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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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What is Your PE Persona?

To this day I remember heading over to the Pharmacy next to my mother’s Restaurant and borrowing comics. I read Spiderman, Iron Man and the X-men. My favorite Comic ever was DP7. To me it was a little more realistic than the others, it tended to be normal people that had powers that were not

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Bring Back The Joy

What is the purpose of Physical Education? My purpose in physical education is to provide lessons that are enjoyable, a safe atmosphere, and a setting where students will learn the knowledge and skills that lead to a lifelong love of movement. Let’s unpack the enjoyment part of physical education. Joy is the number one outcome

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Target On My Back

Why are human target games banned in the United States? This is a question that keeps coming up again and again when discussing appropriate practices in Physical Education. The knee jerk reaction from most people in the profession is that dodgeball is physically and emotionally unsafe for some students. The problem with that response is

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Dodging Dodgeball

Many Physical Education teachers in the United States get their heart rate and blood pressure flying through the roof when the subject of dodgeball arises. One theory that may explain this reaction may be that it stems from the countless images, movie clips, and memories that are associated with the game. Physical Education teachers are

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