The Role of Physical Educators in Helping Classroom Teachers to Promote Physical Activity

Abstract

Elementary classroom teachers are an increasingly important constituency in school-based physical activity promotion. This article situates the need for classroom teacher physical-activity promotion at the intersection of what we know about teacher actions, what informs those actions, and what recent research has uncovered. Recommendations are provided for ways in which physical education teacher educators and inservice physical education teachers can help classroom teachers to promote physical activity among their students.