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Instructor: Anita Young

Anita Young is an experienced educator with more than 30 years of teaching experience in physical education, psychology, and mathematics. She earned her MA from Woodfield University, BA from Cal State Bakersfield, and teaching credential from Fresno State. Originally from Vlaardingen, Holland, Anita emigrated to the United States with her family at age nine. Her early experiences learning English while participating in sports shaped her passion for helping students build confidence and discover their potential. She has taught at the junior and senior high levels throughout Madera, Fresno, and Clovis and has mentored numerous student teachers. Anita believes passionate educators invest equally in their students and their subjects. She treasures opportunities to inspire students through faith, leadership, and service. Through her work with Fresno Pacific, she enjoys connecting with educators and learning from their experiences. Anita lives in Los Osos, California, and is part of Atascadero Bible Church.

Classes by this instructor

EDU-975: Impactful Esports Program Essentials

Join us in exploring the dynamic world of esports and learn how to create a program that captivates and engages students. This course covers the strategies, standards, and key pillars that drive impactful esports programs. Discover essential strategies for developing an effective esports curriculum, fostering leadership, and prioritizing student well-being.

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.

HED-904: Childhood Obesity: Healthy Choices Rule

The biggest contributors to developing childhood obesity are soda consumption, junk food, television, video games and computers. This course focuses on the current legislation to combat the obesity epidemic in your state's schools. Schools must adopt policies that restrict access to less nutritious food choices and provide students with healthy food items.

HED-905: Health and Fitness on the Web

Discover the newest ideas in health and fitness and research available. The World Wide Web offers a journey to diverse and creative approaches in teaching health and fitness. This Online course provides teachers the opportunity to explore Internet sites devoted to lessons in health and fitness. Course participants will evaluate different Websites and use them to create lessons for their classrooms.

HED-910: Health and Wellness for Teachers and Students

Discover how to promote and enhance the health and well being of your students and staff by providing coordinated health and support services. This course is dedicated to helping the nation's schools make healthier choices, which will benefit teachers and their students. The tips and strategies outlined in this course are a means to assist in creating a positive environment at the school site.

PED-902: Teaching Indoor Team Sports

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.

PED-903: Walking for Fitness

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.

PED-905: Teaching Tennis

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.

PED-906: Elementary Sports: Games From Around the World

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.

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-908: Teaching Individual Sports

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.

PED-909: Active Bodies, Healthy Minds

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!

PED-926: Dance Education: Moving to Inspire

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.

PED-927: Inclusive PE & Unified Sports

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.

SED-903: Adapted Physical Education: Inclusive Games and Sports

This course assists teachers in modifying sports, games, and physical activities to make them appropriate for a person with a disability. There is a curriculum guide which evolved to assist teachers to effectively include students with disabilities in the least restrictive physical education program. Teachers will be directed to a site that links to current websites and a PDF file of a curriculum guide for adapted PE to complete the coursework.