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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…
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Pondering the right questions. Teaching PE and Health 2020-21
What is PE? What is Health? What is essential? What are our constraints? What is practical? In an exchange of ideas with a few people today, it became more clear to me that as we go back to school or prepare to return to a new academic year, that for many of us, we will not be able to teach PE the way in which we have previously and that for me this means I need to have clear in my own head the questions that rattle around confusing me and muddying the water of clear focus of how to best plan for the start of teaching PE and Health…
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Finishing Strong
eLearning can suck the marrow from a love of teaching and being around young people all day. This week has been a long week, but with the close of our academic year remaining online, it has been important to regroup and try to reach out to my students who have not engaged in any form of PE eLearning since we started in February. I want to be clear that I am not in any way judging my students or blaming them, I am frustrated because I feel I cannot reach them, my emails go unanswered, my content goes unread, parents are not responding, and I feel sad that I have…
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Professional Growth 2018-19 Part 3 – Challenge in PE
What does it mean to Challenge yourself as a student in your PE classes? What are we asking of our students? How are we offering a safe place for them to be challenged? How are we arming students with grit and resilience and the ability to push beyond a comfort zone to test themselves in a relevant way in our classes? Twitter regularly has threads of people who really did not enjoy their PE (or are not enjoying PE) and as I scroll down and read I am constantly disheartened by what I read. How truly awful to have had a teacher who could create lifelong aversion to movement. Or…
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Professional Growth – articulating what makes activity Meaningful – conversations w Ss
Three Wise Monkeys by Victor Wong CC BY NC SA This year I am on a quest around deriving Meaning from PE and using the pillars of Meaningful PE as posed by… Kretchmar, Tim Fletcher, Beni from LAMPE. I read Justen O’Connor’s blog post around Exploring Meaningful Movement in Physical Education and I loved the activity that he has shared that came from a recent article also from O’Connor. What? The idea in this task is that we are trying to help our students to draw a rich vocabulary when they think, describe and share the meaning that they are drawing from a previous Physical Activity. This vocabulary draws on the…
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From the Heart – Keynote thoughts for PE Institute 2019
Image from Gifer This week is Chinese New Year and our Beijing based school has a week off. I am in the midst of working on a few projects and the biggest thing this week is to try and accomplish one of our local bike shops FireCracker 400 which is supposed to be 400km of cycling in 7 days but I have amended this to be 325km of cycling and 75km of running in 7 days. I am still not sure whether I will make it – with air quality and temperature always an issue here and with the amazingness of snowfall in the week as well – a magical…
- collaboration, Concept based learning, formative assessment, Professional Development, standards based grading, Teacher Reflection, Twitter
What core underlying standards are you teaching?
What? This week, Aaron Beighle vlogged out over twitter to ask about standards based grading but focused specifically on asking PE people what they teach through PE. You can see his vlog here (3m09s): So What? This has been a constant thinking for me – what is it that I believe in? What are my core values and do they align up with what I teach? Are these values that are worth investing in for my students (so they align with the school values and core expectations and life goals) and are they culturally sensitive to the needs of our students in Beijing China? I have been working to try…
- APPEC, feedback, Goal setting, PE mission statement, Professional Development, Teacher Reflection, Twitter, Voxer
Core Values, Advocation, Professional Growth, Networks and Literacy. A call to action.
Sunset at Yaquina Head by Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington CC BY What do you stand for? How are you core values visible to your student/ department/ community? Are you delivering on the mandate of QPE? What makes you say that? This past weekend I was humbled to give one of the Keynotes at the Asia-Pacific PE conference in Hong Kong. This is the third annual conference hosted at HK International School and saw a lot of Educator’s from Asia, Australia and also now from the USA and UK in attendance. The last few months I have really been delving into who I am and what I stand…