What’s the difference between learning and playing?
Nothing.
Stay current on the latest physical education, health, and nutrition topics with professional development courses taught by physical education and health consultants and past SHAPE America® Teachers of the Year.
Multiple formats to fit your schedule
multiple formats to fit your schedule
Site Based
We’ll send one of our experts to your school to lead a hands-on workshop.
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Join us for a live presentation that includes an opportunity to ask questions.
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Watch one of our recorded workshops online whenever it’s convenient for you. Learn More.
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Here are the professional development workshops that are currently available. Contact us to explore all the options or discuss a customized option for your school.
Quality PE: Strategies and Resources to Boost Your Program.
Physical Education is more than just moving, sweating, and playing fun games. A quality program integrates many important components that have an impact and influence on the lifelong health and active pursuits of our students. In this session, learn organizational, management, and instructional techniques to build a quality physical education program.
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Physical Education
Learn about the principles of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and how they apply to physical education, as well as take away strategies and activities for integrating the SEL concepts into lessons.
Inclusive PE: Strategies for Including All Students in Physical Education
Are you struggling to make your PE classes more inclusive? Every student deserves a positive physical education experience. We create these experiences by designing lessons to differentiate instruction, skills, boundaries, time/tempo, and equipment. Educators must learn to adapt their lessons to support ALL students through inclusive practices. Join this session to discover what this can look like in your PE classroom!
Reality PE: Proven Strategies for Making Secondary PE Fun, Engaging & Meaningful!
What’s your PE reality? Do you find it challenging to get all students motivated, engaged, and supporting one another? Can you imagine a festive, energized PE class where students show up early, give 100% effort, demonstrate leadership and teamwork, genuinely cheer the efforts of their classmates, and learn? Sound too good to be true? It’s not! Read on to learn more about your new reality… Welcome to Reality PE! Sport Education programs are designed to enhance learning and make PE authentic for students. These strategies promote affiliation, teamwork, and personal growth; establish the competition-cooperation link, focus on fair play; and enhance students’ participation and ownership in the learning-teaching process. Collectively, these strategies create a genuine, fun, supportive PE environment. That’s Real PE!
Ignite Your Health Education Program
Are you looking to transition your health curriculum from content-based to skills-based? This workshop is designed to empower health education teachers with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively implement skills-based health education in their classrooms. Participants will explore the SHAPE America National Health Education Standards and the best practices in health education while engaging in interactive activities and discussions. By the end of the workshop, attendees will be equipped with practical strategies and resources to enhance their students’ health literacy and overall well-being.
Rhythmic Movement: Moving to the Beat!
Rhythmic Movement is a powerful and joyful content area for developing creative expression, motor skills, problem solving, and self-empowerment. Most physical activities have an inherent rhythm and therefore being able to move rhythmically is an important skill to learn. Attendees will learn the what, how, and why of incorporating rhythmic movement into their physical education classes, see examples of cross-curricular units with PE, and take-home new routines for dance, cardio drumming, and other rhythmic activities.
Fitness Fusion – FUNctional Fitness and More Fabulous Medicine
Come enjoy FUNctional fitness and fabulous games and activities! Warning: this high-energy, activity-based session may cause intentional muscle contractions, increased heart rates, possible sweating, and even dehydration. Attendees will participate in various fitness activities, circuits, dances, and games, all meant to help students participate in daily moderate to vigorous physical activity. They will understand the role of fitness development and how fitness impacts physically literate individuals who can demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing fitness level.
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