🔎 Looking at PE Through a Different Lens
One of the fantastic things about PE is that we have this perfect opportunity to use physical activity and sport to help kids learn about concepts, wh…
TGfU: Teaching Net & Wall Games
Net & Wall Games are one of the four categories of games found in the Teaching Games for Understanding approach (click here to learn more…
What is Teaching Games for Understanding?
The Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach was developed by researchers at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom to tap into children’s inherent desire to…
The Role of Health in Physical Education
As an early career teacher, physical education to me was about sports and getting kids active. But as my career has progressed and I’ve thought…
A Sense of Games – Developing Thinking Players
The Game Sense teaching and coaching approach is a game-based and player-centred sport teaching pedagogy that champions the development of “thinking…
2020 Vision – A Year in PhysEd
This time last year if I had told you that you would be forced to teach PhysEd from home in front of a computer, you would have laughed in my face. Wh…
Teaching Games for Understanding @ Home
With COVID radically changing the way that education is being delivered, one of the biggest challenges for physical educators is how do we engage our…
The Future of Physical Education
I think it would be fair to say that in 2020 the world has turned itself upside down and inside out. As a physical education…
The Best of 2019: A Year in Review
Another year has come and gone. 2019 is in the history books as we move into 2020 and a new decade. The year 2019 was…
Gamification in Physical Education
Any game is something where a player is set a challenge. The player may make choices to overcome the challenge, although chance dictates that the…