Online Physical Education Master Teacher

Maximize student learning in the PE classroom

Physical education teachers help students understand how to incorporate fitness and healthy choices into daily life, along with the reasons behind them. This online pedagogy emphasis focuses on the pedagogical skills you need to enhance your physical education teaching effectiveness within elementary, middle or secondary school settings. You will build connections and gain teaching techniques and resource ideas from other PE teachers in the program as well as from faculty with extensive pedagogical expertise. The program will prepare you to develop a curriculum and integrate technologies that make PE more accessible, fun and useful for students while staying within the budget of your school or district.

Although this program does not qualify for a physical education teaching endorsement, UNK offers physical education endorsement programs that can be taken concurrently.

Prerequisites: Bachelor’s degree and a teaching certificate

Make PE accessible to all students

Gain a deep understanding of special population students and how to facilitate their inclusion, participation and engagement within the physical education classroom. The Special Populations emphasis within this online master’s program will help you identify the challenges of children with physical or other disabilities and how to develop or change your curriculum to maximize their learning and active involvement. You will learn to create individualized plans for students that can be taught within the same classroom setting as well as how to keep learners on task with activities, utilize assistive technologies within physical education and integrate your curriculum into a class with general population students.

This program emphasis leads to an endorsement in Adapted Physical Education issued by the Nebraska Department of Education. Students pursuing an endorsement outside of Nebraska should check with the Department of Education in their state.

Although this program does not qualify for a physical education teaching endorsement, UNK offers physical education endorsement programs that can be taken concurrently.

Prerequisites: Bachelor’s degree and a teaching certificate