The Teaching Golf course will prepare you to teach golf to yourself, small groups and your entire class. Participants in the course will learn to create an effective golf curriculum or program for teachers and coaches. Although golf is a game of physical skill, it is also one of the more mentally demanding sports.
The Teaching Elementary Physical Education course will allow educators to enhance even the best elementary grades physical education programs. Students enrolled in the graduate-level course will learn about many introductory and fitness activities, along with numerous lead-up and lesson-focus games that they can incorporate into their curriculum. The course starts with physical education goals and objectives, leading participants through such innovative topics as movement learning, curriculum planning, class management and legal liability.
Studies have shown that exercise can benefit everyone in various ways, physically, mentally, and even creatively. By offering a quality curriculum with a spark of enthusiasm, you can kindle an interest in almost any sport! In this course, we will be focusing on volleyball, basketball and racquetball.
Walking for Fitness is an online professional development course that is designed to stress the importance of cardiovascular, muscular and mental fitness development for maintaining a healthy lifestyle for you and your students. The course will help teachers and administrators acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for physical fitness through participation in a carefully monitored walking program.
Whether you teach physical education, math, science, writing, history or any number of subjects, this course will help you to motivate your students to accomplish tasks as they are set before them. How many times have you heard a student complain about how running a mile, writing a research report or mastering algebraic problems will ever apply to life beyond school?
Teaching Tennis is designed to build the skills and knowledge needed to effectively teach tennis is class or small group situation. The course consists of a textbook plus website reading assignments, skill development exercises, lesson plan development, and coaching techniques. Course assignments encourage participants to integrate specific national standards for physical education.
Elementary physical education can do more than build fitness. It can build curiosity, connection, and classroom community through games for elementary students that invite cooperation and fun. The Elementary Sports: Games From Around the World course explores kids' games from around the world and the cultural stories behind them.
Physical fitness, being outside, and developing a well-rounded education supports cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. Physical fitness through team sports helps create lifelong well-being and good health habits. In Teaching Outdoor Team Sports, educators learn the techniques and structure required for building quality outdoor team sports activities.
The Teaching Individual Sports course teaches educators the best practices for building quality individual sports units that encourage participation in regular physical activity for life-long fitness. Teachers completing the course earn professional development credit while exploring the history of sports, practice routines, strategies, rules, sport-specific physical conditioning exercises and selecting proper attire and equipment.
Teachers will be provided a wealth of information and practical activities for movement-supported learning. Educators will earn 3 graduate-level PD units. Take up to one year to complete this online course!
Develop an understanding of Kelly and Melograno's Achievement Based Curriculum (ABC) for creating or revising physical education curriculum. The ABC model is used to develop, revise and implement K-12 standards-based physical education curricula. This course is designed to satisfy The Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) National Standards and Grade-Level for K-12 Physical Education and various State standards for physical education.
Examine the history of games, play, sport and physical education using a chronological approach to discover their connection to Western thought and culture. The course takes a constructivist approach that is based on scholarly research using both primary and secondary sources, yet is made relevant, applicable and practical by being project-centered.
Physical education has been undergoing significant changes and improvements in how it is perceived in academia and its place and how it is taught in those institutions. The importance of physical education in school curriculum is increasing as the public values fitness more, and in turn, how it is taught has also evolved.
Technology has become an infusive and pervasive presence in most aspects of today's culture; at home, at work, in the classroom, and on the athletic field. Technology has provided teachers and coaches with new tools and has opened up whole worlds of new possibilities for teaching, learning, coaching and managing competitions.
Badminton is an increasingly popular game for all ages from 8 to 80. Because it can be vigorous, is inexpensive, and easy to learn it is appearing in physical education curriculum as a life-long sport. Badminton incorporates fitness, psychological skills, techniques, and tactics. The course will provide information and structure required to build quality badminton units that encourage participation in regular physical activity for lifelong fitness.
Learn how to transition your teacher-focused classes to become student-centered by using Mosston's Spectrum of Teaching Styles. The Spectrum of Teaching Styles moves from the Command (Style A), where the teacher makes all the decisions to Self-Teach (Style K) where the student makes all the decisions.
The Teaching Disc Golf course is designed to give educators the skills needed to effectively teach disc golf to a class or in a small group setting. Educators learn how to teach others to play disc golf, including the disc golf rules and the proper disc golf equipment needed to play the game.
Pickleball is an increasingly popular game for all ages from 8 to 80. Because it can be vigorous, is inexpensive, and easy to learn it is appearing in physical education curriculum as a life-long sport. Pickleball incorporates fitness, psychological skills, techniques, and tactics. The course will provide information and structure required to build quality pickleball units that encourage participation in regular physical activity for lifelong fitness.
Lacrosse is a very old sport, originating with indigenous people of North America as early as 1100 AD. Lacrosse has recently been increasing in popularity at scholastic, collegiate and club levels and is expected to be included in the 2028 Olympic Games. The game of lacrosse incorporates fitness, psychological skills, techniques, and tactics.
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. SEL is helpful to both children and adults, increasing self-awareness, academic achievement, and positive behaviors both in and out of the classroom. It is the process through which children and adults: Understand and manage emotions, etc.
Teaching Lifetime Fitness covers applied information regarding components of physical fitness, exercise planning and behavioral changes to improve personal fitness and promote lifetime activity. You will learn content and strategies for helping your students assess their current levels of fitness, identify areas of improvement as well as understand and apply SMART goals to their fitness program.
This course is designed to support teachers in the vast ways in which to integrate content standards into physical activities. The Physical Education classroom provides many opportunities to reinforce core content and cross curricular activities and concepts. The key is to find creative ways to reinforce the core material while keeping true to the goals and standards related to developing lifelong movers.
People often feel intimidated by the wilderness. Unique training is required to successfully provide for our needs without the aid of modern conveniences. Yet, the wilderness invites us to enjoy a lifetime of challenge, rest, and rejuvenation within its boundaries. This course is designed to equip teachers to teach students how to 'maintain meaningful physical activity throughout their lifetimes' by engaging in wilderness adventures.
Unlock the vibrant world of dance in this exciting course that blends movement, creativity, and culture. Dive into a variety of dance styles--hip hop, jazz, contemporary, cultural, and social--while building your strength, flexibility, and coordination. Learn how rhythm, music, and teamwork can inspire creativity and foster connection.
This course equips K-12 educators with the knowledge and practical skills needed to create inclusive physical education environments and Unified Sports opportunities for students with disabilities. Participants will explore strategies for adapting instruction, modifying equipment, integrating Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and supporting a wide range of physical, cognitive, and social-emotional needs.
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