Description of the video:
A teacher talks to a class of students huddled in a fitness area. Teach Wellness displays over the video.
A yoga instructor demonstrates a pose to a studio full of participants.
Two teenagers kick a soccer ball on a field. Inspire Movement appears on the screen.
In a one-on-one setting, an instructor walks a young student through a series of stretches.
A young girl is shown a proper swim stroke by her coach.
In a weight room, a man uses the leg press machine. Transform Lives pops up on the video.
The same man is shown receiving coaching from a trainer while others also observe.
While swimming with floating aids an adult helps a beginner-level swimmer go from side-to-side of the pool.
An aerial view of the Indianapolis skyline and IUPUI campus is shown.
Physical education teachers transform lives. For some children, they’re the first adults to promote healthy, active lifestyles.
Our program for preparing physical education teachers was the nation's first, meets all standards of the Indiana Department of Education, and is founded on the guidelines of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
You’ll earn an all-grade Indiana teacher’s license for physical education, and you’ll have many options for student teaching.
Graduates are landing jobs right out of school at places such as:
However, you can find our program graduates throughout the state and beyond in a variety of cities and rural destinations. Health and physical education teachers are needed in schools everywhere.
You love movement, and our physical education program dates back to the Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union in 1866. Meaning, you'll be able to channel your passion as part of the most historic program on the IU Indianapolis campus and the nation's first physical education program.
You'll have many opportunities to teach pre-K through grade 12 students before you graduate. During your final semester, you get to be the teacher as you participate in student teaching and apply your years of classroom knowledge and hands-on experiences.
Your degree prepares you to promote youth physical activity and wellness, and enables you to determine what age group you impact. As a graduate, you'll be dually licensed in physical and health education and be able to teach at all grade levels in Indiana.
When you start your career in the field, you'll make a difference by shaping youth's lives through physical and health education.
In addition to becoming teachers, our graduates also serve as team coaches and after-school program directors. Many are promoted to principal and other administrative school positions. You might also direct a youth camp or youth sports organization.
