♿️ Every child, regardless of ability, deserves to have access to effective, meaningful physical education experiences. However, many educators struggle with how to design physical education lessons that allow students with disabilities to engage in positive ways both in the learning and with their peers. Knowing this, I was fired up to get to sit down with Jen Heebink, SHAPE America's 2022 National PE Teacher of the Year. Jen has an incredible passion for Unified Physical Education and shares a ton of knowledge and expertise from her experience a both an adapted and unified PE teacher in Minnesota. Are you in for a treat? You betcha!

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👀 Understanding how to align lessons to curriculum outcomes not only helps teachers maximize the impact of their instruction, it also helps them approach their teaching with as much confidence and clarity as possible! In this episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast, I'm going to walk you through a purposeful physical education lesson that I recently had the opportunity to share with teachers here in Nova Scotia.

The lesson was designed to help students reach the following learning targets:

As you listen in, pay attention to the way the lesson's design constantly invites students to reflect on where they are going, where they are now, and how they close the gap. I had a lot of fun putting this one together, so let me know if you would like to hear more lesson walkthrough episodes in the future!

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Designing Learning Roadmaps

Making Sense of Student Learning Targets

What, Why, How Graphics

Plickers Assessment Magnets

🏄‍♂️ Momentum is one of the absolute best feelings we can experience as teachers. It allows us to get more done, feel that we're on top of all of our tasks, and bring new and exciting ideas to our teaching. However, as teachers, we tend to be horrible at creating the conditions required to experience momentum in our work. This contributes to the feelings of overwhelm that are all too familiar to teachers and that can lead to stress, anxiety, burnout, and/or depression.

So, how do we create the conditions for momentum in our teaching? This is the questions that we'll explore in this week's episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast!  

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Steven Kotler - The Art of Impossible

Andrew Huberman - Toolkit for Sleep

Become Burnout Proof with Active Recovery - Clare Sarah Goodridge (find information on brain waves here)

Forest bathing: What it is and why you should try it

The Full-Stack Physical Educator

Elyse Loughlin is a physical education teacher currently teaching in upstate New York. 

In addition to teaching Elyse is an OPEN National Trainer. She has presented at local, state, and national conferences covering everything from SLOs and GLOs to the active role physical education and health education can play in social justice. Elyse also happens to be my co-host for the weekly #PEChat discussions that we host on Twitter Spaces every Monday night at 8PM ET.

Elyse is committed to using Physical Education as a venue for social justice work in regards to race, wellness, education, and poverty.

In this episode, Elyse helps us understand how Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) can help us explore equity, social justice, and trauma-informed practices in physical education.

This episode is a recording of our latest #PEChat Radio Hour, one of the new chat formats that we are exploring on Twitter Spaces. The Radio Hour format consist of a live interview with a guest that anyone on Twitter can listen in to, share reactions, and engage in side-discussions by tweeting in the Space. At the end of the interview, we invite listeners to request the mic and share their questions and thoughts with our guest.

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Andy Vasily is the host of The Run Your Life Podcast, a celebrated instructional coach, an incredible physical education, and one of my good friends.

Andy's teaching has had a huge impact on the way I think about keeping students at the centre of their learning experiences. In today's episode, we dive into Andy's transformation towards becoming an autonomy-supportive PE teacher at the start of his career, the impact that providing students with opportunities to exercise their voice and choice in physical education can have on their learning, and where teachers can start should they wish to shift their teaching towards pedagogies that support autonomy.

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🎯 Using success criteria in your teaching is a high-leverage practice that has a significant effect on student learning. By building success criteria in partnership with your students, you can help increase student ownership, motivation, and engagement.

These are the questions that I do my best to answer in this week's episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast!

📝 Show Notes

Here is the recording from our latest #PEChat Radio Hour! For this episode, #PEChat host Elyse Loughlin interviews Joey Feith (that's me!) on Twitter Spaces.

This episode focuses on what physical educators can do to help support the development of a growth mindset within their students. In the episode, we explore:

• The differences between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.

• How mindsets affect our meaning systems and behaviours.

• How teachers can design physical environments that support a growth mindset.

• How peer attitudes and behaviours affect the development of a growth mindset.

• The different ways that teachers communicate their belief in a growth mindset and how that can affect students.

• Simple, evidence-based growth mindset interventions that work.

Thanks for tuning in! Happy Teaching!

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“If you don’t do the work, then you don’t get the grade.”

The saddest part about that cringe-worthy sentence is that I’ve said it to students before. Early on in my career, I had no idea how to motivate students in my teaching. I’d do my best to plan fun lessons, but I’d resort to a “carrots and sticks” approach when dealing with unmotivated students.

The problem is that controlling students with rewards and consequences only leads to higher levels of anxiety, boredom, or alienation.

It robs students of their natural love for learning and the feelings of joy, enthusiasm, and interest that once came with it. Knowing this impact, how can we best support student motivation in our lessons?

Self-determination theory looks at human motivation and tries to understand the factors that push or prevent people from wanting to learn and grow. The theory argues that intrinsic motivation is sustained by satisfying three basic psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

In this episode, we will take a look at how we can use self-determination theory to increase student motivation in P.E.

I did my best to tie theory to practice and I'm convinced that you will have a few new strategies in your tool belt after listening to this podcast.

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The 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing are underway and - as I write this - Norway is at the top of the medal standings.

Again.

Norway is a bit of an anomaly: it's a relatively small country at 5.3 million people (which ranks it #119 in the world based on population size), yet somehow it is an Olympic beast.

Prior to the games in Beijing beginning, Norway had 368 medals at the Winter Olympic Games (132 gold, 125 silver, 111 bronze). That count ranks them in the number one spot in all-time medal winners at the Winter Olympics, ahead of the United States (305) and Germany (240).

So what's going on here? What makes Norway so successful at the Olympics and what can we - as physical educators - take away from their approach?

In this episode, I'll be breaking down Norway's philosophy of "The Joy Of Sport For All" and sharing what PE can take away from the nation's approach to create safer, friendlier, more meaningful experiences for our students. 

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Physical literacy is the foundation of physical education.

As physical educators, it is our job to nurture our students’ physical literacy through meaningful, effective learning experiences. However, there is a common mistake that many PE teachers make that can severely hamper the impact of their teaching:

They focus too much on the physical domain of physical literacy.

Physical literacy exists across four domains: physical, cognitive, affective, and behavioural. Therefore, we need to look beyond the physical aspects of learning in order to best serve our students.

It took me a while to realize this in my own teaching. However, that realization is what led me to eventually start focusing on three key areas of learning: skills, knowledge, and understanding.

In this episode, I'll be breaking down the difference between the three and walking you through how they can help you maximize the impact of your teaching!

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