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AI for PE Teachers (Part One) Feb 19, 2024

🤖 The AI revolution is well-underway and, I don't know about you, I've been feeling a little overwhelmed by it all! In this first part of a two-episode series, we'll unpack some of the key terms around AI and explore the idea of how to use artificial intelligence as a co-pilot in your teaching.

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Show Notes: Introduction to AI for Physical Education Teachers (Part One)

National PE Institute Facebook Page

OpenAI

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The Joy Of Going Back To School Aug 19, 2023

🥳 Ok, I get that not everyone feels super excited about going back to school. That said, after three years of being away from teaching, I can't wait to start the latest chapter in my teaching career! In this episode, I'll share the four things that have me feeling fired up about getting back into teaching.

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🇨🇦 PHE Canada's "Canadian Physical and Health Education Competencies"

👋 Ty Riddick's Blog "Approaches To Democratic Practice In Physical Education"

📝 "Informal sport and curriculum futures: An investigation of the knowledge, skills and understandings for participation and the possibilities for physical education"

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The Fear Of Going Back To School Aug 05, 2023

😨 In this episode, I'm sharing some exciting news and talking about some of the fears teachers experience as we head back to school.

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Middle School Fitness | A Lesson Walkthrough Jun 02, 2023

💪 In this episode, I'm trying something new! Let me walk you through a lesson that I recently designed and delivered at a local middle school. The lesson kicked off the students' fitness unit and focused on helping them explore the health-related components of fitness in a way that did not involve fitness testing or hitting up the fitness centre.

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Skateboarding in Physical Education May 25, 2023

🛹 Earlier this spring, I got to check one of my goals off of my teaching bucket list. For years, I've dreamed of teaching a skateboarding unit as part of my physical education program. Well, after several twists and turns, I finally managed to make that dream come true! In this episode, I'll walk you through the process I used to design and deliver a meaningful series of skateboarding lessons that empowered the middle school students at our local school to turn our town's skatepark into their own personal playground!

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Teaching From The Heart with Kyle Bragg May 22, 2023

❤️ Kyle Bragg is a celebrated physical educator out of Scottsdale, Arizona. If you follow the #physed hashtag on Twitter, then there is no doubt that you have caught glimpses into Kyle's teaching already. Kyle does an incredible job of sharing best practices and insights from his teaching, and lately has been doing all of this through the #ICIH hashtag (which stands for In Case It Helps). In this episode, we explore what got Kyle into teaching, how he develop such an intentional approach to social and emotional learning in physical education, and how he continues to build a physical education program that seeks to have a lasting impact on his students' lives.

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Better Game Design: Structuring Games to Support Student Learning in Physical Education Feb 27, 2023

▶️ Games play an important role within physical education programs. That said, we need to ensure that we are designing games so that they are aligned to student learning targets and support our students' learning in PE. In this episode, I'll be sharing one game design tactic that I love to use to help my students experience success, deepen their learning, and develop skills, knowledge, and understandings that are essential to physical literacy.

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How To Support Our Students' Sense of Belonging Feb 20, 2023

🤝 School belonging is linked to improvements in academic achievement, higher self-reported levels of happiness, and fewer occurrences of violence and bullying in schools. In this episode of The #PhysEd Show, we'll take a deep dive into the world of belonging, make sense of the factors that influence it, and explore a set of evidence-based strategies and tactics that can help your students build a sense of school belonging in PE!

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Kelly-Ann Allen: @drkellyallen

Belonging Framework: Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research

Meta-Analysis Study: What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis

Randy Spring's Banner: View On Twitter

Tanner Roos' Greeting Chart: View On Twitter

Greeting Students At The Door: Welcoming Students With a Smile

Empathy & Blindness in PE: A Blind Surfer? Using YouTube To Build Empathy And Deepen One's Understanding of Physical Literacy.

The Blueprint: Using RULER As A Framework For Intentional Social and Emotional Learning

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The Scenic Route To Joyful Teaching with Barb Borden Feb 10, 2023

✨ Every now and then, you meet someone who reminds you how much fun it is to have fun while you teach. I've had the opportunity to connect with Barb Borden over the years and gain a window into her teaching through her Twitter presence. Without a doubt, Barb's teaching brings so much joy, laughter, and fun to her students lives. After connecting with Barb to learn more about how she has successfully accessed grant money to fund her PE program over the years, I quickly realized that her story was one that I wanted more teachers to hear. WARNING: your cheeks will most likely be sore after this episode from smiling so much!

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Talking Tech in Physical Education | #PEChat Panels Dec 08, 2022

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🤓 This is an exciting episode! Well, it's not really an episode. What you're about to listen to is a recording from our first-ever #PEChat Panels session! Panels is a the latest #PEChat format that Elyse and I have thrown into the mix. It involves bringing some brilliant physical education teachers together to discuss a specific topic. In this inaugural session, Elyse led the discussion on using technology in physical education.

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#PEChat Radio Hour: Unified Physical Education w/ Jen Heebink (2022 SHAPE America National PE Teacher of the Year) Nov 17, 2022

♿️ Every child, regardless of ability, deserves to have access to effective, meaningful physical education experiences. However, many educators struggle with how to design physical education lessons that allow students with disabilities to engage in positive ways both in the learning and with their peers. Knowing this, I was fired up to get to sit down with Jen Heebink, SHAPE America's 2022 National PE Teacher of the Year. Jen has an incredible passion for Unified Physical Education and shares a ton of knowledge and expertise from her experience a both an adapted and unified PE teacher in Minnesota. Are you in for a treat? You betcha!

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Lesson Walkthrough: An Outcomes-Based Grade 6 Invasion Games Lesson Nov 10, 2022

👀 Understanding how to align lessons to curriculum outcomes not only helps teachers maximize the impact of their instruction, it also helps them approach their teaching with as much confidence and clarity as possible! In this episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast, I'm going to walk you through a purposeful physical education lesson that I recently had the opportunity to share with teachers here in Nova Scotia.

The lesson was designed to help students reach the following learning targets:

I know a variety of offensive tactics that help create space.
I can use a few (2-3) offensive tactics to create space in invasion games.

As you listen in, pay attention to the way the lesson's design constantly invites students to reflect on where they are going, where they are now, and how they close the gap. I had a lot of fun putting this one together, so let me know if you would like to hear more lesson walkthrough episodes in the future!

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Designing Learning Roadmaps

Making Sense of Student Learning Targets

What, Why, How Graphics

Plickers Assessment Magnets

Rest Like A Rockstar: Creating The Conditions To Finding Momentum In Your Teaching Oct 13, 2022

🏄‍♂️ Momentum is one of the absolute best feelings we can experience as teachers. It allows us to get more done, feel that we're on top of all of our tasks, and bring new and exciting ideas to our teaching. However, as teachers, we tend to be horrible at creating the conditions required to experience momentum in our work. This contributes to the feelings of overwhelm that are all too familiar to teachers and that can lead to stress, anxiety, burnout, and/or depression.

So, how do we create the conditions for momentum in our teaching? This is the questions that we'll explore in this week's episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast!

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Steven Kotler - The Art of Impossible

Andrew Huberman - Toolkit for Sleep

Become Burnout Proof with Active Recovery - Clare Sarah Goodridge (find information on brain waves here)

Forest bathing: What it is and why you should try it

The Full-Stack Physical Educator

Elyse Loughlin | Equity, Social Justice, Physical Education, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe Oct 07, 2022

Elyse Loughlin is a physical education teacher currently teaching in upstate New York.

In addition to teaching Elyse is an OPEN National Trainer. She has presented at local, state, and national conferences covering everything from SLOs and GLOs to the active role physical education and health education can play in social justice. Elyse also happens to be my co-host for the weekly #PEChat discussions that we host on Twitter Spaces every Monday night at 8PM ET.

Elyse is committed to using Physical Education as a venue for social justice work in regards to race, wellness, education, and poverty.

In this episode, Elyse helps us understand how Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) can help us explore equity, social justice, and trauma-informed practices in physical education.

This episode is a recording of our latest #PEChat Radio Hour, one of the new chat formats that we are exploring on Twitter Spaces. The Radio Hour format consist of a live interview with a guest that anyone on Twitter can listen in to, share reactions, and engage in side-discussions by tweeting in the Space. At the end of the interview, we invite listeners to request the mic and share their questions and thoughts with our guest.

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Andy Vasily: Supporting Student Autonomy In Physical Education Sep 29, 2022

Andy Vasily is the host of The Run Your Life Podcast, a celebrated instructional coach, an incredible physical education, and one of my good friends.

Andy's teaching has had a huge impact on the way I think about keeping students at the centre of their learning experiences. In today's episode, we dive into Andy's transformation towards becoming an autonomy-supportive PE teacher at the start of his career, the impact that providing students with opportunities to exercise their voice and choice in physical education can have on their learning, and where teachers can start should they wish to shift their teaching towards pedagogies that support autonomy.

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Co-Constructing Success Criteria In Physical Education Sep 21, 2022

🎯 Using success criteria in your teaching is a high-leverage practice that has a significant effect on student learning. By building success criteria in partnership with your students, you can help increase student ownership, motivation, and engagement.
That said, how can we bring this practice into a physical education setting? What are the steps to follow and how can we adapt them to meet the realities of teaching physical education?

These are the questions that I do my best to answer in this week's episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast!
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#PEChat Radio Hour: How To Support A Growth Mindset In Physical Education Apr 01, 2022

Here is the recording from our latest #PEChat Radio Hour! For this episode, #PEChat host Elyse Loughlin interviews Joey Feith (that's me!) on Twitter Spaces.

This episode focuses on what physical educators can do to help support the development of a growth mindset within their students. In the episode, we explore:

• The differences between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.

• How mindsets affect our meaning systems and behaviours.

• How teachers can design physical environments that support a growth mindset.

• How peer attitudes and behaviours affect the development of a growth mindset.

• The different ways that teachers communicate their belief in a growth mindset and how that can affect students.

• Simple, evidence-based growth mindset interventions that work.

Thanks for tuning in! Happy Teaching!

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Unpacking Student Motivation In Physical Education Mar 23, 2022

“If you don’t do the work, then you don’t get the grade.”

The saddest part about that cringe-worthy sentence is that I’ve said it to students before. Early on in my career, I had no idea how to motivate students in my teaching. I’d do my best to plan fun lessons, but I’d resort to a “carrots and sticks” approach when dealing with unmotivated students.

The problem is that controlling students with rewards and consequences only leads to higher levels of anxiety, boredom, or alienation.

It robs students of their natural love for learning and the feelings of joy, enthusiasm, and interest that once came with it. Knowing this impact, how can we best support student motivation in our lessons?

Self-determination theory looks at human motivation and tries to understand the factors that push or prevent people from wanting to learn and grow. The theory argues that intrinsic motivation is sustained by satisfying three basic psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

In this episode, we will take a look at how we can use self-determination theory to increase student motivation in P.E.

I did my best to tie theory to practice and I'm convinced that you will have a few new strategies in your tool belt after listening to this podcast.

Thanks for tuning in! Happy Teaching!

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What Physical Educators Can Learn From Norway’s Olympic Success. Feb 14, 2022

The 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing are underway and - as I write this - Norway is at the top of the medal standings.

Again.

Norway is a bit of an anomaly: it's a relatively small country at 5.3 million people (which ranks it #119 in the world based on population size), yet somehow it is an Olympic beast.

Prior to the games in Beijing beginning, Norway had 368 medals at the Winter Olympic Games (132 gold, 125 silver, 111 bronze). That count ranks them in the number one spot in all-time medal winners at the Winter Olympics, ahead of the United States (305) and Germany (240).

So what's going on here? What makes Norway so successful at the Olympics and what can we - as physical educators - take away from their approach?

In this episode, I'll be breaking down Norway's philosophy of "The Joy Of Sport For All" and sharing what PE can take away from the nation's approach to create safer, friendlier, more meaningful experiences for our students.

🇳🇴 Show Notes Blog Post: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2022/02/12/what-physical-educators-can-learn-from-norways-olympic-success/

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Skills, Knowledge, and Understanding in Physical Education Jan 20, 2022

Physical literacy is the foundation of physical education.

As physical educators, it is our job to nurture our students’ physical literacy through meaningful, effective learning experiences. However, there is a common mistake that many PE teachers make that can severely hamper the impact of their teaching:

They focus too much on the physical domain of physical literacy.

Physical literacy exists across four domains: physical, cognitive, affective, and behavioural. Therefore, we need to look beyond the physical aspects of learning in order to best serve our students.

It took me a while to realize this in my own teaching. However, that realization is what led me to eventually start focusing on three key areas of learning: skills, knowledge, and understanding.

In this episode, I'll be breaking down the difference between the three and walking you through how they can help you maximize the impact of your teaching!

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#PEChat Radio Hour: Adventure Education with Mark Friedrich Oct 05, 2021

Here is the recording from our latest #PEChat Radio Hour! For this episode, I connected with Mark Friedrich on Twitter Spaces.

Mark Friedrich is an Adventure Education and Health Education teacher at Millburn High School in Millburn, New Jersey. Mark has been a member of Millburn's Health & PE Department for 16 years. During those years, he has created an Adventure Education program that is not only one of the largest in his state, it's also the envy of many educators out there (this guy included).

Mark was named the 2016 NJAHPERD Secondary Physical Education Teacher of the Year and he was also the recipient of the 2021 SHAPE America Joy of Effort Award, which honors individuals who, by performance and style, have personified the concept that the effort made to enrich the goals and objectives of health and physical education, physical activity, dance, and sport is a labor of love, inspired by commitment and dedication.

When he's not helping students through high-ropes courses, chasing snakes out of his teaching space, or participating in Tough Mudders, Mark travels across the US to present to local, state, and national organizations on the topics of teambuilding, icebreaker activities, problem solving, trust building, and adventure games.

It was an absolute honour to have Mark as our guest for #PEChat Radio Hour and I'm so glad he got to melt our faces - or at least our ears - with his incredible passion for Adventure Education.

🙏 A huge thank you to Mark for taking time out of his schedule to help us get fired up about adventure education! Also, thank you to the follow teachers for getting involved during our Q&A session:

👀 You can find the show notes for this #PEChat Radio Hour here: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2021/10/05/pechat-radio-hour-adventure-education/

🥳 Happy Teaching!

#PEChat Radio Hour: Social & Emotional Learning with Karl Mercuri May 25, 2021

Here is the recording from our first-ever #PEChat Radio Hour! For this episode, I connected with Karl Mercuri on Twitter Spaces.

KarlMercuri is the Social and Emotional Learning Coordinator at The Priory School and a private SEL consultant across schools here in the Greater Montreal area. Originally from Melbourne (Australia), Karl actually started his career teaching physical education there. Earlier in his career, Karl was a facilitator of Kidsmatter (now Be You): a Mental Health and Wellbeing Framework that is implemented throughout Australia. He has dedicated his career to supporting effective social and emotional learning in schools. From studying challenging behaviours, to being trained in positive psychology, to completing courses in emotional intelligence and - more recently - training with The Mehrit Centre in self-regulation: Karl has an absolute wealth of knowledge and experience that he can share with the world and I am so excited to have him on the show.

🙏 A huge thank you to Karl for taking time out of his schedule to help us better understand the role of social and emotional learning. Also, thank you to Dan (@gym_stover) for getting involved during our Q&A session!

👀 You can find the show notes for this #PEChat Radio Hour here: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2021/05/25/social-and-emotional-learning-karl-mercuri/

🥳 Happy Teaching!

Our First #PhysEd Pub PD: A #PEChat Recap May 19, 2021

This is a recap of our latest #pechat that took place on Twitter Spaces!

For this #pechat, we hosted a #PhysEd Pub PD: a Space where physical education teachers get to hang out, take turns sharing ideas, and learning from each other.

Shout out to all of the awesome teachers who stepped up and shared an idea during the chat:

• Nathan (@PENathan) who shared an idea on how we can highlight physical activity opportunities that exist our communities.

• Travis (@NorthShoreVB) who shared a game called "Softi Keep Away" that his students love.

• Karl (@Karl_Mercuri) who shared insight into the value of performing emotional check-ins throughout your lessons.

• Dan (@gym_stover) who shared a great way to strengthen relationships at the start of each lesson.

• Kate (@KateCoxPE) who shared how she has focused on infusing her lessons and activities with fun!

• Jo (@LovePhyEd) who shared some insight into her adventure education lessons and talked about meaningful PE.

This was the very first #PhysEd Pub PD that I've hosted as a #pechat and I already can't wait until the next one! I hope that you can join us for the live show on Twitter Spaces. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @phys_educator to be able to join in!

🥳 Happy Teaching!

The Interplanetary Games | My Field Day Guide May 13, 2021

The school year is coming to an end. If you're an elementary school teacher, that means that Field Day season is about to begin!

Having taught elementary school physical education for the past ten years, I've had the responsibility of planning a whole-school Field Day event each school year. Planning an event of this size - with all of its moving parts - can be intimidating. That being said, I decided to sit down and create a walkthrough on how I went about planning my take on Field Day: The Interplanetary Games.

In this episode, you'll learn about:

• The context and origin of my Field Day model.

• How we divided the entire school up into Field Day teams.

• How we used friendly competition to bring students together across grades.

• How we ensured that each station ran like a well-oiled machine.

• The logistics involved in making sure the day was a success.

• The activities we included in our Field Day plans.

• Some tips that I have for teachers getting started with their first Field Day planning.

This episode is accompanied by a show notes blog post in which you'll find additional details, images, and resources that complement what you'll hear about here. Find the show notes here: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2021/05/07/the-interplanetary-games-field-day/

Thanks so much for subscribing, listening, and sharing!

🥳 Happy Teaching!

Health Month - Bringing Your School Community Together Through Health Mar 31, 2021

For the past 10 years, I've used the month of May to bring my school community together through a variety of health-based programs, challenges, and advocacy pieces. I call the whole initiative "Health Month" and it honestly helped transform the way my school focused on health and wellness.

Health Month is an opportunity for you to boost your program's visibility, strengthen partnerships and relationships with families, engage your faculty, and - most importantly - create fun, memorable, learning-based experiences for your students!

The initiative can be broken down into five parts:

🗓 Month-Long Challenges

💪 Physical Activity Week

🧠 Mental Health Week

🍎 Nutrition Week

😴 Sleep Week

Although I cover each of these parts in the podcast, feel free to check out the five blog posts I wrote to complement this episode to see some of the visuals I created and find even more details on Health Month's different resources and challenges. Just click the links above to jump to each blog post!

The version of Health Month that I share in this episode is the product of ten years of tinkering, designing, listening, and evolving. That said, you can access all of the resources I've created for Health Month (including the email templates I sent to parents) in the Health Month Teacher Pack.

This year has been incredibly tough on schools and their communities (not to mention their physical education teachers!) I know from experience that Health Month has the power to unite your school's community all while positioning you as the healthy school champion who makes that happen. I hope that this episode - in combination with the Health Month blog post mini-series and the Health Month Teacher Pack - provides you with everything you need to bring Health Month to your school and give your students, faculty, admin, staff, and families something to cheer about!

As always, thanks for listening and happy teaching! 🙌

The Seeds We Sow: Our Teaching Beyond Teaching Mar 01, 2021

Here's a different kind of episode! Think of this as "Story Time with Joey".

I recently got to hear my friend/mentor Artie Kamiya share a story he called "The Boy, The Rope, & The Truth". The story touched on the lasting impact that teachers can have on the lives of the students they teach.

For today's story time episode, I wanted to share a few stories from my teaching that highlighted the role of our work as educators and how it goes beyond just standards and outcomes.

I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for listening, subscribing, and sharing!

Happy Teaching!

Assessment, Program Goals, & Colleagues: My First Listener Q&A! Feb 22, 2021

🎉 Here is my first-ever Q&A episode!

After hesitating on doing one of these forever, I finally decided to dive in and give this a go. In this episode, I do my best to answer the following three questions (and shout out to the three awesome listeners who shared!):
1. What are your favourite forms of assessment? (submitted by Hector/@hrico90 from Chicago, IL)
2. What are the main skills a student should have when they finish a #physed programme? (submitted by Liam/@olivertwist_2 from the UK/Malaysia)
3. How have you successfully developed meaningful and productive professional relationships with non-H/PE teachers? (submitted by Daniel/@superdanpe from Lexington, KY)

I'll be answering additional questions that were submitted in future editions of this Q&A series! If you'd like to submit a question yourself, you can do so here: https://t.co/VpvVIxzIYx?amp=1

Feel free to check out the show notes for this podcast in which I share additional links and resources that I mentioned in my answers: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2021/02/22/phased-show-podcast-questions-and-answers-001/

Thanks for listening! Happy Teaching!

Embracing Bellyflops: My Virtual Rock-Paper-Scissors Tournament! Feb 09, 2021

Not all moments in our teaching feel like big wins. Sometimes they feel like bellyflops. 🌊

In this episode, I'll be sharing a bellyflop moment from my teaching: the virtual rock-paper-scissors tournament that I organized for my students during the 2020 spring lockdown. My intention here is to help you see how - even when something feels like a total fail - our efforts can still result in lessons to be learned and wins to be celebrated.

It can be so easy to only want to talk about our success stories. That being said, the more we are willing to talk about our bellyflop moments, the more we can learn from them (and help others learn as well!)

Be sure to check out the show notes for this episode of The #PhysEd Show to see and access some of the resources I made for this tournament.

🔗 https://thephysicaleducator.com/2021/02/09/virtual-rock-paper-scissors-tournament/
Thanks for subscribing, listening, and sharing! Happy Teaching!

Begin Again Jan 18, 2021

This is a pretty personal episode for me. I'll be opening up and letting you into some of the health issues that I have been living with. I'll also be sharing what I've done in order to prioritize my health and my family.

You can find a transcript of this podcast here: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2021/01/18/begin-again/

Here are some important resources for anyone who may be suffering from the state of their mental health:

Canada Suicide Prevention Service
Phone: 833-456-4566 SMS: 45645

US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Phone: 1-800-273-8255

Thank you for your support and kindness! 🙏

My 2020 Tech Stack Jan 08, 2021

I oftentimes have to resist the urge to spend time talking about tech. I could waste hours and hours on sites like Product Hunt and YourStack where professionals share insights into the apps they include in their workflows (their tech "stacks").

That being said, it's January and I was looking for a fun way to shake the last remaining holiday vibes and get my mind back into content creation mode. I decided now would be a fine time to sit down and share the apps, tools, gadgets, and gizmos that I made the most use of in 2020.

Be sure to check out the blog post I typed up to complement this episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast in which I share links to everything I mentioned!

Show Notes: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2021/01/08/2020-apps-tools-i-use-the-most/

Rescuing Recess: Helping Recess Thrive In A Global Pandemic Dec 02, 2020

In this episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast, I'll be sharing the strategy that we developed to help ensure that our students had access to engaging, fun, and safe recess experiences as they returned to school this fall in the middle of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

By the end of this episode, you will be able to:

Understand why recess needs to be a part of the school day at your school.
Know what the experts are saying in regards to COVID-19 recommendations for recess.
Be able to list a few key strategies/considerations for implementing safe, meaningful, and fun recess at your school in this COVID-19 reality.

This episode is completed by a show notes blog post in which you will be able to find additional information, resources, links, and graphics that will help you better understand and review some of the ideas that I share here. You can find the blog post here.

My Standards-Based Striking & Fielding Games Unit! Nov 23, 2020

Learn more about the standards-based striking and fielding games unit that I designed for my grade 6 students in this episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast!

This episode will walk you through - step-by-step - the process I use to design standards-based units for my physical education program. In it, you will learn:

The SHAPE America grade-level outcomes that I built this unit around.
How I determined the evidence of learning I would seek out throughout the unit.
The assessment tools I created/used to capture that evidence.
The learning activities I built to help students develop the skills, knowledge, and understandings outlined in the grade-level outcomes.

This podcast was recorded to complement the MASSIVE Teacher Pack blog post that I wrote for this unit. Be sure to check that post out to learn more!

Show Links:

⚾️The Striking & Fielding Games Teacher Pack (Blog Post)

📑The Striking & Fielding Games Teacher Pack (Resources)

🎓#PhysEdU Standards-Based Instructional Design Course (Use code "LEARNWITHJOEY" at checkout - valid until December 31, 2020)

🗺Designing Learning Roadmaps | The #PhysEd Show Vlog (subscribe to my channel on Youtube!)

💯Meaningful Grades In Physical Education (Blog Post)

🗂Student Portfolios in Physical Education (Blog Post)

📱Numbers Gradebooks (Blog Post)

The Dragon Run: Organizing A Virtual Community Running Event Nov 17, 2020

Learn more about how I organized a virtual running event for my school's community during the spring lockdown of 2020.

👀 Show Notes: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2020/11/17/planning-a-virtual-running-event/

The purpose of this episiode is to provide you with an overview of how to plan, organize, and run a virtual running event that can help strengthen your school's community should your school move to distance learning in the future. Here are the learning targets I built the episode around:

I understand the value of maintaining/strengthening connections within my school’s community in a distance learning setting.
I know what to take into consideration as I plan a virtual running event for my school’s community.
I can create an action plan that will help me successfully host a virtual running event at my school.

Don't forget to subscribe to The #PhysEd Show Podcast on Anchor! You may also be interested in subscribing to my YouTube channel to never miss out on future episodes of The #PhysEd Show Vlog. Finally - if you haven't already - subscribe to my newsletter to never miss any of the new content I make for you!

Happy Teaching!

Jigsaw Learning in Physical Education Feb 20, 2020

Learn more about how you can use the jigsaw method - a cooperative learning strategy - to help your students feel more engaged, active, and valued in your lessons!

The SAMR Model Feb 06, 2020

Learn more about you can gradually and purposefully integrate technology into your teaching in this episode of The #PhysEd Show!

Teaching With Intention Jan 13, 2020

Learn more about how to set clear intentions for learning in your physical education lessons in this episode of The #PhysEd Show!

Setting Professional Growth Goals Jan 02, 2020

Learn more about how to set effective, measurable goals for your professional growth as a physical education teacher in this episode of The #PhysEd Show!

Student Feedback In Physical Education Jul 24, 2018

For years now, I've wanted to have my students assess my teaching in order to help me set better goals for my professional development. This past June, in a year that involved a huge amount of personal and professional changes in my life that I feared had an negative impact on my teaching, I had my grade six class anonymously assess my teaching. Listen in to learn more about what they were asked, how they answered, and where I'll be going from here!

Physical Literacy: A Parent's Perspective w/ Amanda Stanec Feb 12, 2018

As a soon-to-be dad, I've been thinking a lot lately about how I am going to help raise my son into a physically literate individual. To learn more about physical literacy from a parent's perspective, I invited Dr. Amanda Stanec onto the show. Listen in to learn more about physical literacy, the community players who influence the development of it, and the role that parents can play to help their children value and participate in physical activity.

Assessment For Learning w/ Terri Drain Dec 07, 2017

In this episode, I invited Terri Drain onto the show to share her thoughts, ideas, and experience in regards to assessment for learning. Listen in to learn more about the difference between assessment FOR learning and assessment OF learning, to hear about what assessment for learning can look like in a physical education lesson, and to figure out what steps you can be taking today in order to make assessment for learning a part of your teaching practice!

Walk & Talks In Physical Education Nov 11, 2017

In this very first podcast episode of The #PhysEd Show, I share one of my favourite teaching tactics: Walk & Talks! Listen in to learn how I use this tactic in my teaching and how I plan on improving the procedures surrounding it in order to create opportunities for student conversations that are both equitable and deep!

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