Move to Learn: Incorporating Movement in the Classroom   

Learn about the benefits of incorporating movement into your classroom lessons to support student learning and management. You will explore the benefits that physical activity can have on your students' academic and emotional well-being and acquire specific ideas for incorporating movement into your lessons.

In this course, you will explore the importance of movement in the classroom and the impact it can have not just on a student's physical health but on mental well-being and academic performance as well. You will learn about specific ways to incorporate movement into your specific content area by analyzing various physical activities across a variety of categories.

You will be provided with a guide for planning and implementing these physical activities into upcoming lessons using our GETUP guide. This guide provides activity ideas for games, energy breaks, team building, utilization of space, and physical challenges. Regardless of the content area that you teach, you will walk away with practical ideas to implement into an upcoming lesson.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Mac: macOS 12 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Microsoft Word Online
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
• Editing of a Microsoft Word document is required in this course. You may use a free version of Microsoft Word Online, or Google Docs if you do not have Microsoft Office installed on your computer. Model Teaching can provide support for this.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

1. Move to Learn Course Content
   1. The video and article will provide you with specific ideas for incorporating movement into your lesson activities. The course also includes some "Reflect or Discuss" prompts to help you connect with the course content and ends with a "Try This Task" to guide you explicitly on how you might implement the ideas into the classroom.
2. Quiz
   1. You will answer questions related to physical activity and its impact on student learning. Quizzes are automatically scored and provide feedback on answer choice rationale.
3. Implementation Reflection
   1. The reflection prompt requires you to plan for use of the "try this task" by either reflecting on the content yourself or discussing them with the colleague. You will then discuss a new concept you can attempt to implement in the future based on something you learned in the course.
4. Considerations for Implementation
   1. This short statement helps you reflect on your ideas and assess whether you might be successful in your implementation.
5. Videos and Further Reading
   1. Additional content suggestions are provided to enhance and expand your understanding of movement in the classroom.

What you will learn

• Understand why physical activity in a lesson can be beneficial to student learning
• Analyze specific ideas for movement strategies in your lessons
• Evaluate considerations for implementing movement into your lesson planning

How you will benefit

• You will experience improved classroom behaviors when students have a structured way of experiencing physical activity throughout the class day
• Your students will become more engaged in the lesson content you teach
• Your lessons will become more dynamic and innovative as you think more creatively about how to combine your lesson activities with movement