A database of resources for teachers, PE teachers and school directors for the promotion of sport at school.
Resources for Physical Education Teachers
- 20 Tips for Developing Positive Relationships With Parents This article contains some suggestions for improving connections with parents who could lend significant support in our charge as teachers.
- 20 Ways to Prepare Young Athletes for Success in Sports and in Life An article aimed at parents (very useful also for teachers) provides them with tips: how to prepare young athletes for success in sports and life?
- 21 Simple Ideas To Improve Student Motivation The webpage provides some valuable tips for teachers aiming at raising students’ motivation
- 21 Ways Sports Fans Can Be Terrible A short review of sports fans’ inappropriate behaviour with a brief analysis of the phenomena.
- 5 Competition Tips Every CrossFitter Should Know On this web page the athletes are given advice how to cope with the stress before competition
- 9 research findings that show why education needs sport An article by the PE teacher trainer/coach educator in which he makes out a thesis about the important role of sport in education
- A Basketball Coaching Guide - How to Work with Parents the "Right Way" and Avoid Unpleasant Problems The site provides coaches with clear and precise tips on effective communication and cooperation with parents.
- A History of Sports Careers Ruined by Drugs and Alcohol The article provides some case studies of the sports careers ruined by drugs and alcohol.
- A to Z Teacher Stuff Discussion forums for teachers to interact and share ideas about education, classroom management, teaching strategies.
- Active for autism Thai webpage provides PE teachers and trainers with a few top tips on how to activate the autistic students.
- Adapted Physical Education The didactic material includes the brief characteristic of the disabilities / disorders, their implication on PA, recommended activities, teaching strategies, positive behavior management strategies.
- Adhering to Ethical Principles When Teaching Students with Disabilities in Physical Education The Article includes ethical guidelines and recommendations for PE teachers dealing with inclusive education.
- Alcohol and athletic performance The article analyses the problem of alcohol in young atheles’ lives and its influence on their sport performance.
- An effective CSTP classroom This document contains the California standards for the teaching profession, these standards support the creation of classroom communities and curricula in which students with varying backgrounds, learning styles, strengths, interests, needs and abilities are engaged and challenged as learners.
- Anastasios G. Rodis, Swedish Swimmers’ Perception of Parental Involvement Sports plays a significant role in numerous children’s lives. For many children, sports participation is a positive and enjoyable experience, where as for others, sports can become a negative and stressful experience. Children’s sports participation may be influenced by numerous factors but parents seem to be the most important.
- Andrea Borghini, Sport Ethics The article focuses on that branch of the philosophy of sport addressing specific ethical questions that arise during and around sport competitions.
- Andrew Thomas, What we are really doing with ICT in physical education: A national audit of equipment, use, teacher attitudes, support, and training This paper reports on the results from a detailed national audit of information communication technology (ICT) in physical education (PE), examining attitudes, training, numbers of pieces of equipment and hardware owned, and its employment and use in the UK.
- Assessment in Physical Education This is the chapter 6 of the Physical Education Curriculum Framework and it is states that assessment in PE serves many purposes and contributes to decision making. In order to support this thesis many factors, as for example the different forms of assessment, the teaching – learning – and evaluation process, are taken into account.
- BBC: Ethics guide – Sport The site presents the practice of sport as a human right also dealing with its rules and regulations, use of drugs and body modifications, underdogs in sports, paralympics
- Benefits of physical activity and sport on health and well being The brochure available on the webpage presents guidelines for PE teachers / trainers, study cases, strategies to promote sports, selected examples of key research studies that reports the impact of PA on the prevention of diseases and many links to online resources.
- BSF Guidance: Transforming PE and Sport in school using ICT The purpose of this guide is to help local authorities and schools prepare for the challenge of integrating ICT into their PE and sports classes. The guide also includes case studies showing examples of the use of ICT in PE and School Sport which are in use today and which give teachers and other educators the opportunity to engage with pupils and help them participate and learn in new ways.
- Celia Brackenridge, Children’s Rights in Football: Welfare and Work Celia Brackenridge has studied children’s welfare and work situation in football in relation to some articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Article 12, which guarantees children the right to be heard and have their views taken into account. In her engaging and at times harrowing examination of how children are exploited and mistreated as part of the hysterical hunt for new football talents from around the world, Brackenridge also turns her attention to young football girls’ situation, and asks whether gender equality in this context will lead to girls being subjected to the same adverse treatment as boys.
- Clotilde Talleu, Access for Girls and Women to Sport Practices It is a study on the participation of girls and women in Europe’s various sporting environments, focusing on access, obstacles and the activities involved.
- Code of Ethics & Conduct for Sports Coaches The code has been developed by the National Coaching Foundation from the Code of Ethics and published by the British Institute of Sports Coaches. It is a framework within which to work and is a series of guidelines rather than a set of instructions. Sports coaches are expected to conform to ethical standards in a number of areas: humanity, relationships, commitment, co-operation, integrity, advertising, confidentiality, abuse of privilege, safety and competence.
- Code of Ethics for Educators The webpage presents ethical rules for educators structured in 4 basic principles: Ethical Conduct toward Students, Ethical Conduct toward Practices and Performance, Ethical Conduct toward Professional Colleagues, Ethical Conduct toward Parents and Ethical Conduct toward Community.
- Cottage by the sea This website shows an initiative that aims to help disadvantaged children by offering them different programs. The aim is to develop their self-awareness, confidence and resilience.
- Daily physical activity in schools This guide is intended to assist school authorities in implementing the policy on daily physical activity
- Daily Physical Activity in Schools – Grades 7 to 8 The guide gives examples of sports activities and provides useful general tips on planning organizing sports activities as well as making the best use of physical activity facilities.
- Daily physical activity: a handbook for grades 1–9 schools It offers guidelines on how to link to sports activities to seasonal topics and local/ national events, examples of crosscurricular approaches (mathematics, science, art, music, literature, social studies).
- Dance Movement Therapy – Video for trainers This video presents the methods of dance movement therapy.
- Developing a Schools/Departments vision for PE, Sport and Physical Activity - ACTION PLAN
- Developing Excellence in PE, School Sport and Physical Activity - Developing a Schools/Departments vision This self-review tool will help you assess your school’s provision and outcomes in Physical Education, Sport and Physical Activity. It will also help you identify your school’s priorities. It’s easy to use – answer each of the questions by selecting your level of provision as Emerging, Established or Embedded. This tool had been adapted from http://www.sportengland.org/media/353630/Primary-Spaces-activity-sheets-landscape.pdf .
- Developmentally Appropriate Physical Education Practices For Children This document is written for teachers, parents, school administrators, policy makers, and other individuals who are responsible for the physical education of children. It is intended to provide specific guidelines that will help them recognize practices that are in the best interests of children and those that are harmful (inappropriate).
- Different. Just like you” A psychosocial approach promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities On the webpage -very useful didactic materials available: a book for the teachers of inclusive education, a training guide including the content about physical activities.
- Dominique Bodin and Gaëlle Sempé, Ethics and sport in Europe, Council of Europe Publishing The booklet presents the main issues tackled and resolutions adopted at the 11th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Sport, Athens, Greece, 10-12 December 2008 (ethics in sport, historical and philosophical issues, new challenges, conclusions).
- Doping in sport. What is it and how is it being tackled? A short review of the issue including basic info regarding a brief history of doping, a description of the most commonly used substances and how they are detected.
- Drugs and sport The article provides information about the medical effect of drugs on athlete’s mind and body.
- Education World The newsletter provides teachers with guidelines of computer ethics, online resources for teaching ethics and Internet safety, and eight tips for establishing a "culture of proper use" of technology in the classroom.
- Effective Communication in Schools This chapter of an online course presents suggestions for effective communication and case scenarios to self evaluate communication styles
- Engaging Parents in Sport Programs The article presents in four simple steps a strategy for building positive relationships with parents engaged in sports actions.
- English Federation of Disability Sport The webpage presents different guides, case studies and top tips for people dealing with inclusive sports
- Ethic in Coaching? The article focuses on the ethical dilemma which every coach has to face: “What is ethics and what criteria should I follow?”
- Ethical and safe use of the internet The material presents the New York libraries policy, which informs teachers, parents and students about the ethical use of information and technology in libraries.
- ETHICS, USA, Parent Participation Program – Parental Involvement The site presents the objectives of the parent participation programme.
- European Medieval Sports and Street Games Network (Ga.M.E.S.Net)" Project EAC/S03/2013/046 Development of European cultural diversity trough the promotion and protection of the traditional sports and games from 8 countries represented in the network: BG, CZ, DE, ES, FR, IT, MT, PT.
- European Physical Education Association The clearly structured website provides useful information about projects, publications, meetings and membership.
- Facebook page: European Physical Education Association It offers opportunities for physical education organizations, schools and individuals to promote sport events and achievements.
- Facebook page: Paraplegic Olympics It offers opportunities for physical education organizations, schools and individuals to promote sport events and achievements.
- Family-school partnership framework This website contains some strategies designed to support school communities in developing family-school partnerships.
- Finding Character and Ethics in Sports The materials focus on ethics and its relationship to sportsmanship. Activity sheets, discussion questions, lesson plans, vocabulary development and other resources provide many approaches to using The Washington Post articles that cover ethics practices in sports.
- First aid training video The film gives the instructions on how to provide the first aid which skill is important for a PE teachers and trainers.
- Five surprising ways sport clubs benefit children and youth An article presents benefits for children and youth resulting from a sport club membership.
- Five Things New Coaches Need to Know This web site provides sport coaches with some basic knowledge reg. their coaching practice.
- Franci Pivec, Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct for Using ICT in Education Codes of ethics and/or codes of conduct are a way to decrease the negative influences of ICT use on the social development. They are based on a vision of excellence and a positive mission, which is the goal of both individuals and professional associations.
- Friendship in Inclusive Physical Education This study aims to investigate friendship in inclusive physical education from the perspective of students with and without disabilities. It extends the knowledge base of friendship and physical activity in three interconnected ways: personal development, the nature of friendship, and practice in adapted physical education.
- Hippotherapy This webpage provides information how a horse’s movement can be a treatment tool within the therapy session for a wide variety of diagnosis. It also contains success stories, videos and parents’ opinions.
- How do athletes prepare for competition In the article the volleyball player exchange experience and reveals some tips about her preparation to the competition.
- How to Prevent Fan Violence at Sporting Events This article concerns the issue of coping with fan violence. The webpage includes also links to related articles e.g. Understanding Crowds Key to Controlling Fan Violence and Selling Alcohol to Fight Alcohol Abuse which presen author’s interesting opinions to be discussed with students.
- How You Play The Game. First International Conference on Sports and Human Rights, 1999 The paper states the importance of the relationship between human rights and sport in our modern world. Sport itself, both international and national, can play an extraordinarily significant role in advancing human rights, particularly among some of the world’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable people.
- ICT applications The paper gives examples of ICT applications that can be used in physical education and valuable information on how to use them.
- Inclusion in Physical Education: Changing the culture This article focuses on five key socio-educational cultural changes. The areas for change include (1) program administration, (2) evaluation, (3) instruction and curriculum, (4) long-term planning, and (5) storytelling
- Increasing awareness of social inclusion and involving all actors This web site is about strategies for preventing and reducing poverty and social exclusion and promoting social inclusion.
- Internet Ethics and Rules Ethics are a set of moral principles that govern an individual or a group on what is acceptable behaviour while using a computer. Computer ethics is a set of moral principles that govern the usage of computers. One of the common issues of computer ethics is violation of copyright issues. Duplicating copyrighted content without the author’s approval, accessing personal information of others are some of the examples that violate ethical principles.
- Irish Sports Council - Sample Lesson Plan The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the concept of the sport values and help students acquire knowledge of these sport principles within the context of sport and physical activity and make connections between sport values and other aspects of the students’ lives.
- Jeff Haefner, How to Work with Parents the "Right Way" and Avoid Unpleasant Problems The article gives valuable tips that can help PE teachers improve communication with players and their parents. Open communication is the most important tool teachers and coaches have when it comes to working with parents.
- Journals for Physical Education and Sport It is a useful site where teachers of PE all over the world can publish their articles related to their teaching experience.
- Key Competences For Lifelong Learning — A European Reference Framework Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning (2006/962/EC)
- Key messages of the PE KLA curriculum guide PE is one of the eight learning area, this guide was drawn up to promote the learning and teaching of PE
- Kristin Fransson, Children’s Sport, a Question of Rights? Children, Childhood and the Swedish Sports Movement In this article, Kristin Fransson analyzes current research on children, youth and sports with a view to establishing the present level of academic knowledge about the rights of children in sports.
- Lindsey C. Blom, Dan Drane, Parents’ Sideline Comments: Exploring the Reality of a Growing Issue The article states that researchers, PE teachers, parents, coaches, and youth sport administrators have to work together to make sport as fun and rewarding for children as possible. The article examines the effects of various types of comments on students’ behavior in sports.
- Live Outside the Box Information contained relates to nutrition and physical activity. There are also guidelines on the conduct of sport, physical activity and nutrition education as part of the personal development, health and physical education curriculum.
- Markkula Center for applied ethics The site focuses on the role and meaning of ethics in sport.
- Marques, A.; Holzweg, M.; Scheuer, C.; Repond, R.; Correia, C.; Espírito Santo, R.; Onofre, M., Extracurricular sports in European schools: A descriptive study, This study aimed to describe sports extracurricular activities in European schools (examples, the required qualifications for the instructors; how they are timetabled throughout the year).
- Motivation in physical education classes This article presents a brief overview on teachers’ interpersonal style and its relation to students’ motivation.
- Muriel Poisson, Guidelines for the design and effective use of teachers’ codes of conduct The booklet focuses on teachers’ codes of conduct, set with a view to enhance the professionalism of teachers and quality of education.
- NBA Mix Handshakes The video presents a number of sportsmen’s handshakes, introducing an element of humour to a sports competition which creates a positive image of athletes’ approach to rivalry.
- New Hampshire Physical Education K-12Assessment Document This document analyses in detail the different purposes of assessment.
- Obesity and the adapted physical education environment The article available on this website gives the advice on how to accommodate the PE activities for obese children
- Observation of the students This website offers a list of tools for teachers. This tool will help you discover what kind of tasks you are giving your students to perform.
- Overcoming a Fear Failure In Youth Sports Three lessons for teachers and coaches they need to teach youth athletes so they can overcome their fear of failure.
- P.IN.O.K.I.O. (Pupils for Innovation as a Key to Intercultural and social inclusion) project this project aims at promoting intercultural dialogue against social exclusion,
- PAPE toolkit The Physical Education and Physical Activity Toolkit was developed and designed to assist schools and communities in taking an active role in making positive changes necessary to incorporate physically active lifestyles supporting student health and student achievement.
- Parent and community engagement framework This framework is about schools engaging with parents and communities to work together to maximize student learning outcomes.
- Parent Involvement checklist This website contains a checklist to evaluate and improve parent-school partnerships
- Parental Role and Influence in the Teaching-Learning of Physical Education: Perceptions of Physical Education Students in Kenya's Universities This article is about the influence of parents on the adoption and promotion of teaching of PE for their sons.
- Parents’ guide to the Ontario code of conduct This website contains the Ontario code of conduct that addresses not only to students, but to everyone involved in the education system.
- Personal Genetics Education Project The site presents interactive lessons for high school and college educators to engage their students in discussions of ethics and personal genetics. The lessons are relevant to multiple subjects, including biology, health, social studies, law, physical education and psychology. All of our lesson plans contain background reading for teachers and students, a selection of classroom activities, discussion points, in some cases a slide presentation or video clip, and an evaluation. Each lesson can stand alone, or all the lessons can be taught as a unit.
- Peter Arnold, Sport, Ethics and Education The book promotes sport as an aspect of liberal education, a practice concerned with fairness.
- Physical Activity A site with useful articles on physical education written by PE teachers (a practical guide for facilitators of after-school physical activity, a practical guide for facilitators of after-school physical activity, benefits of active outdoor play etc.)
- Physical Activity for Healthy, Confident Kids This web site contains guidelines for sustainable physical activity in school communities
- Physical Education and Sport / Fair play – the winning way The website includes the fair play rules which are an essential and central part of successful promotion, development and involvement in sport
- Physical Education and Sport at School in Europe Chapter 6 focuses on extracurricular physical activities and sports and provides many examples of good practice, and show how the scope of physical activities may be extended beyond the practice of compulsory physical education.
- Physical Education Assessment Ideas “PE Central, What works in Physical Education” is a web site that provides information about appropriate physical education practices and programs. Tips, ideas, examples, articles. On this subpage some assessment ideas are available.
- Physical Education Outline This site presents a set of rules and regulations children have to observe during PE classes and which parents have to read and sign.
- Pinterest.com It offers interesting and useful resources for PE teachers.
- Policy Guidelines on Inclusion in Education This is the final version of the guidelines which were discussed in a side event at the International Conference on Education in Geneva, Nov 2008
- Practical strategies to prevent teacher stress and burnout. The webpage provides information and resources on many interesting issues concerning teacher work, among them: How to avoid burnout?
- Practicing inclusive education The website gives an access to the toolkit for PE teachers (tips and strategies, various valuable resources) who are interested in inclusive education.
- Project Ability Case Studies This web site includes a number of case studies implemented in the framework of the “Project Ability” which has been designed to help drive and increase PE opportunities for young disabled people
- Promoting ethical behaviour online The lesson plan gives teachers insights into online privacy and ethical behaviour by exploring their digital footprints to better understand that our online interactions may not be as anonymous as we think they are.
- Pros and Cons of Sports Competition at the High School Level The website provides the readers with information about the benefits and dangers of competitive pressure on athletes at the high school level.
- Recall: Games of the Past – Sports for Today Project EAC/S03/2013/057 Beneficiary: The Association For International Sport for All (TAFISA), based in Germany Partners from 9 Member States represented in the network: DE, FI, FR, HU, IE, IT, LU, PL, PT. 40 traditional sports and games that are suitable to be reintroduced to children and youth have been collected from all over Europe and feed an online TSG database that is open to TAFISA members and the public. The research will continue and next steps include the collection of TSG from other continents.
- Resolution of Human Rights Council The Resolution promotes awareness, understanding and the application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through sport and encourges interactive panel discussion to highlight, examine and suggest ways in which sport and major sporting events, in particular the Olympic and Paralympic Games, can be used to promote awareness and understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the application of the principles enshrined therein.
- Resource Center for High School Physical Education Teachers and Others The following resources will provide teachers with information and ideas for improving their school’s physical education program.
- Right to play A humanitarian, non-governmental organization committed to improving the lives of the most disadvantaged children and linking them with their communities through sport.
- Running secondary school sport On the website there is a guide for secondary schools PE teachers, including useful information on school sport environment, sport supporters and running secondary school sports.
- Skills and qualities of a coach An article describes the skills and attributes indispensable in effective sport coaching
- Spectator and Coach Guidelines A set of guidelines for ethical conduct presented on this webpage is divided into separate sections for all participants in sporting events.
- Sport and health, preventing disease and promoting health The brochure available on this website includes information about benefits of sport for modern society taking into account preventing of diseases.
- Sport and social inclusion This website shows an initiative created in Rennes (France) that helps people in great precarity and teach them different sporting activities. Physical education teachers are involved, and if it is possible in a city, it may also be possible for two schools. Resource available online in French.
- Sport and…” This website talks about different subjects such as “sport and health”, “sport and education”, sport and crime prevention”. All of these subjects could help the athletes to talk about them.
- Sport and…” This website shows an initiative which consists in the creation of sport study program, during summer or holidays. It is mainly proposed to go outside the country but we could think about doing it within our country.
- Sports Fan Ethics This webpage provides interesting information on moral and psychological implications of being a sports fan.
- Sports: What motivate athletes? How can athletes maximize their motivation? An article useful for PE teachers about the foundation all athletic effort and accomplishment
- Steven D Stovitz, David Satin, Ethics and the athlete: Why sports are more than a game but less than a war This article reviews key concepts from the philosophy of sport. Using six cases from the sports archives, it presents a practical framework for interpreting and assessing the moral status of an athlete's behavior. This work enables readers to appreciate more clearly both the contextual subtleties and the robust relationship between ethics
- Strategies for Involving Parents in School Health The study presents strategies for involving and engaging parents in the school activities.
- Student- Centered Teaching And Learning This document explains what a student- centered teaching and learning approach is and why it works.
- Student-centred teaching methods: Can they optimize students’ approaches to learning in professional higher education? This paper investigates dynamics in approaches to learning within different learning environments
- Studies in Philosophy of Sport The Studies in Philosophy of Sport series from Lexington Books encourages scholars from all disciplines to inquire into the nature, importance, and qualities of sport and related activities. The series aims to encourage new voices and methods for the philosophic study of sport while also inspiring established scholars to consider new questions and approaches in this field. The series encourages scholars new to the philosophy of sport to bring their expertise to this growing field. These new voices bring innovative methods and different questions to the standard issues in the philosophy of sport. Well-trodden topics in the literature will be reexamined with fresh takes and new questions and issues will be explored to advance the field beyond traditional positions.
- Supporting teacher competence development for better learning outcomes A document produced by experts of European Commission providing an overview of school policy in terms of teacher professional development.
- Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator The book “Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator” offers support and guidance for the unique challenges of teaching.
- Teach PE This document illustrates many different types of team sports, offers lesson plan examples, suggests instructional strategies.
- Teacher Discussion Forums Activities and Games Forum for discussing activities and games which work well in the classroom.
- Teacher Education For Inclusion This review is about the skills, knowledge, attitudes and competences needed by teachers working in inclusive settings.
- Teachers Talk About… experiences of inclusive physical activity This tool was prepared in the framework of the project “Willing and Able: PE and Sport for Young People with Disabilities” implemented by the Australian Sport Commission. It includes PE teachers’ experiences and reflections concerning their teaching practices in the area of inclusive PE with many references to ethical issues.
- Teachers’ code of professional practice The Code sets out the five principles of public service ethics that should guide the work of all teachers in meeting the educational needs of their students.
- TeAch-nology.com TeAchnology provides free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. It features 46,000+ lesson plans, 10,200 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources.
- TeachWithMovies.org The sites enable teachers to create lesson plans for physical education classes based on films. It gives valuable tips on what films to use and how to use them in order to create interesting classes on sports and ethical issues.
- The ABCs of PE: Teaching Across the Curriculum Steve Shelton, Jon Poole, Anna DeVito. The article presents the cross-curricular approach which includes the involvement of other core curriculum subjects such as reading, science, and mathematics into physical education classes.
- The blue skunk blog, A dozen ways to teach ethical and safe technology use The blog gives teachers plenty of tips on ways to teach and promote ethical and safe technology use.
- The children’s sport participation and physical activity study It was a cross-sectional study that used self-report surveys, objective measures of physical activity and qualitative interviews to assess participation in physical activity, physical education, extra-curricular and extra-school sport among 10-18 year olds.
- The Code of Ethics and Good Practice for Children’s Sport, Sports Council for Northern Ireland This is the code of ethics used in Northern Ireland
- The Council for the Teaching Profession in Malta, Teachers’ Code of Ethics and Practice The Code presents the Key Principles, which define the interactions between each individual educator and students, their parents, the authorities and members of other multi-disciplinary teams. The education of the nation’s children has been entrusted in our care and this places all of us, whatever our role is, in a very special position of responsibility which requires of us very high standards of behaviour and conduct.
- The Ethical Leadership Scales The webpage provides possibility for comprehensive reflection about qualities that constitute ethical behaviour and ethical leadership. By using a measuring scale users are able to determine their levels of ethical competence.
- The European fair play movement The site aims to promote fair play and tolerance in the broadest sense (in sports and everyday life) in Europe by supporting its members, helping to promote fair play campaigns where sports organizations take the initiative, co-operating with authorities, communities or parents to foster fair play themes and by facilitating regular contacts between the various European sports organizations.
- The Ga.M.E.S.Net project The project originates from the desire to exchange information and good practice and to compare the models /standards of good practice regarding the awareness and promotion of the traditional sports and games among European subjects and entities at various levels. It focuses in particular on the historical and cultural common origins of the traditional sports and games in Europe, representing a fundamental part of the intangible territorial heritage and an important symbol of the cultural diversity of our societies.
- The Guardian: “Five of the best apps that help teachers communicate with parents” The article presents the best digital tools for getting parents engaged in learning, from instant messages home to performance data at the touch of a button.
- The Heritage Code of Ethics for Educators and Families It sets out a framework for reflection about the ethical responsibilities of early childhood professionals and the standards of behaviour expected of all staff and enrolled families.
- The Inclusion Club – inclusive sport and active recreation for people with disability The website delivers many resources (videos, talks, tips, podcasts , audio-visual articles,) and a blog subpage very useful and inspiring for people dealing with inclusive PE
- The Pros and Cons of Being on a Competitive Youth Sports Team This webpage contains an article about advantages and disadvantages of children’s commitment in a sport club.
- The role of Special Olympics in promoting social inclusion: An examination of stakeholder perceptions This shows the importance to see sport as a mean of social inclusion.
- The Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Forum The Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Forum is dedicated to the main conceptual, philosophical and moral questions that are being raised by these digital developments in the context of sport and physical education.
- The teacher’s corner Get help from, and collaborate with other teachers in multiple teacher forums. The forum is for teachers to share ideas including lessons, equipment, pictures, etc.
- The Top 10 Sports Psychology Articles of 2014 There are top articles about sport psychology providing interesting information e.g. about motivation, goal-setting, mental toughness, balance, and a phenomena of being addicted to exercise.
- Thinking Ethically About Professional Practice in Adapted Physical Activity The paper provides an analysis of the above topic with focus on two themes: disability as subject and reflective instruction. Other publications available on the webpage: Changing Physical Education Teacher Education Curriculum to Promote Inclusion, Thinking ethically about inclusive recreational sport: A narrative of lost dignity.
- Thomas Bjørner, An analysis of habitus among Danish e-sport players Patterns in electronic sport (e-sport) have changed with increasing seriousness and professionalization in competitive activities, patterned behaviours, social structures and institutionalized settings. The aim of this study is to explore some Danish e-sport players’ habitus of e-sport with a special focus on the significant amount of training taking place at home and individual identities displayed through e-sport.
- Tips for Teaching about Keeping a Positive Attitude It’s a webpage of The Wise Skills Program, which is an interdisciplinary teacher-friendly approach to character education and social emotional learning. The materials for teachers include tips and ideas for teachers concerned about educating for character.
- Tips on Exercise & Physical Activity for Persons with Diabetes This webpage is dedicated to people with diabetes, it contains very useful information for PE teachers: tips, videos presenting exercises recommended for people suffered diabetes, information e.g. what exercises to avoid etc.
- Using Classroom Assessment to Promote 21st Century Learning in Emerging Market Countries This paper is about six assessment strategies that should be part of a 21st century learning environment: 1) Rubrics, 2) Performance-based assessments , 3) Portfolios, 4) Student self-assessment, 5) Peer-assessment, 6) Student response systems (SRS)
- Using Technology in K-12 Physical Education Newsletter The newsletter features lots of tips and information on how to integrate technology into PE program.
- Using Technology in Physical Education PELINKS4U, the weekly newsletter focuses on how to integrate technology into physical education.
- Will genetic cyber-athletes come to dominate sports? This article considers ethical dilemmas raised by a vision of sports dominated by genetic interventions. It reflects on the issue of whether athletes should be allowed to use genetic techniques to improve their performance.
- Yoga Dance Therapy Workshop The video available on this webpage provides the trainers with the instructions on yoga dance therapy
Resources for Teachers
- A Goal For The Health (in Italian) Sensitize teenagers to the issue of doping and other social issues in ethical background
- Active Kids Do Better Join The movement to bring physical activity back to our nation's schools
- afPE The Association for Physical Education (afPE) has updated their Health Position Paper which outlines the crucial role of physical education (PE) in public health and the promotion of physical activity
- Anatomy 4D Through this free app and a simple printed image, Anatomy 4D transports students, teachers, medical professionals, and anyone who wants to learn about the body into an interactive 4D experience of human anatomy. Visually stunning and completely interactive, Anatomy 4D uses augmented reality and other cutting edge technologies to create the perfect vehicle for 21st century education.
- Anatomy and Physiology I & II Encompasses all the content from both fields, plus a few pages. It also includes a ton of quizzes and a search feature.
- Anatomy Arcade Anatomy Arcade makes basic human anatomy come ALIVE through awesome free flash games, interactives and videos.
- BBC News Scotland Exercise 'boosts academic performance' of teenagers
- Cardiograph Heart Rate Pulse Measurement using your iPhone & iPad Camera - Track the Cardio Fitness of your Friends and Family
- Communicating with Parents: Strategies for Teachers Teachers should continue to develop and expand their skills in order to make the most of effective communication with parents. This article presents an overview about this topic.
- Data Gathering & Interpretation Logic and Sports
- Dundee Academy of Sport Working with schools
- Dundee Academy of Sport Using Sport as a Context for Learning
- Dundee Academy of Sport, Ryder Cup (Golf) Using Sport as a Context for Learning
- Dundee Academy of Sport, Tour De France Using Sport as a Context for Learning
- Dundee Academy of Sport, Winter Olympics Using Sport as a Context for Learning
- Education Scotland Health and wellbeing across learning
- Education Scotland Health and wellbeing: responsibility of all - Secondary school research project
- Enhancing physical education with technology Some of the “apps” to become a 21st Century Physical Educator
- Essential Skeleton 4 Fully functional, self-contained app covering the essential anatomy of the skeleton. This app is being offered free to demonstrate the groundbreaking 3D technology and innovative design inherent in 3D4Medical's new range of apps.
- European Council (in Italian) recommendations about promotion of physical and healthy activity
- Exercise & Healthy Heart PowerPoint The positive effects of the movement on our body
- Extracurricular Activities: The Sports & School Balance How to find the right balance between sports and school
- Finnish Schools on the Move (only in finnish) Increasing physical activity and decreasing sedentary time among school-aged children
- Flipboard Flipboard is your personal magazine. Used by millions of people every day, it’s a single place to keep up on the news, follow topics you care about and share stories, videos and photos that influence you.
- Free GPS Stores and directs users to waypoints using latitude and longitude coordinates. Free GPS delivers the necessary functionality to utilize the iPhone's built-in GPS in a simple clean interface
- GoPro Makes it easy to control your camera remotely, view your photos and videos and share your favorites.(1) You can adjust camera settings and use your phone or tablet as a viewfinder to frame the perfect shot. Trim videos to create short clips(2) or pull high-quality still images from your videos for easy sharing. HiLight Tag.
- Healthy Nutrition How and why eating healthy
- Heart Master The EDWARDS HEART MASTER app is a state-of-the art educational service intended for physicians and medical students involved in the treatment of heart valve disease. In this edition, dedicated to AORTIC STENOSIS, the user will experience a unique full 3D immersion in the heart anatomy, as well as pathophysiology and treatment of aortic valve stenosis. With HEART MASTER (iPad only) you can now draw and write directly on the 3D animated content, store notes within your picture gallery, and share easily with your peers.
- Hudl Technique, Formerly Ubersense: Slow Motion Video Analysis Athletes and coaches in more than 40 sports use Hudl Technique to improve through slow motion video analysis.
- i-drills The ultimate digital toolbox for the modern coach. Every i-Drills app contains a huge range of features and functions to help get you creating the coaching content you’ve always wanted to. And because they’re built-in, you never need to leave the creative environment of our apps.
- IFL Science Norwegian School To Offer ESports Classes As Alternative To Traditional Sports
- Integrating technology in PE Teaching with Technology
- Itunes, Pe Apps Mobile learning has transformed the classroom, no more so than in the area of Physical Education. PE Apps enables discussion and sharing of best practice related to apps by The PE Geek.
- Kick it Out Second version of its reporting app providing users with the ability to attach video, photo and audio evidence to complaints to help support investigations into discriminatory abuse and behaviour across football.
- Living Lung™ Lung Viewer The Living Lung™ app is compatible with the iPad 2 or newer. Due to extremely high-resolution models and textures, this app is not compatible with the first generation iPads.
- Managing sport Sport in Education Project – SPORT New Zealand
- Math’s and Sport Millennium Mathematics Project
- Motor Skills And Teaching Styles In Physical Education A useful resource about teaching methods
- Movement and health (in Italian) A project of health education through movement
- MyFitnessPal Lose weight with MyFitnessPal, the fastest and easiest-to-use calorie counter for iOS. With the largest food database by far (over 5,000,000 foods) and amazingly fast and easy food and exercise entry, we'll help you take those extra pounds off! And it's FREE! There is no better diet app - period.
- Near poda Must have application for teachers and schools that have access to a set of iPads, iPods, iPhones or Macs for their classes.
- Not Only Fair Play on Twitter Not Only Fair Play is a European Commission funded project promoting PE, sport and physical activity in schools and colleges.
- On line Values (in Italian) Teaching Project of a collective and collaborative editing: "WikiCalcio"
- Parenting: Transferable Skills for Life and Work This workshop is about all the skills that parents use (often unknowingly) that can be used in many different fields of private and working life
- Participation in High School Physical Education --- United States
- PE and development On the role of Physical Education in the development of active lifestyles
- PE APPS The PEGEEK Apps provides a pocket reference guide for the latest apps useful for PE, Sport and Physical Activity
- Physical Acitivy and Health - Practice briefing - children This BHFNC practice briefing suggests practical strategies for promoting physical activity with children aged 6-11.
- Physical Activity & Health Lesson Plan The relationship between physical activity and health with particular reference to the heart and lungs, the importance of healthier lifestyle choices and the impact of inactivity
- Physical Education and Sport at School in Europe A report from the EU
- Polar Beat Sports & Fitness Coach
- Polar Heart Rate Monitors Accessories to improve your sports training
- Positive Effects of Extra Curricular Activities on Students This paper describes the role of extracurricular activities and the positive effects that they can have on students
- Powers of Minus Ten – Bone In this version of POMT, zoom into human bones, see how broken bones heal, and investigate some of the cool and weird cells found in the middle of our most sturdy organs.
- Protecting and improving the nation’s health The link between pupil health and wellbeing and attainment. A briefing for head teachers, governors and staff in education settings
- Research Link / Extracurricular Activities: The Path to Academic Success?
- Science 360 The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 for iPad provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions. Content is either produced by NSF or gathered from scientists, colleges and universities, and NSF science and engineering centers.
- Sport England Sport and Age
- Sport New Zealand Sport in Education Curriculum Resources
- Sports Coach UK Sports coach UK brings you the must-have free-to-download app for anyone who wants to develop and improve their coaching. It's perfect for picking up new ideas to improve your coaching, as you get the chance to learn from coaches in other sports.
- Statistics Calculator Lite In basic statistics, students are required to calculate different statistical measures of a set of numbers. With this app, the following statistical measures will be made available to you after you enter a set of numbers.
- Teamwork Example of life skills used in an effective team work activity.
- TgfU Teaching Games for Understanding - developed to help physical and health education professionals incorporate fun in lessons aimed at keeping children active. TGfU Games PE combines technology, education, and fun to create an environment where children enjoy learning.
- The Effects of Extracurricular Activities on the Academic Performance of Junior High Students
- The Guardian How can PE and sport improve student health and wellbeing? – live chat
- The Guardian Inside the schools fighting childhood obesity with fitness
- The Guardian PE teacher blogs: who should I be reading?
- The Guardian Best practice, advice and insight into how sport can boost students' wellbeing
- The Guardian On your marks: how sports training can boost exam preparation
- The Guardian The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance
- The PEGEEK blog Learn how to use game changing technologies in your PE Classroom
- The Physical Educator.com ThePhysicalEducator.com is an online professional development resource for physical educators
- The role of the movement for young people Physical education, the active lifestyle and physical inactivity in childhood
- Tuscany and sport
- University of Cambridge Arsenal Collection of Math’s and football activities
- Via francigena in Toscany (In Italian) Two Italian pages about experiences connecting health and sport at school
- Want Smarter, Healthier Kids? Try Physical Education! | Paul Zientarski | TEDxBend
- What Are the Benefits of Physical Education in School? About PE at school
- Youth Sports Trust How does physical education and sport impact on academic achievement?
- Youtube.com Free resource that provides an abundance of learning resources that can be used by PE teachers, Sports lecturers and other curricular areas.
Resources for School Directors
- 5 Approaches to Physical Education in Schools The website presents physical education in the context of schooling with different curriculum models.
- 5 Approaches to Physical Education in Schools The website presents physical education in the context of schooling with different curriculum models. Health education in schools: the document gives the perspective of teacher training when it comes to providing quality health education in schools
- A Coach’s Guide to Parental Roles and Responsibilities in Sport The document analyses how trainers and parents can communicate and work together to encourage kids participate in sports activities.
- A fresh approach to integrating core content in Physical Education An example lesson plan, which shows how different kind of knowledge can be integrated in PE activities.
- A guide for forming school health team The document Provides information on the people, who could be involved, actions to be taken, etc.
- A guide how to set up a school health council The website provides step to step guide of setting up a school health council.
- About Values Education School Cluster Projects This site describes the realization of three projects concerning “Values Education School”, It also contains a good number of good practice examples and lesson plans.
- Active Schools A programme designed to encourage children and young people to get active and stay active. A network of managers and coordinators work in every local authority area to increase the number of good quality opportunities for young people to get active.
- An Educational Practices Framework: The Potential for Empowerment of the Teaching Profession This paper outlines new educational policy initiatives that have been recently introduced to Australian schooling contexts and describes the challenges of providing rich and empowering professional development opportunities for classroom teachers .
- Approaches to physical education in schools The document reviews different approaches to PE programs in schools and the skills and knowledge they give to students.
- Assessment in Physical Education This is the chapter 6 of the Physical Education Curriculum Framework and it is states that assessment in PE serves many purposes and contributes to decision making. In order to support this thesis many factors, as for example the different forms of assessment, the teaching – learning – and evaluation process, are taken into account.
- Athletes' training and vocational qualification Individual sport learning paths and related information in Salpaus vocational college, Lahti, Finland
- Awesome Lesson Ideas to Integrate Science Across the Curriculum Examples on how to integrate physical education with science
- Balancing sports and studies (only in Finnish) Web pages for the support of elite athletes: studies, elite sports, career and finishing the sport career
- Behavior change: Physical (in) Activity The report provides an outline of the challenge of enhancing levels of physical activity.
- Being Active, Eating Well: A Resource for ACTION in Peel! Cross curricular PE lesson plans for different grades in schools
- Benefits of the cooperation between schools and sport clubs (only in Finnish) A video clip and case Leppävaara, Espoo (Finland) made by young students for the main TV channel in Finland.
- BMI screening in schools: helpful or harmful An article about the pros and cons of Body mass index screening in schools
- Brent’s Sport and Physical Activity Strategy The document represents a case study of the Brent’s community strategy in integration of sports in schools as well as organizing different physical activities for the period 2010-2015.
- Case studies on “Not Only Fair Play” A collection of interviews with students who explain how they manage to balance sport and education, what support they receive, especially from their parents
- Circulaire n°4951 du 18/08/2014 - Sport et études dans l’enseignement secondaire ordinaire (web site in French) Memorandum by the Ministry of education in French-speaking Belgium presenting the measures provided for students with a status of “elite athlete”, “promising athlete” or “training partner”. These students can replace some of their lessons by hours of training
- Colleges Attract Students With Unique Campus Tours This idea here is to attract students with recreational school tours to give them the desire to come back to school. It works for colleges, it may work for schools. The schools should invest in these tours to bring back early school leaving students. Show them that school goes beyond a simple classroom. Imagine new attractive activities, create groups, promote sport and emphasize on the rules of community life.
- Combining Sports and Learning (only in Finnish) A Finnish survey of how to balance elite sports career and studies by Timo Manninen.
- Comprehensive School physical Activity programs: A guide for Schools This guide is for schools and school districts to develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive physical activity programs. School-age youth should participate in at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day; therefore, schools have a significant role to play in helping students achieve this recommendation. This guide will help schools identify how to establish more active school environments.
- Concept to classroom This video shows how interdisciplinary learning is practiced at the classroom level by individual teachers and a number of schools.
- Creating a Physically Active School Year-Round This document is a guideline with simple steps of analysis, planning, designing physical activity initiatives.
- Cross (Curricular) Fit The document provides information on different kinds of games that can be organized by teachers, integrating different knowledge from other subjects into the PE lessons.
- Cross (Curricular) Fit - A fresh approach to integrating core content in Physical Education An example lesson plan, which shows how different kind of knowledge can be integrated in PE activities.
- Crossing the Curriculum in Physical Education A teacher’s view on how PE can be made cross curricular
- Curriculum Maps The website offers curriculum maps for various subjects, PE included.
- Developing & Sustaining Club-School Links The document explores the benefits of such relationship both for schools and clubs.
- Developing Inclusive Practice: A Role for teachers and teacher Education? This article is about recent developments in inclusive education and the role of teachers.
- Developing School Club Links Step by step guidelines how to develop links between schools and outside sport organizations.
- Dietary guidelines The Dietary Guidelines is source for nutrition advice. These recommendations can help people make healthy food and beverage choices and serve as the foundation for vital nutrition policies and programs.
- Discover EU's Role This site describes the strategic framework of education. It emphasizes the importance of sport to reduce early school leaving and also the role of education and training by promoting entrepreneurship among students.
- Dundee Academy of Sport The Dundee Academy of Sport works alongside colleagues in partner schools to develop a programme of learning opportunities, which link the participation in sport/physical activity to other areas across the school curriculum. Sport can be a vehicle for developing an active learning approach.
- Education and Training The European Commission’s official website
- Educators: Scientific studies document that fitness enhances learning, attention, and behaviour. This article contains guidelines for educators who must help students balance study and sports.
- Effect of school-based interventions on physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents The document aims to summarize recent reviews with the aim of increasing PA or fitness in youth and carry out a systematic review of new intervention studies.
- Establishing school health council Schools should take action to promote a healthy environment for their students, faculty and staff. One way to do this is to create a school health advisory council to assess the school’s health status, make relevant policy recommendations and keep tabs on health-related issues. The council should include students, parents, teachers, administrators, other school staff and community representatives.
- Etudes et sport: comment aider son enfant à concilier les deux? (web site in French) A French article addressed to parents on how to help their child balance sport and education.
- European week of sport The European Week of Sport aims to promote sport and physical activities across Europe. It is for everyone, regardless of age, background or fitness level.
- Evaluation of competences and skills in physical education This is a presentation that is referring to a website: www.evaluering.uvm.dk , defining what challenges exist in developing methods that can be used for evaluation of competences and skills in physical education, and in addition giving some examples of how to evaluate forms of competences and skills that are not easily evaluated.
- Example if good practice: Morning practices for junior students in Finland (only in Finnish) An example of the of the cooperation in sport activities between different school levels and The Metropolitan NOC Elite Sports Academy in Finland
- Example of an PE curriculum The document is an actual PE curriculum, designed so that it can be adjusted for grades 9 to 12.
- Example of good practice: Morning practices for junior students in Finland (only in Finnish) An example of the cooperation in basketball between schools and The Metropolitan NOC Elite Sports Academy in Finland
- Example of home-school cooperation in Tornio (only in Finnish) A case example of the cooperation between school and parents in Tornio, Finland, with supporting documents
- Examples of student surveys supported by WHO The Global School-based student Health Survey
- Examples of student surveys supported by WHO The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey
- Expert Group on Health-enhancing physical activity Recommendations to encourage physical education in schools, including motor skills in early childhood, and to create valuable interactions with the sport sector, local authorities and the private sector
- Expert Groups (EU Work Plan for sport 2014-2017) Health-enhancing physical activity
- Expertise in the promotion of Health enhancing physical activity A set of recommendations for physical activities for children and young people; by UKK Institute in Finland
- Finnish Schools on the Move Increasing physical activity and decreasing sedentary time among school-aged children
- Game On Scotland Using the 2014 Commonwealth Games as a context for learning, the website helped practitioners create engaging learning opportunities for children and young people across Scotland and beyond.
- Get Set to Make a Change Access to rewards and recognition in return for commitment to the programme, including: Meeting an Olympian and a Paralympian - Certificates for your young people - Invitation to an event at the end of the programme - Visits from athletes or invitations to exclusive Olympic and Paralympic events.
- Getting Parents Involved in Physical Education An article providing a teacher’s perspective on how parents can be involved in physical education lessons
- Good practices in everyday school life (only in Finnish) A database and materials for promoting students’ active participation and involvement in schools
- Guide to community use of school sports facilities Guidelines for management of sport facilities at school.
- Health – enhancing physical activity Recommendations to encourage physical education in schools, including motor skills
- Health education in schools From information to empowerment models: the article studies the different approaches in health education
- Help to Create a Wellness Program for your Local Schools This is a step-by-step guide for implementing a new government mandate to improve the diets and exercise habits of students.
- Home-school cooperation in basic education (only in Finnish) Official recommendations for the cooperation between school and parents made by the National Board of Education in Finland
- How clubs can add cooperation with schools? (only in Finnish) Suggestions on how to improve the cooperation between schools and sport clubs, case Vantaa, Finland
- How to involve hard-to-reach parents; encouraging meaningful parental involvement with schools The document is a guide how to effectively involve parents in school activities of different kind.
- How to promote health and wellbeing in vocational training Levels of student participation in VET.
- Increase Physical Activity Opportunities The site contains some tips on how cities and towns can help young people get physical activity they need in many ways.
- Individual sport learning path” in Omnia (only in Finnish) How a young athlete can choose a special learning pathway in vocational education and training.
- Integrating Physical Activity into the Complete School Day Schools can integrate physical activity throughout the school day by scheduling physical activity breaks and including physical activities during academic classes, creating opportunities for students to be active between classes, and providing physical activity before, during, and after school and through organized programs such as intramurals and recess.
- Integrating the disciplines: successful interdisciplinary subjects This article states that Interdisciplinary education must complete disciplinary teaching and learning so students can learn how to respond to challenges that transcend disciplines.
- Knowing Your Land – Environmental Heritage – Trekking Activity Knowing the cultural and natural beauty of the territory of Prato, Tuscany and Italy, planning and carrying out a trekking activity at school, with an experienced guide and the teachers in an inter-disciplinary
- LEARN NC This portal offers examples of interdisciplinary lesson plans.
- Learning Standards and Flexible Learning Environments This article contains some tips concerning the development of flexible learning environments.
- Learning through PE and Sport A link to a document, which is a strategy how to build partnerships between schools and sport clubs, entitled: Learning through PE and sport: A guide to the Physical Education, School Sport and Club Links Strategy. The strategy is downloadable from a link on the left sidebar.
- Lesson plans and activities: Early Adolescence This site is about value education and contains some resources and some suggestions to plan interdisciplinary classes.
- Maison des sportifs (web site in French) Initiative by the Province of Liège, Belgium, to support athlete students who have school difficulties: remedial classes, resource person entirely dedicated to the student, support to the organisation of sport competitions in and outside school.
- Managing School Facilities for Community Use Guidelines for additional use of sport facilities at school.
- Managing Sport Facilities and Major Events The document presents case studies analysis in managing sport facilities and events.
- Mon club mon école Within the framework of the operation “Mon club mon école”, the French-speaking Community of Belgium offers grants to school. It encourages sport clubs to promote their discipline among students, to stimulate new passions and to discover new talents.
- Monitoring and supporting platforms to disengagement youth (only in French) This guide offers many pieces of advice concerning early school leaving, and how it is important to have a good first contact with the young people at risk. It also proposes solutions and ideas to attract students back into school.
- Morning practices for the juniors Special practices in the mornings before school for talented juniors. Schools will give students free time for morning practices, which helps them concentrate on practices and after that they have time for studying.
- Motivation, Disciplined behaviour, Equal Treatment and Dispositional Flow in Physical Education Students The purpose of this study is to analyse the possible relations between dispositional goal orientations, perceived motivational climate, discipline, coeducation and the flow state in physical education students.
- National Sport Day at School This French initiative gathered students, teachers and parents and consisted in sporting and playful activities. The National Sport Day at school paved the way to an entire week dedicated to sport, in association with academic sport federations, sport in firms and the entire sport organisations.
- New Guidance will enhance sports opportunities for students with disabilities This site contains some guidelines thought and planned in order to enhance sports opportunities for students with disabilities
- Opin Ovi projects for developing training A portal of a set of 30 Finnish training projects including guidelines for recognition of prior learning in a Finnish context.
- Opportunity to Learn Guidelines for Elementary, Middle & High School Physical Education Guidelines with key elements in producing high - quality physical education programs to be checked.
- Parent engagement The document provides strategies for Involving parents in school health.
- Physical activity and health in Europe: evidence for action The document shows factors and conditions influence physical activity, also strategies how to encourage physical activity.
- Physical Activity and Nutrition for Health This book will help you promote fitness and nutrition among students and staff, and its nutrition services tools will help you garner support from parents and community members to enhance student success.
- Physical Activity Behaviour: An Overview of Current and Emergent Theoretical Practices Physical activity research has been dominated by traditional cognitive rationale paradigms utilized within other domains. Though this approach to physical activity behavior has greatly enhanced our understanding of the key determinants, it has done little to eradicate the health problems we currently face. In order to achieve lasting change though, multilevel interventions may prove more effective.
- Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children These are a self-administered, 7-day recall instrument. It was developed to assess general levels of physical activity throughout the elementary school year for students in grades 4 to 8 and approximately 8 to 14 years of age.
- Physical activity questionnaires The purpose of this paper was to investigate physical activity questionnaires, and to examine studies of their reliability and validity.
- Physical education & Sport policy for schools The aim of this publication is to guide schools to know the goals and objectives of physical education and sports. It contains some recommendation about the policy to be adopted.
- Physical Education at School in Europe The document Provides information on national strategies, large scale initiatives in integrating sports in education, as well as curriculum analysis and suggestions on how a good PE curriculum to be built
- Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (PECAT) As the name suggest this is an online tool that can help headmasters or teachers evaluate and analyze the physical education curriculum at school – it includes questionnaires, suggestions on how to conduct a special survey
- Physical education framework The document shows PE education framework for classes from primary to secondary school. Focused on the model content standards and supported by current research, the framework emphasizes student learning with the goal of helping every student adopt a physically active lifestyle.
- Physical education lesson plans The website provides a number of examples for physical education lessons plans, which are free to use.
- Physical Education Program Checklist In The Essential Components of Physical Education, SHAPE America outlines the policies and practices that should be in place in school-based physical education programs.
- Physical Education Self-Assessment Checklist California Physical Education Self-Assessment Checklist
- Physical Education: “The future ain’t what it used to be!” Analysis of PE development and curricula approaches.
- Practical strategies for promoting physical activity Identifying and using strategies that are both effective and cost-effective is important to ensure efficient use of available resources and funding. This briefing brings together the available research evidence as well as practical strategies to outline recommended approaches and actions for effectively promoting physical activity in children up to 12 years.
- Practical strategies for promoting physical activity Identifying and using strategies that are both effective and cost-effective is important to ensure efficient use of available resources and funding. This briefing brings together the available research evidence as well as practical strategies to outline recommended approaches and actions for effectively promoting physical activity in children up to 18 years.
- Premiere Sports In 2013 Premiere Sport launched the Inspire Programme, an initiative delivered by qualified sports professionals. It offers schools tailor made suites of sport and activity options targeted towards achieving curriculum outcomes. It is designed to be inclusive, with complete activity structures to engage all pupils, from those not normally inspired by sport, through to the budding stars of the future.
- Programme “Sport-études” curriculum in French-speaking Belgium (web site in French) Detailed curriculum of the “Sport-études” section in Catholic secondary schools of French-speaking Belgium.
- Promoting healthy youth Guidelines on how to work with the schools and the community in order to support physical activities and healthy living.
- Promoting healthy youth, schools and communities A guidelines for health councils. It provides information on the approaches of how to set up a health council and how to manage it successfully.
- Promoting physical activity in schools The documents illustrate how selected health issues can serve as entry points in planning, implementing, and evaluating health interventions as part of the development of a health-promoting school.
- Promoting sport and enhancing health in European Union This is a “policy content analysis to support action”
- Promotion of sports in Finnish VET Cultural and Sports Association of Finnish Vocational Education and Training: The promotion of sports in vocational training in Finland is the major task of SAKY Ry. It gives useful advice and concrete examples as well as event for the use of VET teachers and students.
- Public health network The Networks are for all individuals, organisations and sectors with a role to play in improving nutrition and levels of physical activity in Wales. They support members by providing and improving access to information and by providing a forum for sharing knowledge and good practice, enabling members to learn from each other.
- Research at LIKES Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences provides scientific information in order to enhance physical activity
- Safe and welcoming school (only in Finnish) From a European project to an everyday work for improving the school conditions in Mikkeli, Finland
- Safeguards in health surveys in schools The website provides step by step safeguard guidelines on what schools have to take specific precautions on, when it comes to surveying the health status of children.
- School Flexibility Options This site offers examples of “School Flexibility Options” carried out in order to improve students’ outcomes.
- School health guidelines The page provides access to synthesized research and best practices related to promoting healthy eating and physical activity in schools, culminating in nine guidelines.
- School policy framework Document analyzing school policies in terms of PE, with attention to joint work with different stakeholders from outside of the school.
- Schools and Club Athletics Guide to the support and resources available for delivering athletics to children and young people in schools and clubs
- Skill flexibility and school change The study investigates skill flexibility among teachers in the context of school change in nine countries
- Skills for Health The document is guidelines on skills-based health education including life skills: an important component of a child-friendly/health-promoting school.
- Social-ecological model to physical education The document is a guidelines to components of social-ecological models: (individual, social environment, physical environment and policy); the relationship between the multiple levels of influence and physical activity.
- Sport élite” section at Collège Sainte-Véronique Collège Sainte-Véronique in Liège, Belgium, offers students the possibility to combine a curriculum in their chosen option (Latin, mathematics, sciences, economics…) and the intensive practice of their sport thanks to an adapted timetable to follow all the courses.
- Sport facilities and equipment management in school A study of good practices in sport facilities management at schools
- Sport in Society” This article echoes sociologist Jay. J. Coakley’s book: Coakley says that students “who play varsity sports (…) generally have better grade point average, more positive attitudes towards school, more interest in continuing their education…” The article also offers key steps to be organized and find balance between study and sports.
- Sport.fi Website for giving information about the studying possibilities for athletes, presentation of sport schools, etc.
- Sportez-vous bien Event organised by the city of Brussels at the National stadium (“King Baudouin Stadium”) addressed to 6th primary school (11-12 years old) pupils and aimed to tight sport and healthy nutrition. 1440 pupils participate in sport activities and visit a “health village”. They are informed about various topics such as the importance of healthy nutrition, how to brush one’s teeth, the danger of smoking, fair play
- Sports and science Giving ideas of science projects related to sports this initiative gives students notions on how to use their science knowledge to be better in sports while promoting the importance of sports in terms of health.
- Sports Science Fair Project Ideas The initiative offers science fair projects ideas related to various sport disciplines. It shows there are many interesting ways to apply science to sports. It shows the importance of science knowledge in sports and shows sports as an activity that has a lot to do with how school students learn. The initiative promotes also the importance of sports in terms of health.
- Sports-studies” section at Athénée Royal Liège Atlas (web site in French) This secondary school in Liège, Belgium, offers three sports-studies sections: basketball, football and physical education. While respecting educational criteria, these sections propose eight hours per week of sport (besides the regular two hours of physical education).
- Strategic framework – Education & Training 2020 This part of the website shows the importance of social inclusion and states the objectives of the European Union concerning this issue, that are: promoting social cohesion and active citizenship.
- Students' right for participation (only in Finnish) Participation of the students in curriculum work is a legally based right for all students in Finland.
- Study Guides and Strategies One goal is to help students become aware of how they use their time
- Support with time management This link contains some useful tips to make time management easier.
- Teacher education for inclusion – International Literature Review The review considers the policy framework needed to facilitate the changes required in teacher education to support the move towards a more inclusive education system.
- Teaching evaluation forms The website provides tools for evaluation of PE teachers’ work.
- Ten Strategies for Schools to Promote Physical Activity and Healthy Eating The guidelines provide information on how schools can encourage pupils be more physically active
- The Construction of Physical Education Curriculum Assessment System Based on Computer Evaluation Technology The paper offers analysis on how computer evaluation technology can be used for PE curriculum assessment.
- The Role and Responsibilities of the Physical Education Teacher in the School Physical Activity Program An article that suggest specific activity from the PE teacher in terms of developing additional skills in students, in addition to the motor and other PE skills.
- The wellness impact This report is about the importance of the role which school play in increasing physical activity and in creating an environment that enriches students’ readiness to learn.
- Time management This guide contains some tips for more effective personal time management.
- Time management This link contains a short video on time management.
- Towards A Differentiated, Holistic and Systemic Approach to Parental Involvement in Europe for Early School Leaving, by DR. Paul Downes. This paper analyses the role of parents in early school leaving but also the “ideal position (of the municipalities) as a mediating space for dialogue between schools, parents and students.”
- Vocational education and training credit system (only in Finnish) An article of the ECVET system published in the website of Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture
- Wellbeing in schools in Finland, slide presentation (only in Finnish) Hietanen-Peltola: healthy and safe school environment and the well-being of the school community
- WHO information series on school health This document is part of the WHO Information Series on School Health prepared for WHO’s Global School Health Initiative and the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. Its purpose is to strengthen efforts to educate young people about the benefits of physical activity and to help schools provide opportunities for students and school personnel to be physically active.
- Why Tackling Early School Leaving in Cities Matters This paper shows the importance of cooperation and communication between schools and municipalities.
- Winning Students A scholarship to: support talented student athletes to progress along the performance pathway in their sport; enhance the levels of success of talented student athletes in international competitions; enhance the extent and quality of partnership working between governing bodies of sport and education sectors; enhance the capability of the education sectors to support and cater for the needs of talented student athletes as flexibly as possible.
- World-wide Survey of School Physical Education The Document shows findings on physical education curricula and programs around the world, with suggestions of how to integrate sports in the school curricula in a good way.
- Young offenders pilot program: Early school leavers project This paper underlines the importance of the inclusion of family members, but also of significant adults (that sometimes can be teachers) to support the young person and calls for the establishment of advisory groups.
- Young people: Practical strategies for promoting physical activity The purpose of this briefing is to provide commissioners, physical activity and health professionals and school staff with evidence-based recommendations and practical strategies to consider when planning, developing and delivering activities to promote physical activity in young people, ie, those aged 11-18 years old.