Remove Direct Teaching Remove Recreation Remove Wellness
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Is Physical Education (PE) Universal?

Reinventing the Game

The amount of administration to support teaching seems to have almost overwhelm actual direct teaching matters. It made almost no sense for a rural village deep in the outback wanting their residents spent precious energy running for recreation. So recently, it has been crazy.

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Structures and Ecology: Linear facilitation processes vis-à-vis non-linear developmental processes in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

As I teach less towards year-end, administrative work pile up, thoughts become preoccupied with non-direct teaching matters. It was clear that reflective mood is directly proportional to how much on-the-ground teaching and observation is happening, at least for me. I feel forced.

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So what now in Physical Education (PE)? A personal reflection.

Reinventing the Game

Many of us are driven by the explicit love of selected sports with an unclear jump to needing to teach movement as a broad life skill, resulting in PE teachers finding joy in teaching only certain games. This is often enough for a PE teaching career but I see changes arising where more depth is needed from us.