Presentations
Specialist Content Areas
Insider Knowledge – How To Teach Gymnastics Skills
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.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Sports & Coaching
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.
Specialist Content Areas
Rhythmic Gymnastics: Making Movement A Meaningful Learning Experience
We will inquire, explore and learn how to use different rhythmic gymnastics apparatus and the process of creating a movement composition.
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.
Specialist Content Areas
Gamification for Individual Pursuits
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.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Wellness
Reflecting on, and for, Meaningful PE
Participants will learn about and engage in several forms of reflective practice and begin to apply them to their own unique contexts.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice, Leadership
Why Should We Provide Equitable Opportunities for Students in our Physical Education Curriculums?
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.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Sports & Coaching
Enhancing the PE Experience through Integrating Sports Competitions Formats
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.
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.
Experiential Learning
Not Just Kickball; Using Progressions to Teach Striking and Fielding Games to Elementary PE students in an International Context
This presentation will be an inquiry-driven look into the essential elements of striking and fielding 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
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!
Specialist Content Areas
Adapting Fundamental Floor Skills into Pair and Trio Balances
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.
Sports & Coaching, Leadership
Preparing for and Entering the Early Days as an AD
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!
Specialist Content Areas, Technology in PE
Brain Fitness and Tech in PhysEd
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.
Pedagogy & Curriculum, Sports & Coaching, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
Reconsidering your Approach to Inclusion
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.