🤖 The AI revolution is well-underway and, I don't know about you, I've been feeling a little overwhelmed by it all! In this first part of a two-episode series, we'll unpack some of the key terms around AI and explore the idea of how to use artificial intelligence as a co-pilot in your teaching. 🎓 Become a #PhysEdU Community Member! #PhysEdU is the professional growth community that I've launched for physical educators earlier this year. Its purpose is to help you unlock and grow your...

🥳 Ok, I get that not everyone feels super excited about going back to school. That said, after three years of being away from teaching, I can't wait to start the latest chapter in my teaching career! In this episode, I'll share the four things that have me feeling fired up about getting back into teaching. 🎓 Become a #PhysEdU Community Member! #PhysEdU is the professional growth community that I've launched for physical educators earlier this year. Its purpose is to help you unlock and grow...

😨 In this episode, I'm sharing some exciting news and talking about some of the fears teachers experience as we head back to school. 🎓 Become a #PhysEdU Community Member! #PhysEdU is the professional growth community that I've launched for physical educators earlier this year. Its purpose is to help you unlock and grow your potential to be an outstanding physical educator! Community members enjoy benefits such as exclusive posts, members-only workshops, my digital courses library, and...

💪 In this episode, I'm trying something new! Let me walk you through a lesson that I recently designed and delivered at a local middle school. The lesson kicked off the students' fitness unit and focused on helping them explore the health-related components of fitness in a way that did not involve fitness testing or hitting up the fitness centre. 🎓 Become a #PhysEdU Community Member! #PhysEdU is the professional growth community that I've launched for physical educators earlier this year....

🛹 Earlier this spring, I got to check one of my goals off of my teaching bucket list. For years, I've dreamed of teaching a skateboarding unit as part of my physical education program. Well, after several twists and turns, I finally managed to make that dream come true! In this episode, I'll walk you through the process I used to design and deliver a meaningful series of skateboarding lessons that empowered the middle school students at our local school to turn our town's skatepark into their...

❤️ Kyle Bragg is a celebrated physical educator out of Scottsdale, Arizona. If you follow the #physed hashtag on Twitter, then there is no doubt that you have caught glimpses into Kyle's teaching already. Kyle does an incredible job of sharing best practices and insights from his teaching, and lately has been doing all of this through the #ICIH hashtag (which stands for In Case It Helps). In this episode, we explore what got Kyle into teaching, how he develop such an intentional approach to...

▶️ Games play an important role within physical education programs. That said, we need to ensure that we are designing games so that they are aligned to student learning targets and support our students' learning in PE. In this episode, I'll be sharing one game design tactic that I love to use to help my students experience success, deepen their learning, and develop skills, knowledge, and understandings that are essential to physical literacy. 🎓 Become a #PhysEdU Community Member! #PhysEdU...

🤝 School belonging is linked to improvements in academic achievement, higher self-reported levels of happiness, and fewer occurrences of violence and bullying in schools. In this episode of The #PhysEd Show, we'll take a deep dive into the world of belonging, make sense of the factors that influence it, and explore a set of evidence-based strategies and tactics that can help your students build a sense of school belonging in PE! 🎓 Become a #PhysEdU Community Member! #PhysEdU is the...

✨ Every now and then, you meet someone who reminds you how much fun it is to have fun while you teach. I've had the opportunity to connect with Barb Borden over the years and gain a window into her teaching through her Twitter presence. Without a doubt, Barb's teaching brings so much joy, laughter, and fun to her students lives. After connecting with Barb to learn more about how she has successfully accessed grant money to fund her PE program over the years, I quickly realized that her story...

🎓 Become a #PhysEdU Community Member! #PhysEdU is the professional growth community that I've launched for physical educators earlier this year. It's purpose is to help you unlock and grow your potential to be an outstanding physical educator! Community members enjoy benefits such as exclusive posts, members-only workshops, my digital courses library, and instant access to all of ThePhysicalEducator.com's premium resources. To learn more and find out which #PhysEdU membership is right for...

♿️ 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...

👀 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: I...

🏄‍♂️ 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...

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...

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...

🎯 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. That said, how can we bring this practice into a physical education setting? What are the steps to follow and how can we adapt them to meet the realities of teaching physical education? These are the questions that I do my best to answer in...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

Here is the recording from our latest #PEChat Radio Hour! For this episode, I connected with Mark Friedrich on Twitter Spaces. Mark Friedrich is an Adventure Education and Health Education teacher at Millburn High School in Millburn, New Jersey. Mark has been a member of Millburn's Health & PE Department for 16 years. During those years, he has created an Adventure Education program that is not only one of the largest in his state, it's also the envy of many educators out there (this guy...

Here is the recording from our first-ever #PEChat Radio Hour! For this episode, I connected with Karl Mercuri on Twitter Spaces. Karl Mercuri is the Social and Emotional Learning Coordinator at The Priory School and a private SEL consultant across schools here in the Greater Montreal area. Originally from Melbourne (Australia), Karl actually started his career teaching physical education there. Earlier in his career, Karl was a facilitator of Kidsmatter (now Be You): a Mental Health and...

This is a recap of our latest #pechat that took place on Twitter Spaces! For this #pechat, we hosted a #PhysEd Pub PD: a Space where physical education teachers get to hang out, take turns sharing ideas, and learning from each other.  Shout out to all of the awesome teachers who stepped up and shared an idea during the chat: • Nathan (@PENathan) who shared an idea on how we can highlight physical activity opportunities that exist our communities. • Travis (@NorthShoreVB) who shared a game...

The school year is coming to an end. If you're an elementary school teacher, that means that Field Day season is about to begin! Having taught elementary school physical education for the past ten years, I've had the responsibility of planning a whole-school Field Day event each school year. Planning an event of this size - with all of its moving parts - can be intimidating. That being said, I decided to sit down and create a walkthrough on how I went about planning my take on Field Day: The...