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Instructor: Roland Shearer

Roland Shearer is an experienced educator specializing in health and physical education, with a career spanning more than four decades. He earned a master's degree from the University of San Francisco and a bachelor's degree from Minnesota State University. Originally from Jackson, Minnesota, Roland now lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he is a member of Calvary Castle Rock in Castle Rock. Since 1977, he has taught junior and senior high school, primarily in physical education, while also bringing experience in science and mathematics. Roland is passionate about lifelong learning and believes continuing education is essential in every profession. He values the opportunity to work alongside and support fellow educators. Beyond the classroom, his professional accomplishments include founding and editing California Track & Field, founding Student Online Academic Research (SOAR), and serving as meet director for the Footlocker Cross Country Western Regional. His diverse experience reflects a commitment to education, athletics, and student achievement.

Classes by this instructor

HED-900: Fit for You: A Guide to Wellness

Explore health education strategies and the foundations of wellness education with the Fit For You: A Guide to Wellness course. The course prepares educators to teach students that achieving true wellness involves more than just being physically fit; it also requires finding balance in body, mind and spirit.

HED-901: Teaching Elementary Health

Your classroom must be a place for the next generation of young Americans to develop appreciation for the joy of learning, as well as acquiring a solid foundation for a healthy lifestyle. The theme of the class is 'every teacher is a health teacher.' The objective is to help students establish life-long living habits and skills.

HED-902: Health and Today's Teenager

Health is not limited to the physical side of mankind. It's the all-encompassing subject that deals with life itself in all of its glory, frustrations, disappointment, and triumphs. This course is designed to assist the high school teacher in better understanding the health issues students confront and often bring to school.

HED-903: Weight: Effects on Health and Attitudes

This course is designed to help teachers and their students acquire an historic and consumer perspective of dieting. Different diet routines and their planned outcomes will be reviewed along with their associated medical implications. Cultural expectations, personal motivation, and the regimen of exercise will be explored.

PED-901: Teaching Elementary Physical Education

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.

PED-907: Teaching Outdoor Team Sports

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.

PED-915: Teaching Badminton

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.

PED-919: Teaching Disc Golf

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.

PED-920: Teaching Pickleball

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.

PED-921: Teaching Lacrosse

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.