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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…
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Mastery and Failure
Last year I worked with Simon Mills to design a Badminton unit and after much debate and discussion, we decided to go with a very different approach to our unit. We had both worked in Japan and we had watched Japanese students working in PE using so much skill repetition to master skills rather than practice them. And so we decided to see how our students would cope with skill mastery as the focus of our learning. We used a basic “How to learn Badminton” type book that started off with warm up skills and we used these series of skills as the backbone of our unit. We didn’t know…