• ACHPER,  Blog,  Concept based learning,  Professional Development,  Teacher Reflection

    ACHPER Net Games Article – Links

    ACHPER Australia invited me to write an article in their November 2014 issue about our recent Net Games unit in PE.  In that article I refer to System cards that we used for student inquiry. I would like to encourage other PhysEd teachers who are working on concept based or inquiry based lesson content to contact Rick Baldock (@baldyr55 or ) with their work, it is important that we continue to grow our global community full of good learning and sharing – this will empower and help us to learn from each other!  Rick is an amazing supporter of groups and individuals and I thank him for his patience and amazing editing…

  • Teacher Reflection,  Uncategorized,  volleyball

    MYP #PhysEd and the inquiry cycle – Net Games for HS students

    Mastermind by Steve Berry CC BY SA YIS have adopted the MYP Next Chapter this year and this means that our PE Department are starting to sort out how our criteria have changed under the new guide.  My colleague, Alex, and I are quite into semantics, and can quite easily engage in conversation about what words mean and how we ensure our learners are truly connecting their learning to their assessment and feedback through the use of the key command words.  So far I am enjoying the fact that the new command words (eg. describe, explain, justify) are the same words that are found in other subject guides, this ensures…