Best Practices

The free resources below are designed to help students build relationships, routines, and a love of health-enhancing physical activity. They are designed to provide OPEN members with outcomes-based resources focused on engaging students in learning with positive communication and instructional flexibility. Like all OPENPhysEd.org resources, these files are meant to be guiding models that [...]

Physical Education The OPEN Priority Learning Outcomes for Physical Education provide instructional focus through the lens of 4 umbrella standards and 16 instructional strands with 1 grade-level outcome per strand. This means that physical educators can now focus their planning to help students meet 16 learning outcomes per year with a [...]

The Professional Responsibilities resources are designed to provide OPEN members with resources focused on communicating with families and community members, and growing and developing professionally. Like all OPENPhysEd.org resources, these resources are meant to be guiding models to best meet the needs of your professional path. OPEN contributors and national trainers continue to work [...]

The Instructional resources are designed to provide OPEN members with outcomes-based resources focused on engaging students in learning with positive communication, effective discussion, instructional flexibility, and responsiveness. Like all OPENPhysEd.org resources, these files are meant to be guiding models that can assist teachers best meet the needs of students within their teaching environment. OPEN [...]

The Classroom Environment resources are designed to provide OPEN members with tools and resources focused on creating a positive learning environment for all students. Download and customize tools for establishing class culture, managing class procedures and routines, as well as organizing the physical space in your physical education classroom. OPEN contributors and national trainers [...]

The Planning and Preparation resources are designed to provide OPEN members with outcomes-based resources focused on quality curriculum implementation. Like all OPENPhysEd.org resources, these files are meant to be guiding models and should be customized to best meet the needs of your students and teaching environment. For example, the curriculum maps are created based [...]

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