In this session we will discuss some ways to increase student engagement and motivation by Gamifying your Physical Education Program.
You will come away with ideas on how to repurpose games and activities to make them more engaging for students.
We will also get practical with some Gamified Activities to give you an example of what a Gamified Lesson might look like.
We will explore how using a Comprehensive School Health (CSH) approach can enhance your PE & Sport Programming and simultaneously lead other areas of your school beyond the context of PE and school sport. We will explore these learnings from a new school perspective and an international perspective in both private and public education. We will highlight successes and barriers from an administrative perspective and a teacher’s perspective and guide you through solutions based thinking to enhance your leadership.
Come explore this CSH framework and it’s practical components which enhance your PE & Sport teaching and programming for the year ahead.
Session Outcomes:
-Delegates will leave with sample lesson plans which focus on CSH components, student competencies and elements of social emotional learning
-Delegates will learn how CSH can live within their school culture from multiple perspectives as leaders in PE & Sport programming
-Delegates will have an opportunity to learn about how to provide leadership around a CSH framework from multiple perspectives within a healthy school both inside and outside of their PE & Sport programming
-Delegates will gain valuable insight to barriers and challenges encountered in the areas of this framework with solutions based approaches for their schools
-Delegates will receive simple lesson plan and conversation ideas on how they can establish a healthy school culture and leave a legacy of wellness throughout their PE & Sport programming and beyond
-Delegates will have an opportunity to participate in QPE activities within our session which they can use come fall.
For years, thoughtful physical education teachers have explored the concept of "Universal Design" in order to provide the most equitable physical education experience for all children and youth. As more and more children with disabilities are being included into general physical education classes, there is a urgent need to determine what variables are at work.
This presentation will introduce the Lieberman/Brian Inclusive Rating Scale for Physical Education (LIRSPE) as one tool to evaluate program progress. This valid and reliable instrument can help all teachers be more successful at addressing the needs of all children. Participants will also learn the various ways the instrument can be used to their advantage and how to get it!
Floorball is a friendly, safe and inexpensive modern type of soft hockey, tackling and interference is not allowed. Floorball is very inclusive and flexible, ideal for coed and mixed age groups. It is played with a light weight carbon fiber stick, a plastic ball and gym shoes. Mostly played for fun and recreation but there are national leagues, World championships and floorball is part of the World games (Birmingham, Alabama 2021), special Olympics and an Exhibition sport in the 2020 Olympics in Japan.
The session will present a sport that in northern Europe, primarily the Scandinavian countries, has grown from nothing to become one of the largest teamsports in only 30 years. In Sweden Floorball is the second largest team sport after soccer when measured by licensed players, and by far the largest team sport when measured by recreational players.
The presentation will cover the following topics:
And we will of course have some great fun and play Floorball !
This activity-based session will assist participants will learn how to implement an effective touch rugby unit in to their PE classes. Suitable for inside or outside and for all students, this lifelong physically active sport has a long tradition of camaraderie, values and ethical behavior.
Learning through playing some games, participants will learn simple activities that they can implement with their students to teach this active fast paced exciting and unique sport. This is an activity that is exciting and engaging for most students due to its novelty and the student centered learning that takes place. It is truly a team game in that all players get to run, pass, score, defend, attack etc.,Let Pete Charrette (Cap’n Pete’s Power PE) show you some extremely fun, fast moving and energy boosting fitness-based and manipulative skill activities that are ideal for large group elementary school classes that help students “start their engines” and “develop their skills”.
The activities are standards-based and align with SHAPE America’s current grade level outcomes. The session will include a mix of high energy music, fitness-based activity, manipulative skill movement and participant discussion.
The presentation will help provide new and experienced teachers with some practical, “cutting edge” movement activities that their students will really enjoy. The activities are non-conventional and fun, giving students new ways to enjoy movement which can serve as a catalyst to lead lifelong, healthy and active lifestyles.
The main goal of the presentation is for participants to come away understanding the value of providing their students with non-conventional, fun fitness-based and manipulative skill activities as a method of “engaging” them in their own personal fitness and motor-skill development.
This session will give you the knowledge and specific lessons needed to go back and train your classroom teachers on how to incorporate physical activity into their standards based curriculum.
Objective One: Attendees will have the skills to teach classroom teachers how to manage space, equipment and students in a changing environment.
Objective Two: Attendees will leave with the materials to implement lessons upon their return to school.
Objective Three: Attendees will see the “win win” of putting this extra work in to get part of your physical education standards into the traditional classroom setting without a product.