Post pandemic PE: creating the resilient student.

Online interactive CPD opportunity for PE Teachers around the world.

Purpose: During the pandemic physical activity levels, within schools and without, dropped. Children’s opportunity to roam and play and exercise has been reduced.

Online learning has meant that children have been sitting indoors or in one classroom more than ever. P.E. teachers will have seen a decline in both physical fitness and motor skills since March 2020.

If the schools try to return to a pre-pandemic curriculum without preparation then the pupils are likely to struggle with a lack of fitness and lack of skill.

• This workshop will give teachers practical ideas on how to assess where their pupils are now and how to help them improve.
• It will help the teacher balance the demands of the curriculum with the realities of where their students are after a year of disruption.
• It will give new ideas and perspectives that can rejuvenate your PE programme.

This is one of a series of workshops that form part of GAIN PE 

“James Marshall is outstanding- an affordable provider of professional development for physical educators and coaches of all grade levels. His extensive video library is constantly growing and separates itself from traditional YouTube content by its emphasis on physical competency, physical literacy and athletic development. No matter where your corner of the world is, James can make your program better.”

Joe Przytula

Physical Education and Health Supervisor

Elizabeth, New Jersey USA.

The workshop will include:

• Two 60 minute online tutorials that feature many practical lessons and ideas that require minimal equipment and space.
• An overview of the underlying ethos behind the continual assessment and micro-dosing approach.
• A live Q&A session with the tutors where teachers can ask specific questions about their school and classes and how to apply these ideas.

After you book you will receive confirmation. You will then gain access to the tutorials two weeks before the Q&A session that will be held from 1600-1700 GMT on Wednesday5th May 2021.

You do not have to attend the live Q&A (although preferable) to book onto the course: a live recording will take place that you can watch later.

Tutorial 1: Assessment and teaching with James Marshall.

Measuring is not something that a teacher does to a student but a process they undertake together.

In this tutorial, James Marshall will show why the standard format of testing, introduce the programme, and then retesting is problematic and potentially demotivating.

The children are unfit: we know that, so just testing them doesn’t help them improve. Reducing the skill from movements reduces the interest: sitting in a wall-sit or doing the plank for endless minutes doesn’t tell you ‘How’ the pupil moves, not does it help them ‘learn.‘

James will show how you can do a format of peer-reviewed pupil continuous assessment that improves the students capacity in every lesson and avoids the ‘big test’ fear.

It will include:

• Qualitative assessment of quantitative movements: how to coach the movements involved in common tests and fixes to the common faults.
• Assessment and coaching cues for skipping patterns.
• Alternatives to the low-skill, low-interest tests such as the plank or wall-sit.
• ‘How-to’ videos on exercise progressions/regressions that link to the tests shown.

An example of three tests are shown in this video:

Tutorial 2: Micro Workouts with Andy Stone.

Once you have assessed the pupils you need to know how to improve their fitness and skill without simply repeating the test.

Long exhausting workouts are a sure way to make students miserable, but consistent effort is necessary to reach any long term physical goal.

How is it possible to improve movement skills and fitness while keeping the students engaged and motivated? An effective solution is a micro workout.

Andy will take you through the simple structure: workouts that take between 7 and 12 minutes. They use a small number of exercises, usually four, that are related in a functional way. The workouts have enough repetition to help improve movement, strength, and cardiovascular conditioning but allow for enough variety to maintain student focus.

Finally, they are flexible, allowing a teacher to tailor the micro workout to focus on the needs of the class, the space available, and can be done with little to no equipment.

Micro Workout Content:

-basic 4 exercise structure

-3 basic workouts (movement, strength/structure, and cardiovascular conditioning)

-small space workouts

-large spaces workouts

-track workouts

-weight room workouts

An example can be seen in this video:

Booking

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