.
Step Express
Select Health has created a great free physical education curriculum targeted for fourth grade classrooms. Step Express tracks students’ progress as they journey across the state of Utah. The curriculum contains three main parts: fitness challenge, lesson plans, and physical education activities.
Utah State Board of Education (USBE). (2019). Physical Education. Retrieved March 11, 2019 from https://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/pe