Welcome to the November 2016 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. Previous Editions of the PE Playbook can be found here.
Lee Andersen is a UK based PE Teacher who blogs at wewearshorts. Although not a frequent blogger, his posts always make me think and reconsider my practice. In Handball in PE – on the rise, or just another “alternative curriculum activity”? Lee investigates his growing advocacy for handball, both personally and professionally. His key take away from this experience is that to effectively teach an activity, we as PE teachers need to invest some of our time in it. Building our subject knowledge through training and play, from someone who has more expertise than us. A lack of long term, iterative, practical CPD for PE Teachers is clear. Lee demonstrates the professionalism and commitment for what is needed for us to develop our subject knowledge of activities, whilst at the same modelling the lifestyle he would want his pupils to lead. Two other previous posts of his Why I might banish football from the PE Curriculum and Joining in – is it ever OK? have really made me think about my approaches in PE. Lee might not blog frequently, but you can be assured that if you follow him what he does produce will make you reflect on what you are doing.
- How to Organise & Manage for the Emergence of Excellence in Sport? Make a Plan, Stick to the Plan, Always Deliver! and Organising for Excellence in Team Sports (pt 3) is a trilogy of posts by Mark Upton on the organisation of sport and a prompt to not forget that at it’s heart is people.
- Health promotion in schools – reality or pipe dream? via ACHPER asks whether schools can really achieve the goal of health promotion for society.
- A Movement Centered Approach to PE – Why (Part 2) is James Dowling‘s continuation of sharing his thoughts behind a movement based PE curriculum.
- The role of fun in meaningful physical education: Part 2 further develops both the strengths and limitations in providing Meaningful PE
- Build it and they will come is by Damian Farrow and stresses the fact that the adult version of the game is not the best learning environment for children and asks us to make modifications.
- Seven ways to give better feedback to your students is an article by Inner Drive for the Guardian on evidence based methods of providing feedback.
- The Rule of One: How One Person, One Comment, One Time Can Change a Life Forever from John O’Sullivan for Changing the Game Project is a powerful reminder that our words as teachers and coaches can have transformational meaning if used well.
- National Finalists 2016 and Their Great Ideas via My PE Exam are the videos of the best ideas from the 2016 National PE TeachMeets project.
- Physical Education – Contested Ground by Shane Pill is a challenging piece about how PE is constantly open to influence by agencies outside of education.
- I Want You To Make Mistakes by John Kessel on how he attempts to create an environment where to err is the first step to building trust and stretching ability.
- Assessment and Learning are not the same thing
- Connection
- Why teaching kids how to move has become essential
- 10 Traits of Great PE Teachers
- Safer Schools for All
- The PE TeachMeet National Final 2016
- Harassment and physical activity – what role does #physed play?
- The Benefits of Phys Ed for Students with ADHD
- APPEC16 – links and resources
- Bearing the Fruits of Positive Student Relationships
- Head of NHS says our schools should be inspected for kids’ fitness levels as well as their academic grades
- University reveals new way to teach PE
- Teaching Skill-Related Fitness Concepts in All Spaces
- The Best Parts of My Week – 10/24/16–10/31/16
- 4 Fun Fitness Activities for P.E.!
- Hula Hoop Tricks in PE
- 10 Core Exercises for Kids
- The Best Parts of My Week – 10/31/16–11/4/16
- #GISAConference 2016: notes and quick reflection
- The Benefits of Teaching with Stations
- The Best Parts of My Week – 11/7/16–11/11/16
- The Best Parts of My Week – 11/14/16–11/20/16
- Physical Literacy; Games for ball and Racquet Control
- 6 More Motivating Fitness Ideas for PE – Part 2
- Professional Learning Part 4 – Collecting Evidence – Lesson 1 + 2
- Reflections of a reflector, reflecting
- Can You Create Your Own Professional Development?
- The DADEE Program
- How to Intentionally Create Leaders
- What works well? Ask a PE Teacher.
- Episode 70 – Capturing Activity Data with Ben Pirillo
- Using GPS to Craft an Active Learning Adventure
- QR Codes & How to Use Them
- Psychological Momentum—A Key to Continued Success
- Learning by moving
- During play, the break, and the drive home: The meaning of parental verbal behaviour in youth sport
- Should we privilege sport for health? The comparative effectiveness of UK Government investment in sport as a public health intervention
- Moving Ahead: School-Based Interventions to Reduce Physical Inactivity and Sedentary Behaviour
- Why Are Girls Less Physically Active than Boys? Findings from the LOOK Longitudinal Study
- Genuine inquiry: Widely espoused yet rarely enacted
- Perceptual-Motor Development II: Ecological Approach
- Thinking About Thinking in Physed
- Stoking The Fire Under The Umbrella
- Connection, Attention & Intention in Physed
- Practical Language in Physed
- Fostering Whole School Buy In with Arron Gardiner
- Coaching: Developing decision-making skills crucial for nurturing children’s potential
- Complexity, Creativity, and Everything
- Why real skill acquisition doesn’t get many views on YouTube
- The Factory System
- A Total Learning Experience In One Game
- Messi – The secret behind his success.
- Winning Stoically
- How a Sand Wall Can Help Kids to Long Jump Further
- Drowning in Freedom
- Four Words That Can Change the Culture of Youth Sports
- Defining ‘Elite’ in Sport
- How to Safely Transition Kids to a New Triple Jump Take-Off Board
- Stop yelling from the sideline to go harder, and start teaching effort
- Let them PLAY, not Train
- What Is A 3-Point Start & How Can It Help Young Athletes?
- How to Teach Kids to Lean When They Accelerate
- I Found It Interesting #18
- Who Is Coaching My Kid?
- Some Thoughts, Reflections & Advice on Coaching
- Just Play!
- A Practical Take on Long-Term Athlete Development
- What is a Leaning Start & How Can It Help Young Athletes?
- Creating Birds of a Feather: The Potential of Similarity to Connect Teachers and Students
- “A reward-based approach could be key in adolescent learning”
- The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play!
- Daniel Pink and Anders Ericsson: The Secrets of Top Performers and What It Takes to Be Truly Great
- 21st century skills don’t exist. So why do we need them?
- Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect: Scott Barry Kaufman and David Epstein Reconsider the Science of “10,000 Hours” to Greatness
- Society must not waste the wisdom of coaches
- Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded
- The Science of Conquering Your Greatest Fears
- The athletic brain – how neuronal signals influence sports performance
- New Wisconsin study claims single-sport student athletes suffer far more injuries
- This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.
- 2 ways to make the most of your workout, no apps or trackers required
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