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 play. Bunker and Thorpe (1982) developed TGfU around the concept of teaching kids games by playing games. TGfU is an inquiry-based approach to teaching and prioritizes decision-making through gameplay over skill refinement …
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 students in meaningful games when they are learning from home? For anyone who has taught remotely in the past year, you will know that your students quickly tire of fitness …
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 teacher you have probably found yourself at some point in front of a computer trying to figure out how to teach your students. Despite all the craziness, stress, sleepness nights, …
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 player cannot guarantee the choices they make will be successful. The choices the player makes change the state of the game, so that the player must constantly be re-evaluating the …
I was lucky enough to meet Ben Landers at the PE Institute in North Carolina back in 2015 and not only did I have a blast with him, I learnt a bunch of new tricks and tips from him. I had so much fun with him, I just knew I needed to have him on my podcast. …
Last year I was lucky enough to experience the incredible DancePl3y program in my school. I had heard about it so much through Twitter and the online #PhysEd community, and when I moved to Canada and began my role as PHE Department Head at Meadowridge School, I knew that I needed to get the program …
Putting games at the centre of his physical education and coaching approach is something that Dr. Stephen Harvey excels at. Stephen is an Associate Professor in Coaching Education at Ohio University and his research is focused on teacher/coach pedagogy and practice and its influence on student/player learning. He has been invited to deliver presentations and workshops …
During my visit to the 2015 National PE Institute in Asheville I was lucky enough to meet and spend some time with University of Loughborough lecturer and PEPRN creator, Dr Ash Casey. Ash and I had been connecting online for a while and I knew of his work and research in the area of cooperative learning. …
As physical educators we are lucky to be able to go to work every day and assist in helping our students develop their physical literacy. We aim to enable our students to develop the confidence & competence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments. By doing this we aim to give those …
At my recent Inquiry in #PhysEd 101: The What, Why and How? session at the amazing 2015 National PE Institute in Asheville I shared the idea of concept keys with the participants. Almost immediately following the session a large number of people came up to me and asked where they could get copies of the …
