curriculum
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Day 20: Region Challenge Unit
Region Challenge Unit Recently our team came together to discuss eLearning in the run up to the end of the year. With Week 15 or 16 starting this week, and with a changed school calendar to accomodate changes with breaks, holidays and assessment, we had to revamp our current plans with something different. We have noticed students dropping off in engagement and we wanted to try and bring them back in and not overwhelm them or their families. We also have a very small number of students returning to school, and wanted to think about how to grow their communities and give them things they could do together within the…
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PHASE-AP 2019
This year I have been very excited to return to Hong Kong and to HKIS to present at the PHASE-Asia Pacific Conference. I want to thank all those who came along to my sessions for their energy and willingness to engage in a learning conversation with others for the great questions and dialogue that we have shared as a group. I am always interested in how these sessions can be more relevant and meaningful to those who come along – please do feel free to share with me here or by email or on twitter (or in-person). These are the links to the resources that I shared either in my…
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PE Institute 2019 Asheville – Workshop Notes – Striking and Fielding – a game centred approach
This blog post shares resources with participants who came to my S&F workshop on Monday 22nd July in Asheville, NC, USA. All notes and references can be found in this Google document. It is view only. Please do contact me if you cannot get access. https://bit.ly/326gZGn Please do share and use these notes if they are useful to you, all resources are listed below. Please do give credit and let authors know if you use their work beyond your own professional practice. Resources: Breed, Ray, and Michael Spittle. Developing Game Sense through Tactical Learning: a Resource for Teachers and Coaches. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Collard, Mark. “Chicken Baseball – Energetic…
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PE Institute 2019 Asheville – Workshop Notes – Use of Coaching Cards for Observation.
This post is a place for me to share resources with participants from the PE Institute who came to my Use of Coaching Cards for Observation in MS HS PE classes. This workshop will run on Monday 22nd July 2019 in Asheville, NC, USA. All the resources below are Google Documents – you have access to them as View only. Please do use them and share them as you see fit. The research/conversation/layout of my session is here: https://bit.ly/2RKu8A1 There are several tasks we will work through. Task 1 is driven by me. Task 2 (Moose, Tiger, Zebra) notes are here: https://bit.ly/2FISANt Task 3 Coaches Questions are here: https://bit.ly/2xnlFJE Resources…
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PE Proposal #2
Wealth by Reiterlied CC BY SA It takes a village to raise a child – this saying has come back to me after a week of amazing conversations from Beijing to Saudi Arabia – social media and our #Physed village have come out in full support. My most favourite conversations are ones that are not affirming but rather ask a lot of questions or share research that allows time for more discussion and more questions. I really value these interactions and have found it very reflective as I consider both the scheduling chats (how will we make this new timetable work for our PE students and staff?) that I have…
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Quality PE at ISB – Define and Inquire
UNESCO Quality PE – link here to the online booklet UNESCO Quality PE – link here to the online booklet Do we provide Quality PE at ISB? Over the last few months, I have been pondering this question. And also how we might audit or facilitate meaningful dialogue with relevant stakeholders about how we would find out. I re-read this document that UNESCO published and that resonated with me as it opened my thinking to more than just what I could offer as a single teacher at my school and made me think bigger about how to advocate for my students, their community (and mine) and then also how I…