Within this session, the framework of the workshop will be set to discuss the importance of supporting the needs of all students with Mindfulness practice to ensure it is a trauma-informed practice.
Shane Russell
This interactive session will be engaging from start to finish. Be it online or in person, I know what its like to simply sit and listen, which is why there is a huge importance placed on audience members being involved.
Nick Haywood
We will work together in exploring how we can use the foundations of Adaptive Schools strategies, approaches, and activities and combine them with my passion for creative play.
Patrick Hughes
The focus of equity and inclusion in education is that we are able to cater to the needs of ALL our student learners.
Dr. Monika Dewan
Using the National Health Education Standards and the National Sex Education Standards, this workshop will focus on building digital & media literacy skills in health education, with an emphasis on exploring how sexually explicit media impact young people and their views on sex, sexuality, and relationships.
Dr. Rachael Gibson
In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the pursuit of academic excellence goes hand in hand with holistic approaches to student well-being. "Beyond Boundaries" is an innovative workshop designed to empower educators, administrators, and students alike with a comprehensive toolkit for enhancing student performance through the integration of three essential pillars: Breathwork, Biometrics, and Academic Coursework.
Ricardo Urbina, Donna Norkeliunas
In this session, we will explore the challenges and strategies for navigating toxic workplaces in the field of sports leadership.
Rachel Ford
In this presentation, the participants will be able to gain insights into the intent, teaching processes and assessments of students’ learning outcomes using student-centred approach for conceptual teaching in Physical Education lessons.
Yong Chooi Cheng Mabel, Shang Thian Huat, Kwok Hui Min
Vicki Gill
This presentation introduces educators to the basics of personal safety for students who are tweens and teens. As such students become more independent from the adults in their lives, it is important for them to develop a sense of personal safety.
Stefan Spiess
This workshop will overview setting classroom ground rules, designing student-centered learning activities, answering student questions, and will dig deep into the ‘why’ behind keeping all genders together for puberty education.
Emily Zien
Sexual violence is prevalent across the world and breaks barriers of background, ethnicity, economics etc. The health and social impact for people who have been through sexual violence can be huge. It is important that we teach young people to be safe but more importantly not to harm each other.
Susie March
A focus on why relationship education is so vital within a comprehensive health program.
Susie March
This session will provide attendees with best practice and the latest research on curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. It has been created with the hope that you and/or your PE department can reflect on your current school's PE context and make any necessary changes to curriculum, pedagogy, and/or assessment to improve learning experiences for your students.
Marcus Down
This session will provide an overview of the benefits of a grad degree as professional learning and outline some available options.
Doug Gleddie, Lauren Sulz
In this session, I will share various games I have used during individual pursuit activities such as Dance, Gymnastics, and Fitness. These games provide both individual and group movement explorations and I hope you will take some ideas away and apply them in your own lessons. Get ready to move while playing... Mario Kart Fitness, Disco Uno, and Emoji Stacker.
Megan Lockett
"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.
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Michelle Grenier
Good PE teachers don't always make good Athletic Directors. It takes much more than just a knowledge of curriculum and sport to run a successful athletic program. Are you in your first year of being an AD? Juggling a dual role in PE and coordinating sports teams? Have aspirations to some day become an AD? Join me for some tips to get ahead of the game before you're in too deep and sinking. If you're an experienced AD, this probably isn't for you, but you're welcome to come along and share as well!
Thomas Mathews
Pedagogy & Curriculum
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.
Shane Pill, Brendan SueSee
Pedagogy & Curriculum
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).
Shane Pill, Brendan SueSee
A discussion about diversity, equity, and inclusion in physical education. In this presentation, Dominique will discuss context, wider responsibilities, and how we can get there as physical educators.
In this session Dominique builds on his keynote presentation and expands into HOW to provide equitable opportunities for our students.
Dominique Dalais
Play with Purpose: Developing Touch football from simple to complex game forms using deliberate play
In this workshop, we will explore a sequence of learning progressing Touch football from simple to complex games using a non-linear approach to deliberate play. How to vary the game form so the sequence can be used for non-contact modified ‘walla’ Rugby (Union) and tag Rugby League will also feature.
Shane Pill
A discussion about diversity, equity, and inclusion in physical education. In this presentation, Dominique will discuss context, wider responsibilities, and how we can get there as physical educators.
Dominique Dalais
Pedagogy & Curriculum
This workshop will review the planning and teaching of Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS), looking at how many and which FMS are best learnt using a Game Based Approach.
Rachel Ford, Rick Baldock
Integrating technology into physical activities to enhance learners executive function, which supports learning through better focussed attention, and memory through dual tasks (the layering of complexity NOT multi-tasking!) Best of all it's fun, active and progressive and can give data on individual learners and their progress.
Sarah Cole, Anna Milani
The joy of learning through engagement is a key factor in student satisfaction in PE. As adults, we still look forward to ‘game-time’ where we pit our skills against others.
Daniel Wee, Saravana Pillai (Dr) Arjunan
In this practical-based workshop, two Singapore PE teachers will share how they design their lessons to nurture self-directed learners through practical strategies underpinned by assessment and feedback literacy. Practical Strategies include self & peer assessment tools, thinking routines, the use of rubrics, data collection as performance indicators, etc. Participants will be able to experience strategies and tools designed in schools that encourage students to play an active role in their learning.
Louis Ho, Stella Yap
This presentation will be an inquiry-driven look into the essential elements of striking and fielding games.
Tyrone Reeder
Pedagogy & Curriculum
This presentation demonstrates why and how to use literature as a pedagogical frame for encouraging children to move with purpose.
Zack Smith
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
Christopher Pahl
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.
Bobby Reed
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.
Wyatt Cameron, Prianka Singh
Understanding these intertwined threads and how they interact matters for the development and support of healthy school communities where all members can flourish.
Doug Gleddie, Lauren Sulz
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.
Lauren Sulz
Participants will learn about and engage in several forms of reflective practice and begin to apply them to their own unique contexts.
Doug Gleddie
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?
Gemma Coles
Gymnastics Skills challenge our pupils to do things that they wouldn’t ordinarily do! These lead to improving their strength, flexibility, speed, balance, coordination, endurance and power. These skills however may appear extremely daunting to teach. Throughout this workshop we will share hints and tips to enable you to confidently teach a wide variety of Gymnastics Skills.
Gemma Coles
The Fundamental Gymnastics Shapes are the essential core skills for all Gymnastics lessons. In this hour long workshop we will run through an extensive list of floor shapes demonstrating how they can be incorporated into both Pair and Trio Balances.
Gemma Coles
Pedagogy & Curriculum
The Reproduction Cluster Styles - The most used styles like it or not! This workshop will demonstrate practical examples to participants and give participants the opportunity to use the styles so bring your running shoes!
Shane Pill, Brendan SueSee
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.
Shane Pill
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
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.
Sabrina Razack
Experiential Learning
Rob Carmichael
This session will provide an overview of the benefits of a grad degree as professional learning and outline some available options.
Doug Gleddie
Participants will learn about and engage in several forms of reflective practice and begin to apply them to their own unique contexts.
Doug Gleddie
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
This presentation will introduce the concepts and principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how they can be embedded into your physical education program.
Michelle Grenier
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
As building a culture of support and acceptance is our responsibility as educators, in this presentation I will examine some of the biases inherent in physical education and identify strategies that can promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Michelle Grenier
Specialist Content Areas
We will inquire, explore and learn how to use different rhythmic gymnastics apparatus and the process of creating a movement composition.
Leticia Cariño
Pedagogy & Curriculum
This workshop will present fun, alternative ball games/activities to still get your students moving and engaged but use no more than one half of a basketball court.
Dave Robinson
Wellness
This active workshop will give attendees the chance to broaden their knowledge in this area and allow them to participate in a range of practical and fun activities which the presenter has used in a variety of settings to enhance students' core strength and stability (as well as their own).
Dave Robinson
Wellness
In this presentation, we will focus on you. Who you are at your best. During the pandemic and transition into a new normal, it has been easy to forget about taking care of our own wellbeing.
Alison Leathwood
Specialist Content Areas
In this session, I will take you through an entire dance unit. I will show you fun dance games like the beat challenge, dance tag, and follow-the leader that help students learn about rhythm, levels, pathways and force in dance.
Alison Leathwood
Wellness
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.
Amy Lauren Smith
Wellness
In this session, we’ll be exploring resources and techniques to help promote body positivity in the classroom and on the field, while teaching students to view media messages with a critical eye.
Amy Lauren Smith
Technology in PE
Are you a fan of gamification? Have you tried it before? Would you like to? Implementing gamified experiences into your projects, units and even your whole year can be done! We'll be talking about Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation as a way to reach our students learning styles.
Carlos Galvez
Specialist Content Areas
How is swimming related to physical fitness is one of the essential questions that are leading the students to learn different aspects of enduring understanding.
RaLuca Gruin
Leadership
Risk Management; Certifications; Prioritized Aquatic Curriculum; Pool Capabilities; Types of Aquatic Activities, Staffing; Grading System/Policy; Careers in Aquatics.
RaLuca Gruin
Leadership
Risk Management; Certifications; Prioritized Aquatic Curriculum; Pool Capabilities; Types of Aquatic Activities, Staffing; Grading System/Policy; Careers in Aquatics.
Andrei Ghicu
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
As a local student in an international school I lived through many experiences that I didn't understand until very recently. In 2019, students at international schools around the world began to protest against schools that were impeding them from their own values, traditions and languages.
Carlos Galvez
Sports & Coaching
Practical strategies to implement in school and within your sports program to support those with female physiology. Including injury prevention, nutrition and education on the menstrual cycle.
Cassandra Till
Wellness
Introduction to Break it Kids - Introducing a new and unique interactive movement break for young learners, to promote physical, emotional and mental well-being and help kids self-regulate.
Lorena Maré, Philip Maré
Pedagogy & Curriculum
Embodied affectivity in physical education is a brief explanation of my research on the affective domain of learning in PE (in my case in the Early Years but potentially relevant to other age groups). I would discuss what is observable and meaningful to both the students and teacher, and offer pedagogical strategies to support student learning.
Will Patz
Sports & Coaching
In this session, Andy will share what the latest applied research tells us makes a genuine high-performing team.
Andy Longley
Pedagogy & Curriculum
Whether you are new to teaching or you have been doing this for ages we promise you will leave this session with a new trick in your classroom management toolbox.
Nick Walklet, Matt Lucas
Sports & Coaching
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.
Adrian Martinez Gomez
Sports & Coaching
Adrian Martinez Gomez
Leadership
Research into the physical inactivity pandemic underscores the importance of a system-wide approach to promoting and increasing physical activity behavior at the population level. The familiar adage in reference to this evidence base is “it takes a village to get a child to be physically active.” But what does it take to bring a village together and build the school wide support essential to ensuring each student meets physical activity guidelines and benefits from quality physical education?
Collin Webster
Sports & Coaching
Nick will dig deeper into sections of his brand new book, "A Global Playbook" that directly relate to coaches and what coaches can do to improve the athletic program at their school.
Nick DeForest
Pedagogy & Curriculum
This symposium will provide a introduction to the Spectrum of Teaching styles and explore its use through several context: Physical Education, Coaching and Outdoor Education
Brendan SueSee, Shane Pill, Mitchell Hewitt, Joss Rankin
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
There are a growing number of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) students in schools. Many schools are receiving whole-school training to support TGD students.
Simon Scarborough
Pedagogy & Curriculum
This presentation demonstrates why and how to use literature as a pedagogical frame for encouraging children to move with purpose.
Zack Smith
Pedagogy & Curriculum
Put some of your P.E. classes on autopilot using proven games with pool noodles. We use lots of animal stories in the games to keep your students engaged, have fun and optimize their learning
Dominique Chiquet
Wellness
New British and Australian Guidance recommends that young women, aged 12-17, should be taught about pelvic floor anatomy, pelvic floor exercises and how to prevent dysfunction in later life.
Katy Megson
Wellness
Nearly 64% of girls miss school because of their periods (not just PE classes) 41% of 14-16 year old girls say that their periods stop them form participating in sport 80% of teachers feel they don't have the knowledge or confidence to teach this topic.
Jenny Fielding, Hayley Iwaszko
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
Christopher Pahl
Pedagogy & Curriculum
The PhysEd LOTus program is a differentiated program that grows the development of skills in each student at ‘their’ level of learning.
Andy Hair
Pedagogy & Curriculum
This session aims to share the potential benefits, and desired learning outcomes, of the Sport Education approach, while also sharing practical tips on how to implement this pedagogical approach within your upper Primary classroom.
Joshua Simpson
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Wellness
“I just needed more time for that lesson.” “My students just aren’t connecting.” “I wonder how I can get them to work together more during that lesson.” Do any of these quotes sound familiar as you reflect on your lessons. This session is for you.
Aaron Beighle
Pedagogy & Curriculum
This session aims to provide teachers (both classroom and specialist) with fun & engaging ideas, games and strategies that you can implement into your classroom in order to build positive connections from Day 1.
Joshua Simpson
Pedagogy & Curriculum
This activity-based session will provide many strategies for using student voice to guide students on a journey that makes physical activity an important part of their lives.
Aaron Beighle, Greg Dryer
Wellness
We will explore how to define what is important, create a system to help us be more productive and efficient, and look internally to convince yourself that you are worthy of self-care. What we do matters.
Aaron Beighle
Wellness, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
How determination and perseverance has lead me on a path towards overcoming obstacles, discrimination and anxiety.
Dominique Dalais