Reflection is an essential tool in the process of learning. It doesn’t matter what it is you are trying to learn, if you don’t take some time to think about what it is you have just done then it is impossible to learn from it. Educational reformer John Dewey sums it up in this simple …
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Back in August 2013 I blogged about Enhancing Dance in your #PhysEd Program. Â The blog post provided a few simple suggestions to encourage teachers to think critically about how they could improve the way that dance was being delivered in their physical education programs. If you were anything like me when I first came out …
A couple of Mondays ago the #pechat topic was Inquiry Based Learning in #PhysEd. After leading a fairly quiet session during the Asian timezone, I decided to jump on in with Adam Howell during his North American slot while I was on my lunch break at school the next day. The conversation that took place over the …
Any time that I am fortunate enough to watch another physical educator teach a lesson the thing that I value the most is seeing the ways that they manage their class to ensure the students spend the maximum time learning and being active. I always marvel at the small things that teachers do to keep …
The questions we ask our students and the answers they give play an important role in assessing student understanding and learning in our #PhysEd programs.Good teacher questions enable us to assess prior and changing student knowledge, give students the ability to demonstrate complex strategic understanding in a games or how they can transfer their knowledge …
Teacher Questions for Reflecting on #PhysEd Understandings Read More »
Inquiry based learning is the future! Children are naturally inquisitive and helping them to become better independent thinkers, problems solvers should be the aim of every educator, including Physical Educators.No longer are we just facilitators for games, no longer will our gymnasiums, fields, halls and courts be a place where classroom teachers send their kids …
How many of you out there dread the time of year when the Dance & Movement part of your program arrives? How many of you feel underprepared and uncomfortable teaching dance & movement? How many of you teach the Nutbush, Cotton Eye Joe, The Macarena?The quality of teaching & learning of dance and movement composition …
Documenting what goes on in your PE classes is a must for the 21st century Physical Educator, no more so than in the Early Years classes. Â I am lucky enough to have spent 2 years living and working in Milan, Italy where I was able to observe first hand the Reggio Emilia approach to education. …
Documentation in Early Years PE – A Reggio Emilia inspired approach to #PhysEd Read More »
There are two kinds of specialist (single subject) teachers. The ones who do everything they can to use the unit of inquiry and central idea to encourage inquiry in their subject area…..and then there’s the ones who say they are collaborating and working within the PYP framework, but end up following the same old subject …
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