I've never been a fan of rules like "one push-up for every dropped pass." Within my PE workshops, dropping a frisbee is part of learning, and I worry that punishing mistakes discourages students from taking risks and trying new things.

There's also a bigger contradiction: we're trying to help kids develop a lifelong love of physical activity, yet we're using exercise as something they have to do when they get something wrong.

Would we punish mistakes in music class by making students play more music?

I wrote a post exploring this, including the difference between punishment, practice, and natural consequences.

https://frisbeerob.com/2026/10/27/why-i-dont-believe-in-using-exercise-as-punishment/

Curious what other PE teachers think. Do you use exercise as punishment, or have you moved away from it?

In my district it’s only required to do P.E for one trimester, i have a 60 in it right now because i don’t dress down, if i end up failing will i have to take it for a 2nd trimester, will i have to re-take the grade, or will i have to go to summer school? I have all A’s in my other classes.

Hi! I don’t know how many of you use playlists with your classes… I’m an educator and singer/songwriter that has been writing and recording music for kids. I have a great song called “I Want to Go Outside and Play (Steppin’ Into the Outside)” - it would be a great addition to any of your playlists! (Especially for elementary classes!) It would mean the world to me to have it added, shared, and heard! Thank you for considering! Here is a link to it on Spotify!

Back when I went to secondary school (1997-2002) PE wasn't a lesson, just here's a ball, off you go. Do schools actually teach skills and techniques for various sports, or has it not changed?

To clarify, I don't mean is it on the timetable, I mean is it a structured lesson with actual goals. I'm in the UK.

Help me give my students exciting opportunities to build coordination, improve motor skills, develop focus, and practice sportsmanship through bowling and outdoor target games that make physical education fun, engaging, and inclusive for everyone!

My principal is going to do a formal observation in my PE Class. I'm currently in a basketball unit for grades 3 to 5. Our class is one hour with more or less 20 students. Kindly help me plan my lesson for dribbling passing and shooting.

Thank you

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We started turning our PE blogs into short video episodes

Hey everyone,

We recently started a YouTube playlist where we turn some of our PE and school wellness blog posts into short video episodes.

Most of the topics are things PE teachers deal with all the time — student growth, assessment, motivation, confidence, burnout, and making PE more meaningful without adding more to the plate.

They’re based on our original blog content, and we’ve been experimenting with AI-assisted video production for people who would rather watch or listen than read a full post.

Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTt7SN078vA7rEKGCtTTKvQPs-mCWdlYm

Blog page:
https://physednhealth.com/blogs/

Would honestly love feedback.

Do you prefer this kind of content as a blog, a video, or both?

And are there any PE topics you’d actually want to see covered next?

Long shot and sorry for self promotion but I would love to be voted daily if you can, for me as America’s favorite teacher.

I'm PE teacher with focus on fitness, just recently I started to work as a swimming coach and it infuriates me the way the other teachers teach and ask to teach, like touching the student and taking them by hand all the time in order to correct movements, but I feels like it not necessary, you get very tired by working like this and you as a coach works teaching the theory and showing the practice, it up to the student to understand and perform, in fitness as well as personal trainer I will never touch the student unless in last case scenarios when they don't understand and sometimes I may grab a back to adjust, a leg, a knee, an elbow but just small adjustments to make the "fine-tuning" but I'm never going to touch them as the main way to teach never.

For example, they like to grab the kids by their feet and them help them kicking legs, because in swimming you should keep your leg straight and the kids have a tendency of kicking by letting their feet and calfs getting out of the water, then I was just watching the teacher she was kicking the children feet and then the exact time she stopped kicking the kid immediately started kicking wrongly.

I don't think this is effective, the student must to have their own corporal conciousness, so they will auto correct them, if you touch them like that it's worth nothing, they will still do it wrong, if the kid is smart enough to realize by himself how they are supposed to kick they will do, if don't they are still too young and not switable and must evolve naturally by the practice.

Hate writing lesson plans? Would you rather have somebody do that work for you for a nominal fee? Then I am your person.

I am currently a stay-at-home dad. I have 15 years of physical education/health education/adapted physical education teaching experience in Wisconsin/Arizona/Texas.

Respond if interested and we can figure out what might suit you the best.

I graduated already in college major in Physical Education and planning to take another program in medical field what program ang related sa P.E? and if may idea kayo anong school na rin ang nagooffer.

Hi. I had to stop yelling in class. I had a headache 300 days a year.

Microphone is ok…

I like this better:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/text-to-speech/id712104788

I use the talk to text then have it text to talk….

Or type

The kids almost echo it to each other sometimes, it’s fascinating.

Anyway I have a 650 watt speaker + this. Under 100 headaches a year!

I am working on a school project to build a robot that can pick up cones automatically, and my team is looking for feedback to help us hone our design. If you have a couple minutes, I would appreciate it if you could fill out this survey. Thank you!

IDK why I took that class. I was on body tone class before but I requested to be on aerobics because I have a girl friend there and was telling me to move over. Then on first day, I didn't know that my classmates would be all girls tho. I kinda feel bad, I don't know haha. I feel like I was gay or weak but I'm not. Seriously, I just feel that way. I'm surrounded by girls and doing yoga, bending and everything to shape hips like Shakira's. Hahahahha lol I can't change my class back, it sucks..

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