Top 7 Strategies to Keep Physical Education Students Actively Engaged

Keeping your students motivate throughout thesportsmanship in the class.
entire school year is a difficult task for a physical3. If your class behaves and participates well
education teacher. Providing some variety in thethroughout a particular unit, at the end of that unit
lessons and giving students moments to lookreward the class by letting them have one gym
forward to will keep students eager to learn andclass in which as a class can play a game they
stay motivated to participate. As classroomhave enjoyed from a previous unit.
teaching and physical education teaching methods4. Research new and unique games which
can differ, bringing back teaching methodologiesstudents have never played, but you know they
that are known to keep students interested andwould really enjoy. Introduce this game when
focused are being used more in within PE andyour students have behaved and deserve it.
coaching settings. Below are 7 ideas to provide5. Create a variety of different award certificates
variety to a physical education class and keepat the beginning of the school year that
students coming to class happy and optimisticexemplifies model behavior. At the end of the
about learning new skills and activities.school year give each student that fit into one of
1. Give mini trophies at the end of the school yearthose behaviors a certificate. You can have
or at the end of physical education units to thecertificates for participation, skill, preparedness,
students who have participated and preformedleadership, sportsmanship, etc.
their very best throughout the school year.6. Reward students who follow the rules and
2. Give stickers out at the end of the class to theconsistently behave with bonus points to help
students who participated and demonstratedimprove their grade.