Joey Feith is the founder of ThePhysicalEducator.com. Having taught elementary physical education for 10 years, Joey is now focused on helping physical educators grow their confidence and competence as teachers.
Earlier in the year, we completed a fitness unit in class that put an emphasis on goal setting. The students were taught about the different components of fitness (i.e. muscular...
Over the last few weeks I have been teaching an iPad-charged dance unit in my elementary Physical Education classes. The unit went really well, so I thought it would be...
I wrote a blog post a while back about getting a bunch of #PEGeeks together to crowdsource a Survivor themed leadership unit. After a lot of teachers provided feedback, ideas,...
Its Nutrition Month at my school so I thought it would be fun to create an infographic for it. Click here to view a larger version of the infographic.
Facebook just recently launched Timelines for Pages which, as you may have guessed, brings Timelines (Facebook’s virtual timeline of your life) to Brand Pages (Facebook’s online space for brands). Why...
A while back, I blogged about how I use my iPad to create my Physical Education lesson plans. However, that’s not all I use it for. We just completed our...
After a week of designing, sharing, discussing, and voting, we have finally decided on the official #PEGeeks logo and icon. Thanks to everyone who took the time to take part...
A few nights ago, I was toying around with the idea of designing a logo/icon to represent the #PEGeeks hashtag. For those of you who are not on Twitter, the...
I’m currently wrapping up a fitness unit with my elementary students. During the unit, the students were taught the components of fitness, what physical tests to perform to evaluate their...
When I was in University, so much emphasis was placed on lesson/unit planning. Don’t get me wrong, I think planning is an extremely important part of the teaching process. It...
For the past few weeks, I have been working on a behaviour management system that I am calling the Responsibility Badges in Physical Education. The idea behind this system comes...
One of the request I receive the most when I show people the resources we create for ThePhysicalEducator.com is for Lesson Plans. Today, I’d like to officially state that I’m...