Game Centered Approach

  • ACHPER,  Game Centered Approach,  Professional Development,  Teacher Reflection,  Twitter

    ACHPER Victoria October 2020 – Game Sense Presentation

    A big thank you to ACHPER Victoria for allowing me to be a part of their ‘Teachers in Action’ series this October. It is great to have an opportunity to learn with others in Australia and be part of some professional conversations around so many different topics. It has allowed me to think more deeply about Why I use Game Sense and to re-read some great resources and feel more fresh about this great model. This blog post is a place for me to share the resources I will be using for this presentation. Those attending or those who are looking for more information can find it here: Google document…

  • APPEC,  collaboration,  curriculum,  Game Centered Approach,  Meaningful PE,  Quality PE

    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…

  • curriculum,  Game Centered Approach,  peer coaching,  Professional Development

    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…

  • curriculum,  feedback,  Game Centered Approach,  peer coaching,  Professional Development,  Research

    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…

  • Game Centered Approach,  Teacher Reflection,  Uncategorized

    Explicitly cuing students for success

    The last few weeks I have been overdosing on Dr Ash Casey.  I have been revisiting his book on Cooperative learning in Physical Education and Physical Activity (Casey and Dyson) and Casey’s new blog post series about model-based instruction has also had me reflecting heavily on my practice and what I am doing in my classroom.  What models am I using?  And how effectively (how do I know this?)?  What am I doing to be inclusive and to offer responsibility and roles to my students?  I have also been re-reading Don Hellison’s TPSR book for PE and this has also made me think about the way in which I am…

  • collaboration,  feedback,  Game Centered Approach,  peer coaching,  Professional Development,  Teacher Reflection,  TGfU

    Professional Development – Part 8 – Feedback and Reflection

    Miyajima Torii by Pablo Fernandez CC BY NC SA I have been blogging this past year in stages about some Professional Development I have personally undertaken.  This blog post explores the sharing from others in my PLN based on a series of videos taken of one of my classes and me asking for some feedback from others in the community.  If you are just joining in, welcome, but you might like to go back to Part 7 here to find out some of the back story.  This post is about the feedback from others and reflective growth moving forward from here. I was initially really excited for some conversation amongst…