EDPE 511 - Shaping Authentic PE Instruction in the 21st Century

PE teachers play an essential role in providing students with the knowledge and skills they need to engage in a lifetime of health and fitness. A high-quality PE program offers students more than just skill development and physical activity; it also emphasizes student learning in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning domains.

In this course, you will gain the resources you need to create and implement a high-quality PE program that aligns with the SHAPE America National Standards. You’ll examine best practices for implementing direct instruction, feedback, management, and observation; for using Bloom’s Taxonomy to develop your students’ cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills; and for incorporating simple to complex tasks that will build students’ abilities in PE. You’ll also acquire the strategies you need to advocate for, design, modify, implement, and assess effective PE instruction that addresses the needs of students of all learning and physical abilities.

Using the techniques and resources from this course, you’ll be able to create authentic PE activities that will engage your students, motivate them to participate in PE, and develop their mental, emotional, and physical skills.

NOTE: If you have taken the Advancement Courses online course, Let’s Move! Authentic PE Instruction for the 21st Century, we advise you not to take this course, as its contents are similar. You may, instead, take one of our other courses in PE.