Physical Education Teachers

2. Cooperation with other subject teachers

The second step highlights the role that sport plays in our lives. Physical activity is vital to the holistic development of young people, fostering their physical, intellectual, social and emotional health. The benefits of sport go beyond the duration of a class at school. Sports play a great role in advancing education and in enhancing knowledge. This step provides useful tips and links as to how to integrate physical movement into various subject areas: language arts, math, science, ICT, music, literature, history, geography and social studies. You will get familiar with ways PE teachers cooperate with other colleagues for the benefit of their students. For example, PE teachers collaborate with their colleagues, teachers of Geography, when organizing and managing orientation games (establishing the itinerary and tasks).
PE teachers collaborate with their colleagues, teachers of Biology in order to organize themed outings (guided tours: observing plants that grow in the woods, bird watching etc.)
They also collaborate with teachers of the Literature and History in order to organize trips on history or literary topics.
They also collaborate with IT, Music and Art teachers when promoting and advertising sport events and their results or advertising best practice examples and creating networks. The aim is to find the ways of benefitting from their knowledge and possibilities

Learning Objective

The learning objective of this step is to raise PE teachers’ awareness about the role that physical education plays in our life and enable them to integrate physical movement into various subject areas: language arts, math, science, ICT, music, literature, history, geography and social studies, with the help of their colleagues.

Online Resources

• Daily physical activity: a handbook for grades 1–9 schoolsIt 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).
• PAPE toolkitThe toolkit supports the cross-curricular integration of lessons which will help students to see connections among the subject areas and provide opportunities for teachers to work together by providing useful tips and links as to how to integrate physical movement into various subject areas: language arts, math, science and social studies
  Energizers:www.ncpe4me.com/energizers.html;
  Take Ten: www.take10.net.
• The children’s sport participation and physical activity studyCSPPA 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 ABCs of PE: Teaching Across the CurriculumSteve 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.
• Marques, A.; Holzweg, M.; Scheuer, C.; Repond, R.; Correia, C.; Espírito Santo, R.; Onofre, M., Extracurricular sports in European schools: A descriptive study, 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).
• Physical Education and Sport at School in EuropeChapter 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.