Presentations

Pedagogy & Curriculum

Spectrum of Teaching Styles in PE – Styles F-K

The Production Cluster Styles” – The Styles associated with Creativity. This workshop will demonstrate practical examples to participants and give participants the opportunity to use the styles so bring your running shoes! NB: You do not need to have done workshop 1, to do workshop 2 (and vice versa).
Specialist Content Areas

Bite-size Gymnastics Master Class

Looking to introduce some new ideas to uplift and re-energise your Gymnastics’ lessons? Would you like to be able to break Gymnastics skills down into bite size activities to make them easier or harder to achieve based on the competency levels of your gymnasts? Need to challenge your pupils, but are unsure of the technical teaching points?
Specialist Content Areas, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice

Embedding Disability Sports within the Physical Education Curriculum

"What are Disability/Adapted/Para sports and why are they important to include in your physical education program? This presentation will demonstrate the use of disability and adapted sports such as sitting volleyball and goalball as a way to teach sport specific skills that can align with your curriculum while providing a unique sporting experience that can enhance knowledge of disability sports. "
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice

The Evolving Landscape of Girls and Women in Physical Education

The evolving landscape of sport and physical activity settings calls for a re-examination of pedagogies and practices. More specifically, how to adequately address the needs of girls and women within physical education.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Sports & Coaching

Visible Thinking in Physical Education and Sports Coaching

This session begins with the premise that 'thinking is the engine of learning' and explores how we can support game-based practical approaches with an environment, intentional questions, and purposeful interactional routines to enhance thinking
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Specialist Content Areas

The Latest in Growth, Development, and Sexual Health

During this workshop, we’ll explore the latest in resources to help you address topics such as consent, sexting, and the influence of pornography in an authentic way to help meet your students where they’re at.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Wellness, Sports & Coaching, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice, Leadership

Evolution of Physical Education

In this presentation, we will look at examples of how Health and Physical Education from K-10 and sport coaching ‘at the leading edge’ is responding to current challenges.
Wellness

Why Wellness Matters

Understanding these intertwined threads and how they interact matters for the development and support of healthy school communities where all members can flourish.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Wellness

Interactive Health Education Activities for Grades 7 to 12

This session will explore strategies to support student learning in human sexuality, social and emotional competencies, and mental health. Walk away from this session with concrete ideas that align with Health Education curricula outcomes, including ready-to-use lesson plans and in-class activities.
Sports & Coaching

Teaching the Mechanics and skill sets to ice hockey

During this presentation, participants will learn about the skill sets to ice hockey through the experiences of floor hockey. Such skills to be explored are stick handling, passing, shooting, positions and small area games.
Sports & Coaching

Rethinking the Educational Suitability of Sports Seasons

Have you ever had students tell you that they wished they could play their favorite sports for more than just 3 months a year? Sports seasons have been around for so long that we hardly think that not only could we do it differently, but there are even strong educational reasons why we should, at least, start having this conversation with our communities.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Sports & Coaching

Using Cricket to teach creativity and problem-solving

This workshop will use the sport of cricket as the subject matter to teach creativity and discovery. Examples will range from simple skills through to more complex games.
Experiential Learning

Super Moverz Adventure Play

This presentation will provide teachers with a dynamic new approach to teaching movement and play by integrating storylines, music, specialized equipment, and role play into a fully gamified movement and character building program called Super Moverz.