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The Power of Active Citizenship: Creating Active Citizenship Through Physical Education & Dance
February 26, 2019

This webinar connects educational practices centered on student voices while actively engaging them through physical education and dance. Participants will identify today’s diversities and learn how to facilitate and produce positive active citizenship using the United Nations’ Sustainability Development Goals (SDG). A sample unit plan, United Nations’ SDGs, and a video will be included.

Presenter: Melinda Wilson, SHAPE America 2017 National Dance Education Teacher of the Year; Varkey Foundation Top 50 International Educator 2018, Chicago Public Schools Dance Specialist
Intended Audience: Future professionals, K-12 physical education and PETE faculty

Be a Health Literacy Superhero
Register and watch this recorded webinar starting October 10, 2018

Come discover and unlock your health literacy superpowers. Join SHAPE America’s 2018 National Health Teacher of the Year, Kimberly Ohara-Borowski, as she shares skills-based health activities, lessons, and standards-based assessments that can easily be implemented in the classroom. Take away some fresh new student-centered, engaging tools that will help your students become health literacy superheroes.

Presenter: Kimberly Ohara-Borowski, Health Teacher, Huntington Beach Union High School District
Intended Audience: K-12 (Secondary Focus)

Head's Up: Addressing Inclusivity Utilizing the LIRSPE Scale
September 12, 2018

The purpose of this webinar is to introduce the Lieberman-Brian Inclusion Rating Scale (LIRSPE) as a tool to be used to examine the educational practices of general and adapted physical education teachers when developing inclusive programming.

The LIRSPE measures the actions taken by teachers to determine best practices aligned with the principals of Universal Design for Learning. Some of the scale items include start of class, peer support, differentiated instruction, para-support, equipment, and teacher engagement.

Our intention for using the LIRSPE is to provide teachers with information on how best to address the needs of all students in physical education.

Presenters: Lauren Lieberman, Ph.D., Distinguished Service Professor, The College of Brockport
Michelle Grenier, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire
Intended Audience: Future professionals, K-12 physical education and adapted physical education teachers, PETE faculty

Use Student Choice to Increase Class Engagement
August 15, 2018

With proper implementation, student input in class decisions — such as rubrics, class structure and decision-making — can increase student engagement and enhance learning outcomes. In this webinar, learn about best practices and strategies for implementing student choice in high school and college physical education and sport management classrooms.

Presenters: Jillian McNiff Villemaire, Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Sport Management Program, Flagler College
Anne L. DeMartini, JD, Associate Professor, Sport Management Program, Flagler College
Intended Audience: Grades 9-12, PETE, future professionals

Teaching Dance in PE
July 18, 2018

Discover practical ideas on how to implement and assess dance in your PE program in a way that engages students physically, creatively and cognitively!

In this webinar, you will learn about the teaching dance for understanding (TDfU) instructional model, learn tips on how to ‘shake things up’ in your PE dance unit, access simple songs that develop physical literacy through dance, and see the TDfU model “in action”.

Presenter: Melanie Levenberg, Physical Literacy and Education Consultant, PL3Y Inc.
Intended Audience: K-12, PETE, future professionals, dance educators

Health Education Curriculum Builder

Do you currently rely on a “day-to-day” lesson strategy in your health education classroom?
Would you like to ensure that your teaching is up to date and advancing student learning?
Are you looking for a health curriculum that’s tailored to the unique needs of your students?
If the answer to all of the above is “yes,” then this series of five individual courses is for you!

Course one begins with a deep dive into the National Health Education Standards. Subsequent courses then guide you through a logical progression, including:

• Using backward design in curriculum mapping, as well as unit and lesson plan development;
• Incorporating authentic, performance-based assessment;
• Developing successful implementation plans and strategies;
• and more!

Intended Audience: Teachers, Coordinated School Health supervisors, curriculum specialists

NFL FLAG-In-Schools Course

Across the country, the NFL FLAG-In-Schools program is inspiring boys and girls to be more physically active. And now, it’s easier than ever to use this standards-based curriculum in your classroom, thanks to new digital training modules developed by the NFL, USA Football, GENYOUth and Fuel Up to Play 60 in partnership with SHAPE America.

Get started today and put your students on the path to physical literacy using this skills-rich, fun curriculum!

Intended Audience: Grade 3-8 physical education teachers, PE supervisors, curriculum specialists, future professionals

PE Curriculum Builder Series

If you are currently relying on a “day-to-day” lesson strategy in your physical education classroom or are looking to update your existing PE curriculum, this series of five individual e-courses is for you! 

 All courses are self-paced and will guide you through a logical progression of skills and knowledge, including understanding the national standards and grade-level outcomes, learning to classify core skills and content within your curriculum, incorporating backward design in lesson plan development, using standards-based grading for assessment, developing successful implementation plans and strategies, and more.

Intended Audience: K-12 physical education teachers, PE supervisors, curriculum specialists, future professionals

 

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Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education Series 

The Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education webinar series is the companion webinar series to SHAPE America's Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education guidance document. This document articulates best practices in school-based health education in order to support the implementation of effective health education as a critical component of any school system. The practices described in the document and in the webinars are based on evidence relating to effective health education from organizations such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as other current resources.

Intended Audience:  K-12 teachers, future professionals 

Modifying Team Sports to Include Children With Disabilities

This webinar introduces participants to several different approaches to modifying team sports to include students with disabilities in general physical education. The approaches include differentiated instruction (giving all students different options in how they receive information and how they demonstrate understanding and knowledge of concepts and content), universal design for learning (using the same environment and activities for all individuals without adaptation or specially designed equipment), the STEP Model (modifying space, task, equipment and people), and the Games Design Model (analyzing and modifying objects, players, organization, movements and limits). 

Presenter: Martin Block, Professor and Director of Master's Program in Adapted Physical Education, Department of Human Services, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Intended Audience:  K-12 teachers, future professionals

 

Certified Health Education Specialist Credits

SHAPE America is recognized as a multiple event provider of health education contact hours by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC). We offer Category I Health Education Credits to Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) through the SHAPE America Online Institute. This members-only benefit costs $5 per credit hour, which will be issued upon successfully passing each self-study quiz. 1-12 CHES credits can be obtained per year.

Intended Audience: Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) 

 

Physical Best Specialist

Physical Best is a comprehensive health-related fitness education program developed by physical educators for physical educators that focuses on:

• Educating all children regardless of athletic talent, physical and mental abilities or disabilities
• Moving students from dependence to independence for their own fitness and health
• Promoting regular, enjoyable physical activity

Higher education professionals can become a Physical Best Specialist or Instructor, incorporate the resources and content of the Specialist workshop into their coursework, and offer their students the option to be certified as a Physical Best Specialist. For details, contact education@shapeamerica.org.