The PE Playbook – May 15 Edition – drowningintheshallow

Welcome to the May 2015 Edition of the PE Playbook. The PE Playbook is a review of blog posts over the past month that are specific to Physical Education or Youth Sport. Its about bringing these blog posts into a format that is easy to find, use and share. Hopefully this will result in more PE Teachers (and others) reading them and engaging with them. If you have any feedback about the presentation or content of the PE Playbook then please let me know in the comments section of this post or via @ImSporticus.

Contents:

Blogger of the Month

Top 10 Blog posts

General PE

Primary PE

Secondary PE

Tech in PE

Academic PE

Research in PE

PE Podcasts and Videos

School and Youth Sport

Articles of Interest

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PEPRN the website set up by Dr Ash Casey of Loughborough University has now been a staple of my PD for a number of years. His ultimate aim through his website is to try and bring research in PE and PE Pedagogy to practitioners in a way that is both accessible and useable in the classroom. He has challenged his readers to Think, Act and Change on the research he has shared either in written format or though his excellent podcast. This month has seen PEPRN go through an update PEPRN is dead. Long Live PEPRN, with new graphics, a new user interface and a slightly different direction. Rather than just disseminating knowledge and current research to teachers the new approach is both to share the research and have a practising teacher also add their comments, thoughts and approaches on it. Attempting to bridge the gap between research and actual teaching practice. Every Tuesday a new post is launched, with the current series looking at pre service training and the socialisation of professionalism that occurs with new teachers in the PE Office. This series has two posts. The first Learning to be a teacher and the second What is professional, workplace learning? I’m hugely looking forward to not only where this series goes, but as a more experienced teacher how it might impact my own professional development. I urge all PE Teachers not only to read, but to interact through the comments section. A continued shared dialogue will only benefit all in the profession.

Tom Brush is a deeply reflective PE Teacher who blogs at PE T and L Blog. This month Tom has written four excellent blogs that mainly question our practice in Physical Education and offers some possible solutions. Like most PE Teachers in the country at the moment Assessment in PE is a big conundrum, especially as we are now left without levels. However this may be the chance of Departments to design their own assessment models, built on what they feel is their moral purpose and important for their students in their context to try and achieve within PE. Tom shares the concept of Using core tasks in Physical Education as a possible answer and I’m drawn to this idea, but wonder if it can be used on more general terms rather than specific activities. In Setting by ability in P.E Tom explores the positive and negative impact that setting may have on our students engagement and motivation to physical activity and also shares some research on this area. Most recently he asks the question Should we test fitness in KS3 PE and quite clearly states his position. I think many PE Teachers are drawn to fitness testing because of the data it gives them and the evidence that progress is being made, which is why early on in my career I used them. Then when mentoring a PGCE student she gave me Fitness testing in physical education – a misdirected effort in promoting healthy lifestyles and physical activity to read from Loughborough University which has changed my thinking and approach.

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