ThinkingPE

Physical educators often use cross curricular instruction by introducing classroom academics into their movement based class.  We discuss taking the reverse approach and incorporating movement into the academic classes.  The Kinesthetic Classroom 2.0: Ready Set Go is a book by Mike Kuczala and Traci Lengel.  Their research into movement and learning combined with steps to incorporate (including activity examples) lays a foundation for movement in academics.

Resources:

Centers for Disease Control (2010).  The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance.  United       

     States Department of Health and Human Services

Kuczala M. & Lengel T. (2017) The Kinesthetic Classroom 2.0: Ready Set Go. Corwin   

“Learning doesn’t happen from the neck up: it happens from the feet up.” (Kuczala & Lengel, 2017, p. 43)

 Bucket and Rope Cooperative Game: Object Retrieval team Building System, Gopher Physical Education Equipment: Owatonna, MN

In this episode we highlight hints and tips for field day broken down into three stages: prior to field day, during field day, and after field day. We discuss different formats, lessons learned, favorite events, and often missed details.

In this episode we discuss taking a simple minute to introduce the why into your lesson.  We learned from @ElemPE1 that cooperation and helping others can be taught with "Dead Ant Tag".  The importance of reflecting on the outcomes was highlighted in the Essential PE newsletter (www.essentialpe.org).

In this episode Stacy and Jamie hash out the idea of elementary students and appropriate phy ed shoes.  The why is always at the heart of the discussion, analyzing the pros and cons to various strategies.

We have been downloaded in all 50 states and 50 different countries.  In this episode we celebrate one year of podcasting by reflecting on what we have learned from all of you.  Thank You to all of our guest and listeners.  It has been an amazing journey filled with lots of great people.

In addition to discovering creative techniques for grouping students together and making teams, we discovered 3 considerations to help decide which technique to use. 1. Avoiding student's hard feelings 2. Address student's feelings 3. Efficiency

In addition to discovering creative techniques for partnering students together, we discovered 3 considerations to help decide which technique to use. 

1. Avoiding student's hard feelings 

2. Address student's feelings 

3. Efficiency

In this episode of the ThinkingPE podcast, Stacey and Jamie react to a Facebook group post debating whether or not teachers should participate with their students in class.  The tread had 100's of comments and dug into the why and analysed important benefits and concerns for both parts of the discussion.

Distance Learning and PE go together like a square peg and a round hole, but the challenge has been met and we are seeing some success. PE teachers from around the world gather at #PEJamSession to discuss the importance of using creativity to enhance your connection with students and the content instead of counting "Likes". 

Distance Learning and PE go together like a square peg and a round hole, but the challenge has been met and we are seeing some success.  PE teachers from around the world gather at #PEJamSession to discuss how they have transitioned from creating meaningful activities to keep kids moving to teaching content and progressing students to meet standards.

Distance Learning and PE go together like a square peg and a round hole, but the challenge has been met and we are seeing some success. PE teachers from around the world gather at #PEJamSession to discuss what's working to connect with students virtually. 

SHOW NOTES:  

Jennifer, Olga, Matt & Justin join Jamie & Stacey to talk about what IS working to Virtually connect with students. Resources mentioned in the podcast.

   -  Flipgrid.com

   -  Padlet.com

   -  Finding Frosty - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_le3paogNHcAUIkTHrh1EkKHZ4IEvaP5nJzHOKGKbvU/edit#slide=id.p

There is so much creativity for us to use in order to capture our students interest.  In this episode we explain how to make exercise GIF's with no background.  Most importantly we focus on why you should do them.  

 Resources Used:  www.imgflip.com, www.ezgif.com, www.unscreen.com

No doubt COVID has had an overall adverse impact on teaching.  However, in Episode 30 we discussed our findings on the positive impacts COVID has had on distance learning.  In this episode we build on that by discussing the hybrid model of teaching.

COVID has been BRUTAL on education, but are there some POSITIVE effects of this pandemic?  

Our short study confirms "Every cloud has a silver lining."

Great teaching starts with a solid foundation.  Part of that foundation is being able to effectively bring the excitement to a stop.  We analyze the what, how, and why behind stop signals with resources from our research and:  

EnVOY:  www.michaelgrinder.com/envoy 

www.supportrealteachers.org/class-management-overview

Your classroom will develop a culture.  Will you be purposeful and proactive or will you let it develop by chance?   Listen in while PE instructors from varied backgrounds discuss the importance of being purposeful.

Dr. Kristi Mally is a Physical Education Professor at Winona State University in MN.  She shares with use the challenges and her approach to helping future teachers develop a foundation of core pedagogy.  With a solid foundation of critical thinking and resourcefulness they will be successful in an ever changing world.  Kristi Mally Twitter: @Gr8FullLearners, email: KMally@winona.edu

With Distance Learning, Hybrid, & teaching outside, how do we establish a culture in our classroom?  

Several good ideas and great questions are presented in this discussion.

We use the term "Hack" as a way to cut through or get around a barrier that may be in your way of efficient teaching.  

Justin Black shares from his experience of remote teaching ways you can make distance learning more efficient. 

@2018coachblack     

J.black@laschools.net

Knowing WHY allows us to adapt on the fly and still accomplish our goals.   

Knowing WHY will be important this year with all the unknowns that teachers are faced with. 

In this episode we ask PE teachers not only WHAT they are teaching on their first day back, but WHY they are doing those activities.   Listen in for some great insights into teaching the first day of school 2020.

Carver Elementary Physical Education Teachers (www.cvr.district112.org) Kendra Maus, Dan Ford, & Tom Becker found success with distance learning through collaboration, building on each others strengths, and a growth mindset.  We also dig deeper into #6FeetPE with 90 kids (that's not a typing error) in their gym at once.  We learned how Social Emotional Learning is used to transition these large sections to their next class and how it has become the foundation of a great program.

So, where do we even start planning for fall?   

In this episode teachers from around the country share ideas on setting up your teaching space as well as how to keep the fun in setting expectations and routines.

2019 SHAPE America Teacher of the Year Donn Tobin shares his journey being recognized with a National award.  His growth mindset and willingness to collaborate are displayed as we dig deeper into what makes a great teacher great.  We discuss his distance learning success, physical education vs physical activity, and the idea of teaching PE while respecting social distancing in what we call #6FeetPE.

MNSHAPE President Tom Roberts discusses all things PE.  We reflect on distance learning, discuss what #6FeetPE (teaching PE while respecting social distancing) might look like, and discuss the future of physical education including the support MNSHAPE provides to insure purposeful, meaningful, standards based lessons no matter what the setting.

Caryl is a professor at St. Cloud State University and she was a co-author of the MNSHAPE physical education standards.  She shares with us the genius behind the standards that made them clearly written and intentionally vague allowing you the PE teacher to be in control of your class.

Social-Emotional Learning is what Standards 4 & 5 are all about.   

This fun discussion takes us into the heart of teaching the full student, not just the physical.   

Feel free to check out the link to the notes we took during all 5  #6feetPE discussions.    https://bit.ly/6feetPE-Brainstorm_Notes   

This will be our last #6feetPE discussion until August, but we still have some great interviews coming to you in the July podcasts. 

Thanks for joining us.

Connection, creativity, & content.  Clint Lundeen describes how these three work together to create a strong PE curriculum that works for him and his students.

Over 25 PE teachers from around the country met on Zoom Thursday, June 4 to discuss social distance teaching of locomotor & non-locomotor activities. This episode is loaded with practical ideas & general strategies.  

We are keeping some notes on a shared Google Doc.  Feel free to look at that as well. 

https://bit.ly/6feetPE-Brainstorm_Notes

Sean is on the MNSHAPE board of directors and shares how being around passionate PE peeps have inspired him to be the best he can be.   

The TEDX talk referred to called "Putting the Right Peeps In Your Jeep"  is by Steve Fredlund.  You can see it here.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdGSDx4K9LY

One of the most creative PE teachers we know shares some fascinating insights into how to increase your creativity.

Explore his website at www.physeddepot.com 

Find Mike on Twitter @PhysEdDepot

Here is an idea!  Let's ask the students how we are doing with providing distance learning.   We talk with three students from Minnesota to get some GREAT insights into distance learning.

We hear from Physical Educators from all grade levels as we interview Joe McCarthy, Lauren Joki, & Steve Girard on the topic of using creativity to increase engagement in their distance learning lessons.

In part two we hear from secondary teachers Lauren Joki & Steve Girard share how they strive to make a connection with their students using technology and creativity.  We also hear from students Petra, Keagan, & Tayjal who share their insights into the need to build connection through distance learning.

Episode 4 - This is part one of a series called Connection Over Content.  We visit with 2012 MNSHAPE Teacher of the year Joe McCarthy and dive into priority number one in distance learning which is building relationships.

Episode 3 - Prior to the COVID-19 shutdown, we did a survey on how teachers prioritize when they are planning their curriculum. (See Episode #2) 

 Now that most teachers are teaching from a distance have the priorities changed?

We take a look in this episode of ThinkingPE.

Episode 2 - Listen in as we discuss the results of a recent survey asking over 100 PE teachers how they prioritize when making their curriculum choices.

Episode 1 - Good PE is more than fun and games.  We dig into what makes a great PE classroom great.  In Episode 1 Stacey & Jamie discuss why Thinking PE will be worth the listen.