Shane Pill

Professor, Flinders University

Shane Pill (PhD) is a Professor in Education at Flinders University, Kaurna Yerta: Adelaide, South Australia. Shane is one of Australia’s leading thinkers and innovators in games and sport teaching, sport coaching, and sport development. He teaches and researches in physical education and sport pedagogy, curriculum, sport coaching, sport development, and educational leadership. Shane has over 250 scholarly and academic publications, and he summarises many of these papers and his thoughts on teaching and sport coaching at the Learning Through Sport blog. Shane is a highly sought after speaker, consultant and collaborator, including for review of school curriculum. He has been an active sports coach across several sports since 1988, and has worked with several sports on sport for schools programs and competitive engineering of junior and youth programs. He formerly taught physical education and science in schools for 18 years, where he was a Head of Department, Years Level Coordinator, Sport Coordinator and Deputy Principal. Shane is a Life Member and Fellow of the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER).

Upcoming Presentations

Teaching or Coaching Volleyball by Play with Purpose: Developing Players Game Sense

This practical, on-court workshop demonstrates how to transform volleyball instruction using the Play with Purpose framework.

Developing Cultural Understanding: Another Element of Physical Literacy

This practical, interactive, movement-based workshop invites you to "decolonise" your PE curriculum. You will participate in a selection of curated ‘traditional’ games, experiencing not just the rules but the histories, protocols, and cultural storytelling embedded within the games.

Pre-conference: Thematic and Concept-based Curriculum Design for PE: A Game-Based Approach from K-12

This practical, one-day workshop led by Professor Shane Pill invites PE teachers from across Elementary, Middle, and High School to think about curriculum content as key concepts structured through a thematic curriculum design. Concept-based PE has been found to be more likely than conventional PE to promote out-of-school physical activity and to build the habit of mind to be active into the future.

13 Nov (Friday) - 09:00 - 16:00

Past Presentations

How the Science of Learning Applies to Curriculum Design and Teaching for Effective Learning in Physical Education

In this presentation, I share how this applies to quality curriculum design and teaching in physical education.

Play with Purpose: Teaching Striking/fielding Games Through Creativity and Problem-Solving

In this workshop, we use the sport of cricket as the subject matter to teach creativity and discovery through games making.

Play with Purpose: Developing Australian Football (AFL9S) Using Simple to Complex Game Progressions to Teach For Understanding

In this workshop, you will participate in a learning sequence commencing with the ‘basic’ invasion game logic and progressing through a series of rule modifications to finish at the game of AFL9s. AFL9s is the community recreation non-contact version of Australian football (AFL).

Decolonising Physical Education

In this workshop, you will participate in a range of indigenous games that will enable you to teach a culturally diverse and global perspective on games and sport.

Play with Purpose: Touch football

In this workshop, you will participate in a learning sequence progressing from a entry level simple game form with minimal rules while retaining the ‘core logic’ of the game, progressing through a series of rule modifications to finish at the game of Touch.

Play with Purpose: Developing Australian Football (AFL9s) Using Simple to Complex Game Progressions Incorporating Progressive Game Modifications to Teach for Understanding

In this workshop, you will participate in a learning sequence commencing with the ‘basic’ invasion game logic and progressing through a series of rule modifications to finish at the game of AFL9s.

Big Talks for Little People: Mental Health Education

“Have you seen the headlines?” Globally, children’s mental health was in decline prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and coming out of it, research is showing that mental health issues are more common among young people.
Pedagogy & Curriculum

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.
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).

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. 
Pedagogy & Curriculum

Spectrum of Teaching Styles in PE – Styles A-E

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!

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.
Pedagogy & Curriculum

Spectrum Symposium- How the SOTS can Assist with Coaching, Outdoor Education and PE

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

6 Dec (Tuesday) - 14:00 - 15:30
Pedagogy & Curriculum Sports & Coaching

Meaningful Games and Sport Curriculum

Game-based approaches (GBAs) are popularised because of the emphasis on teaching games for understanding. GBAs bring a focus to the explicit teaching of game understanding and, thus, meaningful game participation.

15 Sep (Wednesday) - 08:00 - 09:00
Pedagogy & Curriculum Sports & Coaching

Game-Based Teaching and Coaching as a Spectrum of Teaching Styles

The Spectrum of Teaching Styles (The Spectrum ) is both a philosophy and a model. It is a philosophy of deliberate teaching. As a model, it outlines the process leading toward ever-increasing student (or in sport coaching, player) independent learning.

17 Sep (Friday) - 08:00 - 09:00
Pedagogy & Curriculum

How The Spectrum of Teaching Styles can help Models Based Practice (MBP) fly further highlighting the complexity of models

The Spectrum of Teaching styles is one of the most thoroughly researched models in not just PE, but education.

17 Sep (Friday) - 11:00 - 12:00