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A Better Approach: Making Students Owners of Their Fitness Journey

The Problem: Traditional fitness testing often leaves students feeling judged, embarrassed, and anxious. Rather than inspiring a love of physical activity, these assessments can create negative associations that last well into adulthood. According to a recent study in the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, over 65% of middle school students report experiencing anxiety before […]

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The Future of Learning – AI, StudyAI, and Personalised Education

In this episode of The PE Geek Podcast, Jarrod Robinson returns to discuss the transformative power of AI in education, emphasizing its potential to support, not replace, great teaching. He introduces StudyAI, an app that functions as a 24/7 personal tutor, designed to help students overcome learning challenges, homework struggles, and access barriers to tutoring.

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Social Justice

What is more important than content in a physical education class? What matters more than physical activity? Is there anything we should focus on more than the grade level outcomes created by SHAPE America? A student’s self- identity is more important than anything else. This is what shapes their thinking which will influence every decision

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Duality

Opposites attract. I have sat through many weddings and have heard how the bride or groom is so Type A and their partner is the opposite. It makes a lot of sense. How crazy would it be if both partners were uptight! Even worse would anything ever get accomplished if both partners didn’t care about

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Making Teaching Stick!

A ‘how to guide’ for short and extended response questioning for the study of senior exercise or sports science. Tennessee Williams once said ‘Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question’. When I speak to HPE teachers from a range of schools, sometimes their biggest struggle

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