Conference Theme: Community Building and Development through Physical Education and Sports”. One option for public schools is “Yoga Fitness” or “Stretch and Breathe Classes.” At the very least, our children will learn to be fit, focus on their studies, and deal with daily stress. Sports require training, mental and physical preparation, and help build self-confidence.

General Statement of Duties: The Physical Education Teacher demonstrates appropriate teaching techniques for the instruction of physical education and health. By injecting alternative PE activities that are related to stress-reducing results and SEL-enhancing experiences, schoolchildren may begin to put their screens away and their online gaming habits on hold.

Some states even require that Physical Education teachers are also certified as Health teachers. Physical education in high school is essential to the development of motor skills and the enhancement of reflexes. Health and Physical Education is the key learning area in the curriculum that focuses explicitly on developing movement skills and concepts students require to participate in physical activities with competence and confidence.

The second stage involved the development of a detailed draft of the teacher training program. The present article outlines the protocol of a trial in which PE teachers will be trained to support autonomous motivation toward leisure-time physical activity in lower-secondary school students (the PETALS trial).

The in Physical Education is one of the most popular undergraduate programmes in the University of Limerick. Graduates of the programme are qualified to teach Physical Education and their second subject to Leaving Certificate level. Physical activity behaviour will be collected from a subsample of students from the intervention and wait-list control groups using accelerometers for the week after the pre-trial data collection occasion.