Research
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Endurance Athlete – as a woman
This past week, the name Stacy Sims has cropped up on my radar. First was as I ran around the lake one early morning, as I listened to the Purple Patch Podcast and then as I had a virtual coffee with a former colleague as we chatted about inspiring media and this TedTalkX came up (Stacy Sims) and then as I chatted to my coach, Adam, he mentioned to me that he had listened to a webinar from Sims, and I knew that the stars were aligning for a reason. I have been much more reflective on how much nutrition and my hormone cycle dictate my training success. I have…
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Physical Literacy – continually evolving lifetime
Physical Literacy is a term that has bounced onto the scene but with so many other terms or focus points in our society – it can be challenging to decide what PL is and how we might define it within our communities and contexts. This article suggests that Physical Literacy has been adopted into the Physical Education curriculum under a Health-focus or policy bias. The different educational curriculum in different countries has used the term Physical Literacy to then create checklists that focus on fundamental movements, skills or activities but may then be excluding other criteria or discussion about how to create Physically Literate members of our community. (Jurbala, 2015…
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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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Proposal for Scheduling – a call for research, experience and questions…
Image by M W from Pixabay Next year our Middle school schedule will change. Our Leadership team has done a very thorough job of research into scheduling; interviewing with other schools about what they do and Why they do it (and How they make it work); forming a working group to look at different angles; surveys to parents, teachers and students and meeting with scheduling guru’s and reading a lot of literature around what is best for kids and how we might make that work at our school. The knock-on effect for us in PE and Health in the MS is that we have some changes from our current model and we now…
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Professional Growth 2018-19 Part 1 – The Pilot and Standards
The Three Rocks by alfonso maseda varela CC BY NC SA A new year and new ideas. Daniel Pink in his book When, writes about the power of beginnings and endings – and a new school year brings about a whole assortment of possibilities wiped clean from the end of the previous academic year. Last year I was involved in discussing a new way to grow Professionally at ISB and this year am part of the pilot group that will try out our recommended approach and give feedback about the process, but also (hopefully) grow as a professional in my own learning in a more authentic way. “Effective professional development…
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Discovering Meaning in PE
This post is long overdue. I have taken a hiatus from writing and this has been both good (giving me time for other focus) and bad ( I have genuinely missed writing about my thinking about and recording my work in PE). This week I have been enjoying listening, reading and dialoguing about the Purpose of PE for me as a teacher but also in connection with student learning and the ultimate goal of every PE teacher – How do we make PE meaningful so that every student in our care wants to come back to our spaces and then in time wants to create their own meaningful movement journeys…
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Mind the Gap – an analysis of where some things stand
Mind the Gap by Pablofalv CC BY NC SA “Mind the Gap please.” When I lived in England and travelled on the underground train system, this recorded message came at each station – a warning that the train didn’t always meet the platform and to Mind the Gap as you stepped off the train or on to the train and to not fall or drop your bag through the gap created between the train and platform. This ‘Gap’ is a reoccurring theme of the last few months as I am trying to work out how best to analyse What is causing the student learning gaps and to determine How best to deal…