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Leadership – who inspires you?
Napoleon by Alan CC BY NC SA Every year at parent teacher conferences or at our 3-way conferences, I talk to many of my students and parents about Leadership. I have taken this topic in hand as I applied and then accepted the job of HoD of PE and think a lot about the type of Leader I hope I can be and those around me who inspire me to be a leader. Leadership comes up in our Invasion Games units as we inquire into the concept of ‘Community’ looking firstly at ourselves; team; organisation; leadership and what makes an effective community from Grade 6-10. As I talk to my…
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Concept based learning – Invasion Games
Lego Spellen by Dirk Houbrechts CC BY NC For those who know me, you will know that I have recently moved from UNIS Hanoi to Yokohama Int’l School. This has been a big change for myself (and my family) and I am working in a new PE department and have taken on the Head of Department role. I am relishing the opportunity to put many of our good practice down in writing so that it is clear to others that our PE dept sees some fundamental truths as important and that this manifests itself in our classes, everyday. Now I am also part of the #PEPLC community, organising a…
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#PEHangout 2 – Concepts
I am very excited to share our second PEHangout via Google Hangouts. If you missed the first one you can check it out here. We are all now getting the hang of this technology (almost) and it was really great to start talking about Concepts with the panel. Alex Thomas, Jarrod Robinson and I (with support from an internet-down Ken Forde) chatted a bit about what we get up to in our PE lessons and started circling the really big topic of Concepts and how we see this within the contexts of our classes. It was clear by the end that we felt there are three areas that we focus…