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.
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.
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.
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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.
Experiential Learning
Outdoor Education: Introduction to Kayaking Safety & Risk Management
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.
Wellness
What is going right with you? Who are you at your best?
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.
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.