Role Modeling: The Forgotten Part of Elementary School Physical Education

Role modeling is a powerful teaching tool. With the skills, talents and attitudes teachers possess or lack, they are one of the key, perhaps the most important, building blocks of the educational system. Teachers who take pride in being physically active and demonstrate motor skills during physical education lessons can influence school children positively. The purpose of this article is to communicate the importance of “teacher as a role model” in physical education. It seems, however, that in our schools, role modeling can be a forgotten element of teaching. Hence, this is an issue that deserves further consideration and discussion.