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QUALITY PHYSICAL EDUCATION ADVOCACY
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EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES
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  • Assessment
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  • Effective Teaching Strategies - General
  • Effective Teaching Strategies - English Language Learners
  • Effective Teaching Strategies - ​Adapted Physical Education
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  • Planning Physical Education Units​
  • Domains of Learning and Writing Learning Objectives
  • ​​Instructional Models in Physical Education
  • Teaching Styles in Physical Education​​​
  • Assessment in Physical Education
  • ​Rubric Guidelines and Examples
  • ​Grading in Physical Education
  • Fitnessgram Guidelines and Resources
  • Class Management Guidelines​
  • ​Tools for Assessing Behavior​
  • ​Resources for Building Character and Conflict Resolution​
  • ​Strategies for Forming Groups​
TEACHing tools and RESOURCES
  • Teacher Resources
  • Fitness
  • Instructional Videos
  • Professional Development
  • Technology
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  • Physical Education Related Organizations
  • Resources for Physical Education Lessons
  • ​​​Safety Related Resources​
  • ​​Resources for Physical Education DIY and Hacks​​
  • Physical Education Related National Observances​​
  • ​​​The Importance of Recess, Play, and Active Classrooms​​
  • Examples of Creative Fitness Activities
  • ​​​​Strategies for Activity Promotion and Adherence​
  • Resources for Stress Management​
  • Online Resources for Health, Fitness, and Nutrition
  • Icebreakers, Teambuilding, and Conflict Resolution
  • Dance - Overview and Resources
  • Dance - Folk and Line
  • Dance - POCO LOCOs
  • Dance - Ballroom and Social Dance​
  • Information and Resources for Professional Development​
  • ​Social Media Resources for Physical Educators​​
  • ​Teaching Evaluation Forms for Physical Educators​
  • ​Technology Guides for Physical Education
  • Apps for Physical Education
  • Online Technology Resources
  • ​Projector Uses in Physical Education
  • ​Virtual Reality in Physical Education
  • 360 Degree Photos and Videos in Physical Education
  • Augmented Reality and QR Codes in Physical Education

Instructional Models in Physical Education

  • Overview
  • Selecting a Model
  • Related Pages
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  • An Example of a Starting Point for Models Based Practice​
  • Adopting a Models-Based Approach to Teaching Physical Education
  • Between Hope and Happening: Problematizing the M and the P in Models-Based Practice
  • How to Motivate Students in PE Through Proven Instructional Models
  • Model Based Approaches
  • Model Fidelity
  • ​​Where to Start? Finding a Pedagogical Place for a Pedagogical Model

Components of a Model
  • A theoretical foundation.
  • Intended learning outcomes.
  • Teacher’s content knowledge expertise.
  • Developmentally appropriate and sequenced learning activities.
  • Expectations for teacher and student behaviors.
  • Unique task structures.
  • Assessments of learning outcomes.
  • Benchmarks for assessing the implementation of the model.
Questions to Ask Regarding the Unit
  • What do I want my students to learn about the content?
  • Which models have those same priorities?
  • What are the contextual requirements for those models?
  • How well does my context meet those requirements?
  • What are the teacher and student prerequisites for the remaining models?
  • Do I and my students have enough of those prerequisites?
  • What modifications will I need to make for each model?
​Instructional Models for Physical Education. ​Metzler, M. (2011). 
  • Planning Physical Education Units​
  • Domains of Learning and Writing Learning Objectives​
  • ​Teaching Styles in Physical Education​​​
 
Cooperative Learning
  • Can Cooperative Learning Achieve the Four Learning Outcomes of Physical Education? A Review of Literature
  • Cooperative Games
  • Cooperative Learning Activities
  • Cooperative Learning in #PhysEd: Putting the Pieces Together
  • ​Cooperative Learning in Physical Education Encountering Dewey’s Educational Theory
  • ​​Creating a Tag Game using Cooperative Learning​​
  • ​​Routines through Cooperation​
  • Sink or Swim Together​

Jigsaw Cooperative Learning from Jorge Rodriguez on Vimeo.

Jigsaw Tagging Game from Jorge Rodriguez on Vimeo.

DIRECT INSTRUCTION
  • Direct Instruction is a Model Too
#EDCAMP PE
  • #EdCamp PE - A New Model of Instruction Where Students Lead the Way
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HEALTH BASED PHYSICAL EDUCATION
  • Health-Related Fitness Models in Physical Education​​
  • ​Toward the Development of a Pedagogical Model for Health-Based Physical Education

INQUIRY BASED LEARNING
  • 3 Ways to Learn More about Inquiry-Based Learning​​
  • ​Inquiry-Based Learning in Health and Physical Education​
  • Inquiry Based Lesson (video 1)
  • Inquiry Based Lesson (video 2)

PERSONALIZED SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION
  • Effect of Personalized System of Instruction on Health-Related Fitness Knowledge and Class Time Physical Activity​
  • Learning Basketball Skills Using PSI Teaching Progression Model​
  • ​Personalized System of Instruction Model: Teaching Health-Related Fitness Content in High School Physical Education
  • ​​The Personalized System of Instruction in Fitness Education​

Example 1 - Volleyball Serve (using Google Forms)
Example 2 - Soccer Pass Quest (using Google Forms)
SKILL THEMES
Articles​
  • Children Moving: A Reflective Approach to Teaching PE
  • Learning to Throw in a Physical Education Class
  • ​Skill Themes PowerPoint (PDF)
Resources
  • ​FMS Manipulative Skill Posters​
  • ​Functional Motor Pattern Posters​​
  • Movement Concepts Posters​
  • Resources for Physical Education Lessons
  • scoilnet - FMS and Activities

Example Progression
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Example Progression of Tasks
Movement Concept Wheel
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Children Moving: A Reflective Approach to Teaching Physical Education
Movement Concept Wheel
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SPORT EDUCATION
  • ​A Models Based Approach to PE: Sport Education
  • ​Creating a Sustainable System for Sport Education Units
  • ​Developing Assessment within the Sport Education Model
  • ​​Episode 51 - A Sport Education (podcast)​
  • Implementing a Sport Education Unit into Your PE Curriculum
  • ​Maximize Engagement: Sport Ed. & TGfU Hybrid Units
  • No Holds Barred - S​tudent Role Involvement During a Unit of Sport Ed
  • Pedagogy Seminar on Sport Education with Hastie and Wallhead (podcast)
  • Reflecting on a #SportEd Season
  • ​​Using GSuite for Sport Education​

  • ​Example Unit Plans (scroll down page)​​
  • Sport Education - General Resources​
  • ​Sport Education Unit Visuals
  • Sport Education Lesson (video)

Youtube Playlist
​Non-Traditional Scoring - Examples for Culminating Events
Non-Traditional Scoring
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TEACHING GAMES FOR UNDERSTANDING, TACTICAL GAMES APPROACH, and Game Sense
  • ​A Models Based Approach to PE: TGfU
  • A Tactical Games Approach Session in Rugby
  • Breaking Down The Teaching Games for Understanding Model
  • ​​Game Design by iPhys-Ed​
  • Game Sense as Explicit Guided Discovery
  • Getting It (TGFU)​
  • Inquire to Inspire: Making Mindful Movers ​​
  • ​Maximize Engagement: Sport Ed. & TGfU Hybrid Units​
  • ​​Overview of TGfU
  • ​Questioning for Games Based Approaches
  • ​​Teaching Games for Understanding 101
  • ​Thinking Differently not Just Well​

Example Activities and Lessons
  • ​​Example Unit Plans​
  • My Journey to Implement TSAP and A TGFU Badminton Unit
  • ​PlaySport Example Activities
  • Teaching Games for Understanding Activity Support Package​​

​Resources
  • Game Sense Wall Posters​​
  • Problem-Diagnosis Frameworks​
TEACHING PERSONAL & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
  • Comparison of Learning Effects of Merging TPSR Respectively with Sport Education and Traditional Teaching Model in High School PE
  • Disciplining Students by Promoting Responsibility​
  • Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Alliance
  • Teaching Physical and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity

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