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Using Your State Organization to Advocate for Expanded Physical Education Opportunities
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Orendorff, Karie Lee; Egan, Cate A. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2023
In Montana, SHAPE Montana Board members saw the reduction and replacement of physical education with traditional classroom time and decided to spring into action. Collectively, they leveraged their state organization (SHAPE Montana) and created an advocacy program called "The 150 Program" to promote the importance of physical education…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, Elementary School Students, Advocacy
Influence of Activity Monitor Location and Bout Duration on Free-Living Physical Activity
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Heil, Daniel P.; Bennett, Gary G.; Bond, Kathleen S.; Webster, Michael D.; Wolin, Kathleen Y. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2009
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of the location (ankle, hip, wrist) where an activity monitor (AM) is worn and of the minimum bout duration (BD) on physical activity (PA) variables during free-living monitoring. Study 1 participants wore AMs at three locations for 1 day while wearing the Intelligent Device for Energy…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Equipment, Athletics, Evaluation Methods
Integrating Physical and Health Education into One Course: Is It Working in Montana?
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Sondag, K. Ann; And Others – Physical Educator, 1997
This study investigated the impact of Montana's initiative to combine health and physical education into one secondary course, noting instructors' preparation to teach health education. Surveys of secondary teachers in Montana's Health Enhancement curriculum (which combined health and physical education outcomes) revealed minimal support for…
Descriptors: Health Education, High Schools, Integrated Curriculum, Physical Education
Health Education and Physical Education: Revisiting the Combined Discipline Approach.
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Hanson, C. L.; LeRoy, C. H. – Health Educator: Journal of Eta Sigma Gamma, 1996
Reviews the relationship of health education and physical education, which during the past three decades have increasingly become independent disciplines. Presents current issues related to mergers of the disciplines, highlighting Montana's health enhancement curriculum, and provides recommendations for professional preparation programs. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Professional Preparation of High School Coaches: The Problem Continues.
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Stewart, C. Craig; Sweet, LaWana – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1992
Montana high school coaches were surveyed regarding coaching, playing and teaching experience, education, current knowledge, and situation. Only half had physical education degrees, few had current coursework, most had more playing than coaching experience, only 31 percent taught physical education, and most coached because they loved it. (SM)
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Career Choice, High Schools, Higher Education
Transdisciplinary Personnel Preparation for Special Physical Education in Rural/Remote Montana.
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Powers, P. J. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1990
A University of Montana graduate program used an interdisciplinary approach to train rural special physical educators. Program elements included a basis in the notion of universal excellence, interdisciplinary student recruitment, metacognition training, rural transfer and adaptation strategies, and establishing rural school districts as practicum…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Physical Education Teachers