Presentations

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.

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.

"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. "

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.

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.

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.

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.

Participants will learn about and engage in several forms of reflective practice and begin to apply them to their own unique contexts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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