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Day 13: Tingly feelings
One of the big conversations I have enjoyed as I have unpacked LAMPE‘s Meaningful PE and the pillars they have shared is to try and explain what is meant by Delight. Delight is not the same as joy or fun and it is important to try and distinguish between the difference. Kretchmar’s writings mention fun regularly, this is how he has explained fun: “Things that are fun are often temporary, and they are usually not meaningful. Fun can be used like a band-aid, something that covers over a sore but doesn’t affect a lasting cure. Fun is used by physical educators to mask what could be a distasteful experience. One involving effort,…
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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…