Advocacy in Physical Education
Welcome!
This course is offered as part of Human Kinetics Teacher Professional Development. It is an online, self-paced experience with an instructor, and assignments can be completed at your convenience.
This course is worth 6 professional development hours, and you will receive a certificate upon successful completion. There is no graduate credit or CEU credit for this course.
We hope you will find this course valuable and enjoyable. If you have any questions, please email us at CE@hkusa.com.
Best of luck!
PE Central and Human Kinetics Professional Education
Audience
PE teachers at all instructional levels and physical education teacher education (PETE) students.
Course Description
This course provides PE teachers with a resource that will give them the information, data, strategies, and confidence they need to advocate for high-quality physical education taught by qualified PE teachers. It covers not only the why but also the how of advocacy. As a by-product, the course also intends to create a sense of community among PE teachers, who sometimes feel detached within their schools or districts due to their unique content or location in the building. Participants will learn from the course content itself, but they will also be able to engage with other participants through message board posts built into the course.
Course Goals
By the end of this course, you will be able to do the following:
- Confidently advocate for your PE program and profession
- Identify your own why and motivation for teaching PE
- Develop your personal elevator pitch—a brief statement of your mission for teaching PE and teaching philosophy
- Learn how to inform parents, PTA members, and community stakeholders about the value of your PE program
- Know how and why administrator support is important, and develop your own letters to administrators
- Create supportive partnerships with educators outside of your PE program
- Discover data points that should be measured, learn how to measure and analyze them, and find out how to present the data to stakeholders
- Explore places to secure funding for PE programs and learn about grant writing
- Consider ways to lead and support PE advocacy within your school district
Your Instructor
Dustin is a full-time physical education teacher with over 15 years of teaching experience, both in the US and abroad. Dustin’s teaching experience focuses mostly on elementary (PreK-Grade 5) but also includes experience teaching and leading secondary students as well as adults. Dustin continues his work outside of the classroom as the author of The New PE Teacher’s Handbook (available in paperback and ebook), which offers guidance for both new and experienced PE teachers, covering job hunting, creating and elevating your PE program, as well as 80 ready-to-use lesson plans. Dustin has also written for various blogs on the topics of international education, physical education, and action sports. Other professional development courses through PE Central authored by Dustin include; Tinikling: Philippine Folk Dance for Fitness and Team Building, Add International Flair to PE with these 5 Modified Games and Bringing Tech & Library Sciences into PE