Welcome to the March 2017 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.
Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. We have the first blogger of month award go to a previous winner. Once again it goes to Mel Hamada who blogs at melhamada.com. PE Teachers blog for many reasons, but for Mel her blog is the way she reflects upon her teaching. It is a critique of her practice and being privy to those thoughts and process allows us to do the same to our own in turn. Self reflection and mindlessness questions whether busy means better and what can we do to create some time in our lives to reflect. Focus on building confident movers and a close encounter are Mel’s collection of thoughts from her experiences at the SHAPE National Conference in Boston, especially around Physical Literacy and Connecting with other teachers to share good practice. A little help please is a case study that demonstrates the power of building a personal learning network online and how helpful it can be to offering solutions to problems faced in the gym or the sports field. Putting myself on the line and notices/wonderings are part 6 and part 7 of Mel’s ongoing professional development this year. Notices/Wonderings being a brave and honest look at her teaching after videoing herself, something that has inspired me to do the same for athletics next term. Finally I can highly recommend listening to Mel in her her Global PhysED Voxcast interview about building community.
- Want your team to succeed? Try taking a step back by Ed Smith talks about how stepping back as a coach can be just as helpful as direct instruction.
- Recharging My Batteries from Naomi Hartl is a personal and important blog post about teacher burnout. Thank you to her for sharing her story.
- Developing Warriors, not Winners, is the Path to Excellence by Changing the Game Project asks if their is a difference between a winning culture and a competitive culture in youth sport.
- No Design Needed by Game Play Learn looks at the role of unstructured and child lead sessions in development.
- Key Elements of Physical Literacy: A Sense of Direction and a Vision of Possibilities from the International Physical Literacy Association explores some of the key elements of PL; primacy of movement, the development of self and cultural valued pursuits.
- Some Reflections on PE and FMS on a Rainy Day by Shane Pill challenges the PE Teacher on whether they are physical activity providers and entertainers or perhaps we can be something more educational and be worthy of our place in a school curriculum.
- State of Play: Child & Youth Development in Sport- Views from around the world by Mark O’Sullivan brings together the latest viewpoints on youth sport from Scotland, Sweden, England, Ireland, Canada and Singapore.
- Resurrecting Critical Thinking by Informed in Sport asks what do coaches and practitioners need to do to resurrect critical thinking in this era of connectivity, mobile technology and social media?
- WHY Physical Education? And why DID you want to teach it? by Nate Babcock and Why am I a Physical Education Teacher by Justin Schleider is a question and answer to what is the purpose of PE and what brought you into teaching it in the first place.
- Minimizing Sport in Physical Education
- Strength and Conditioning – or Health and Fitness?
- Toward the re-conceptualisation of physical education: The Inherent value of human motion
- “Learning to be Physical for Life and Being Physical to Learn for Life”
- Preparing students for a physically active life
- Have we designed ourselves into the sedentary corner … the green alternative?
- Perfecting Our P.E. Teaching
- Going Up?
- Delightful Physical Education
- Making strides in schools
- Movement Composition
- Collaboration is the Key to Student Success and Achievement
- On Student Reflection In Physical Education
- Challenge Your Students
- How to Teach Jump Rope in PhysEd Class
- International Dance Showcase Unit Teacher Pack
- Self reflection and mindfulness…
- Game Maps in Physical Education
- #ShapeBoston – focus on building confident, happy Movers!
- Team Teaching – The Future of Education
- Project Based Learning: Where to start?
- Shape Boston – A Close Encounter…
- Um, a little help please….Super social media team to the rescue!
- Professional Learning – Part 6 – Putting myself on the line
- Professional Development – Part 7 – Notices /Wonderings
- Tools for Teaching Anatomy
- The ActivityDex
- Taking Attendance In Class Using QR Codes
- Scan, Quiz, Learn
- Apps + Excel; tools for gathering and analysing data in PE
- Introducing The Heart Rate Zone Viewer
- VLOG: The PE Flip
- Social Media in Physical Education
- Take Control of your Passwords
- Thinking Questions
- Heads Up in GCSE #Physed
- 5 Revision Habits your Students Have
- Revision-related Stress
- Principles of instruction
- Information, affordances, and the control of action in sport
- Motor Learning Concepts for Developing Effective Practice Conditions
- Physically active children are less depressed
- Effects of the Skills4Genius sports-based training program in creative behavior
- Framework for the design and delivery of organized physical activity sessions for children and adolescents: rationale and description of the ‘SAAFE’ teaching principles
- The Game Sense Approach as Explicit Teaching and Deliberate Practice
- Everything you think about sport is wrong
- Play and Creativity
- Interview with Danny Newcombe, Oxford Brookes University, CLA & Coaching
- Ilse Fullarton | HealthEd, PhysEd & The Children’s Health Project
- Joey Feith | Under the Umbrella with The Physical Educator
- Episode 80 – Data Drives Decision with Ross Chakrian
- Episode 81 – All About Flipped Learning in PhysEd with Carl Condliffe
- The Value of Play I: The Definition of Play Gives Insights
- How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
- “A Coaches Journey to SELF”
- Can Sport Deliver the Physical Activity Agenda?
- How the sports industry inspired us to become less active
- Team Sports Bring life satisfaction
- Fear Tactics
- Teenage players and things to consider…
- The Puzzle of Programming Training for Humans
- Stephen Rollnick-Bringing People Together. A Restorative Approach and Sport
- Is “Fear of Missing Out” Ruining Youth Sports?
- Nurturing Creativity
- Don’t Turn Your Young Athlete Into a Mini Me
- How professional sport handicaps youth sporting culture
- “A reward-based approach could be key in adolescent learning”
- Embodied Cognition is Not What you Think it is
- What works may hurt: Side effects in education
- Resources to Learn How to Get Better at Getting Better
- Three Tools for Highly Productive Practice
