Presentations

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.
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. "
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.
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.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice

DEIJ 101

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.
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.
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!
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.
Pedagogy & Curriculum

Creative Uses of Limited Space

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.
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, Specialist Content Areas, Wellness, Sports & Coaching, Technology in PE, Remote and Hybrid Instruction, Leadership

The International HPE MEd Cohort: What’s it all about?

This session will provide an overview of the benefits of a grad degree as professional learning and outline some available options.
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, 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.