Module Template
Mental Health for Students and Teachers
Welcome to Module 3:
How do I earn my digital badge?
(make this a button with a pop up window on each module - with instructions - post on every interactive board, read articles at end (min) prior to seminar engage in discussion etc.)
Mental Health for Students and Teachers
EDIT THIS....The goal of this module is to examine and understand how we can determine what our diverse students need to feel safe and represented in the material. Research tells us that creating and maintaining a positive learning environment; building a learning community; giving consistent feedback in a timely manner; and using the right technology to deliver the right content (Nafukho & Chakraborty, 2014) are key factors in strengthening student engagement in online courses. This module will provide you with the information and opportunities to develop your personalized pedagogical approach towards building healthy, safe, and inclusive Physical Education communities via distance learning.
The Big Ideas
Starting the Conversation about Mental Health in PHE
Edit this.....Teaching has rapidly evolved and the pace of technological change means our pedagogy will always include a digital component. Whether it's using google classroom, sharing and editing each other's work online, or working through an online activity, students need to become good digital citizens to communicate now and in the future.
Physical Educators are in a unique position to coach and teach digital skills for the 21C - skills such as teamwork, creativity, problem-solving, negotiation and more are all included in the World Economic Forum list of skills needed to thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution. As educators, it is our role to set the foundation of building blocks to help students become smart, conscientious, and innovative beings both behind the screen and in person.
Who experiences Mental Health? And what is it?
Mental Health affect each and everyone one of us, we take care of our physical health so why not take care of our mental health. This module aims to shed light on several key topics that are arising in our schools now and provide you with resources, lesson ideas and professional discussions about these topics. Although we would like to speak in depth about how to help each and every student we simply can’t explore everything within this single module. Please make use of the links provided for more specific information
Kindergarten - Grade 8
Grade 9 - Higher Education
Student's Living with ASD
LGBTQIA+ Students
Students suffering from Eating disorders
Students living with Autism
Recovering from an aquired brain injury or concussion
Checking in with our Community
This module wouldn't serve it's purpose if we didn't take care of our community and check-in with everyone enrolled with PHEWISE's microcredentials. Checking in may seem such a small gesture but it can have a huge impact on the mood, mental health and overall disposition of the student, co-worker, family or friend you are checking in with.
Please take a few moments to answer the questions below
Questions
1. How are you feeling today, really? Physically and mentally.
2. What’s taking up most of your headspace right now?
3. What was your last full meal, and have you been drinking enough water?
4. How have you been sleeping?
5. What have you been doing for exercise?
6. What did you do today that made you feel good?
7. What’s something you can do today that would be good for you?
8. What’s something you’re looking forward to in the next few days?
9. What’s something we can do together this week, even if we’re apart?
10. What are you grateful for right now?
Activity - Identify my risk factors/create your own self check
In answering the questions above, did you find some resonated more with you? Fit your lifestyle more than others? Students will probably feel the same way. We often know what our triggers are, or things we need to make sure we are doing them to stay our healthiest physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Which is why having students create their own list of check ins could be an eye opening experience. They may think they are doing great, eating good food all the time, moderating their social media and computer game usage but in reality it isn't until we take a step back, do we really see the big picture.
We don't need to tell you that every student is different, which is why having them develop questions could reflect specific things they need to keep track of, for example:
1) What was your sleep quality?
2) Have you taken tech breaks lately? (no tech before bed, or not using a certain app)
3) Have you scheduled your time appropriately by giving yourself breaks?
4) What are your emotional and physical pain scores today?
5) Nature, pets , spiritual beliefs, etc.
6) Are you staying hydrated?
Try this activity for your self, using the list of questions above, add questions that suit your personality and things you should be doing to stay in a positive mental state or omitt any questions you feel that don't apply to you or you don't need to be monitoring it.
These questions may seem simple, but to someone having a difficult day, week or even a difficult year, the simple act of checking in could go a long way.
Activity - Identify my risk factors
teahchers can have students make their own check list up... to assess their behviour (dot journal.. )
wont use this with all students, maybe implement this with certain students that need it.. this way they can reflect back on a week and see when things started to go bad)
NOTE: before i create the student list,. look at the breainstorming doc.
add in "is my school a MH school"
Activity #2 - Padlet & Student Activity The Check in Buddy
All of us have gone through tough times, and whether we were teaching or just living through it, the COVID pandemic played havoc on our social, emotional and mental states.
Watch the video and reflect on how you may have felt yourself going through all the lock downs, and how you may have helped students through it. As you modified your teaching style to accommodate for online teaching what were some ways you tried to help students? Did you create a drop in? Stay late after class or start early ? The social presence of an online community plays a big role in the well being of online students, and even through the world is some what recovered, those experiences of being withdrawn still linger.
Use this padlet to share how you tried to help your students either teaching online or in person.
Just as you have all demonstrated the responsibility to check in with your students in the padlet activity, this activity will teach them how it's also their responsibitiy to check in with those they care about. Even if someone doesn't personally have battles with their mental health, that doesn't mean they can't be involved in helping others heal and strengthen their mental health.
Students will choose a SECRET check in buddy. Your students will then create a digital journal and document when and how they helped their secret buddy. By secret, we mean that the buddy can't know they are writting a journal about how the student is helping them, or how the student is trying different strategies with this buddy.
Who: They could pick anyone who they see on a regular basis (weekely)
What: They will be documenting how they tried to help the student, what strategies they used? and how it made them feel or their buddy feel. Try to have students stay away from names, stories about what their buddy is going through etc. as this is not the point of the exercise.
When: You decide, however, as this is a mental health issue, we can't predict them. So we recommend having the student complete 4-6 journal entries over the course of the semester or term.
Why: This journal will allow your students to keep track of how they helped their buddy, what worked etc.
You may add a self-reflection to this assignment, because building empathy in students to open up and start the conversation about mental health and teach them how to have real conversations and build trusting relationships is very important
Digital Journal Templates
Consolidation, depending on the grades you are teaching, could be anywhere between building relationships with friends to demonstrating how discussing mental health and physical health could benefit everyone.
The more we include mental health discussions into everyday conversations, the more we can educate people and break the stigma around mental health.
De-stigmatizing mental health in our classrooms is so important and it doesn't mean we have to talk about all the time or turn the conversation to talking about a mental health disorder a child is suffering from. It merly means allowing our students to be free to talk about their mental health without judgement from peers, teachers, family or friends. As teachers we have a duty to help our students understand that being healthy includes everything, physical health, mental health, emotional health and sexual health.
Talking about Stigma
he main reasons for (not) seeking and accessing professional help given by young people are those related to mental health stigma and embarrassment, a lack of mental healthknowledge and negative perceptions of help-seeking."
Radez, J. et al. (2021)
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Activity - Article & Jamboard
A School-Based Intervention for Mental Illness Stigma: A Cluster Randomized Trial
ABSTRACT
Curriculum Intervention about Stigma
Exposure/Expert panel of youth living with mental health issues
Provided with printed material/achor charts about mental health
Jamboard- of course, every class is different and the classroom culture changes year to year, but your teaching and instructional design of your lessons remain. Using these post - it notes, move them around to identity which event you would do first with your students, and create almost like a flow chart of how your would teach how to reduce stigma in yoru classroom.
There are no wrong answers, only collaborations! As teachers we sometimes try things and fail, so it’s nice to share and see how others have succeeded and why so that we may adapt similar strategies.
- pedagogy strategies, other things, smaller activities they would add etc.
Activity - Video .....
As we dive deep into mental health, student's emotions may be raised which gives us the perfect opportunity to speak and share about our stories and struggles. Reminding students that there is a big difference between empathy and sympathy and as we share, and hear each other’s stories we need to be open to listening and empathetic to what each of us have gone through. Everyone’s live journey is different but most of us have experienced similar emotions, which may be on different levels but you can be empathetic to each other by connecting through those shared experiences.
Talking about mental health, the emotional side of things, the chemistry in your brains and the attitudes towards is could help a lot of people, students, co-workers etc. Students are already going through so many physical, physcological and emotional changes as they grow up and can often feel overwhelmed but don't udnerstand what those feelings are. Educating ourselves and arming your students, so that if and when you or someone we care about feel this way, you know and understand what’s really going on and that those feelings/thoughts could be taken care of by either talking to a friend, a therapist, or by engaging in activities that could be identified as one of your protective factors (which we will discuss in the next section).
Since every class is unique, this activity is meant to open up the conversation about menatl health, and although the worksheep provided is directly related to Kristen Bell's video, it could be adapted towards any of the following videos.
- how could you incorporate or discuss mental health daily (Similar to assessment, what does it look like, sound like...) (compliments, positive vibes , support each, but observant, empathatic, include those that look like they need a friend/or partner in an activity ...)
- how can we make learning about mental health daily effective... (write 3 things positive about a student)
kindness jar (look on pintrest for classroom ideas)
There are so many public figures such as; Selena Gomez, Tom Holland, Kevin Love, Clara Hughes, Demar Derozon, Naomi Osaka, Carey Price, Simone Biles. They have come forward to speak about their mental health struggles, how they got through it and how they continue to carry on and manage their mental health without it derailing their goals in life. It's so important that students understand that just because we discuss it now, doesn't mean you have to be vulnerable and discuss it every day. But they should know that if and/or when negative feeling arise, the sooner they deal with it, the sooner they can carry on!
In consolidation, you may want to look at several mental health campaigns that have arise over the years such as Bell Let's Talk day and the CAMH Mental Health Week. Encourage your students to see the Pro's and Con's to such campaigns. Should we only talk about mental health for only 1 day or 1 week a year? How would they change the campaign? Are there better ones out there that should be more mainstream so that students their age could resonate and seek help if they need it? Having them go through these exercises will help reduce the stigma, but it will also help them become advocates, open listeners and shoulders for people in their lives that may need them. Just because we may not suffer from these issues ourselves, doesn't mean that one day we may not need to help someone we care about get through a difficult time.
Building Protective Factors
Developing protective factors in our lives is one of the best ways to stay healthy physically and mentally. Being involved in hobbies, social engagements and having a support systems of family and friends is not only good for our students by good for us. As teachers we could have a difficult time keep a balanced lifestyle which is why managing our stress and identifying our own protective factors are equally important.
Risk Factors and why Protective factors are important - Pre and Post COVID
The relationship between protective factors and your mental health cannot be ignored as they have a direct relationship to one another. As physical & health education teachers we already know the importance of this topic for our students and you probably already have activities that you use with your students to help them identify their protective factors. THERE WILL BE A SECTION BELOW TO SHARE THESE ACTIVIES WITH ONEANOTHER.... EDIT THIS
Over the last few years, with the shut down of schools and sudden change in lifestyles because of the pandemic, several risk factors for students became more prominent such as peer victimization, isolation, cyber bullying and lack of peer socialization. Alternately, protective factors such as building relationships with your students and helping them develop their personal resilience can go a long way for some students that are prone to living with poor mental health. The images below discusses a few of these topics.
Student-Teacher
Relationships
strong relationship decreased on peer vicitimzation in elementry school
peer socializations
social emotional learning strategies, problem solving skills, team bulding, group resolution and solving problems on their own
peer victimization
increased with virtual school and higher when technology, classrooms aren't monitoried
personal resilience
identify personal strengths, coping mechanisms and good social supports
Mind map activity????
- Read this article and create a mind map of how things connect (from the article and from your experience) you can use these suggested categories or create some of your own... 1) Risk - peer victimization, home stress, responsibility burdens, family pressures / 2) Protective - social support, coping strategies, exercise
- could look at all things that contribute to poor mental health, substance abuse, eating disorders, violent behaviour, delienquency, gangs, drugs, crime
Teaching our students about how to be resilient and manage their emotions help them identify what protective factors they have in their lives and when to use them. The video talks about finding healthy ways to deal with stressful situations and gives the example of petting your pet and talking to someone. This is a great video geared towards elementary students.
talk about protective factors, what they are and introduce the worksheets for the students as activity,.. have teachers do the worksheet for themselves.
Then speak about how protective factors build resilience and introduce the video.....
Article
Moving your teaching practice online is not only about the content but how you teach it and how your students will interact with the tech tools and be engaged in the lesson. Teaching virtually is different than face-to-face and it may feel like going back to the drawing board and revamping your entire teaching style. Although they are different, they share a lot of common core elements.
elf-image plays an important role in every stage of development and is particularly important during adolescence, a time when individuals extensively reorganize their self and relationships."
Di Blasi, M., et al. (2015)
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Activity: Building a positive Eye
EDIT THIS... e curated tech tools, apps, and other productivity tools you can use in your classroom for students and teachers because everyone needs to stay productive and organized in a digital world. Click on the word icon for the list of the below tech tools.
Community
Moving your teaching practice online is not only about the content but how you teach it and how your students will interact with the tech tools and be engaged in the lesson. Teaching virtually is different than face-to-face and it may feel like going back to the drawing board and revamping your entire teaching style. Although they are different, they share a lot of common core elements.
This article summarizes several approaches that look specifically at improving student engagement in an online class. Key topics include how students interact with content, collaborate with one another, and the communication that takes place within the online course.
When you read this article consider what adjustments you have made over the last few years, whether it was teaching virtually, hybrid or face to face.
Below is a summary of the 5 student engagement strategies from this article. If you hover over them you will reveal some tips for implementing them in your Health and Physical Education class.
Activity # - Read and Reflect
creating and
maintaining positive learning environment;
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Open communication with students (building team environment in class)
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Digital citizenship (constructive feedback, no put downs)
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Communication with students and parents
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Setting norms and expectations
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Building a safe online environment
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Open communication with students (building team environment in class)
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Digital citizenship (constructive feedback, no put downs)
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building learning community;
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Community Dialog
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Fun, interactive activities (gamification)
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Sharing Digital Moments (something they are proud of)
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Giving students choices
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giving consistent feedback in timely manner;
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Q&A time outside of class for real time answers
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Peer assessment with conversational feedback (coach to athlete scenarios)
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Open communication with students (building team environment in class)
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Digital citizenship (constructive feedback, no put downs)
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practicing flexibility using right technology to deliver the right content;
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Current tech to deliver content (hunt on tic tok for health video and critique them
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Give students options when using tech
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Open communication with students (building team environment in class)
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Digital citizenship (constructive feedback, no put downs)
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providing proper support system
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User Friendly software for students
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New software; provide support (teacher or peer) for troubleshooting
Activity # - Post on Padlet
Research has shown that students want a positive learning community with proper tech supports and timely feedback given on their assignments. What have you seen in your practice that can add to the research about how to engage students in an online, hybrid learning environment?
Consider the following questions when reflecting and consolidating the information from the article, then post your answer on the padlet.
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Do some engagement strategies pair better with different pedagogy styles?
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Does your pedagogy, virtual or face to face satisfy any of the above categories?
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How might you adopt some of these engagement strategies when teaching face to face?
Sir Ken Robinson touches on several key ideas in this TedTalk such as Linear Education and Conformity. He discusses getting out of the manufactoring model of education and instead of expecting every student to be the same, we celebrate and nurture their unique talents.
Ted Talk
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hat human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process and you cannot predict the outcome of human development, all you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish"
Sir Ken Robinson
As physical educators, you may have experience being physically literate athletes at some point in your elementary or high school careers and you understand the importance of every individual's role on a team.
Athletics has the potential to bring out the best in everyone, through teaching them to receive constructive criticism, self-assessing their performance, and not to mention working collaboratively in a team. A lot of skills that athletes learn from being involved in sports are also labeled as being global learning competencies, however, the difficulty is that not every student navigates towards athletics nor does every student find athletics fun or interesting. So engaging them in our phys. ed. classes will not only help them learn to live healthy lives but will also teach them the skills they will need to thrive in their future workplace.
Global Learning Competencies
Global learning competencies have already been integrated into the education sector and in classrooms across the country. Although each province and territory has made some adjustments to the competencies to fit their own curriculum and education outcomes the main theme remains consistent with Canada's global competencies which are;
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critical thinking and problem solving
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innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship
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learning to learn/self-awareness and self-direction
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collaboration
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communication
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global citizenship and sustainability
Integrating these global learning competencies with our curriculum is what will guide us to develop engaging learning environments for our students, whether they are in the gymnasium, online fitness class, or in health class virtually, or face to face. Not only are we teaching students the skills that will help them thrive in our classrooms but we will also be preparing them to build the skills they will need in the workforce.
The World Economic Forum's article "These are the top 10 skills of tomorrow-and how long it will take to learn them" talks about how "Critical thinking and problem-solving top the list of skills employers believe will grow in prominence in the next five years."
This reinforces the importance of why engaging our students in digital spaces will help them develop a sense of confidence or growth mindset when troubleshooting and working with technology. Below you will find the top 10 skills listed in the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report.
These are ALL skills that students can build in Health and Physical Education classes !
Speaking about building confidence in technology, the next Ted Talk is from a 17-year-old who started a tech company at age 14 and is now running workshops for schools in Australia. His perspective of what skills he needed to know in the real world and what skills he was learning in school reiterate what was mentioned in the Future of Jobs Report from the World Economic Forum.
Activity - Ted Talk & Share on Slides
Students of today need the tools for 'tomorrow'. They will be working in the 4th Industrial Revolution, with technology, Artificial Intelligence, and robotics leading the way. Teaching them how to interact with the new world they will be growing up in will give them the skills they use as contributing members of society.
The question for the future of education remains; how we can help them learn the tools they will need for tomorrow, today?
Compare and contrast what skills you are focusing on in your classrooms, to the list of skills provided by the World Economic Forum above. Do you see any overlapping ideas? Any assignments that can be adjusted more into a discovery project rather than written paper?
As physical educators, we have an extra challenge when implementing these new skills because of the nature of our subject and the location of our 'classroom'. However, with a little support from one another we can develop unique lessons, units and assignments that can teach students the skills of the 4th Industrial Revolution by embedding these skills naturally in to the HPE curriculum.
We know you aim to empower your students, engage them and encourage them to be life long physical literacy advocates. Lets collect lesson plans, unit plans and resources you can share with your students will help them feel in charge of their own fitness journey while teaching them the skills for their future, putting students in the drivers seat of their own success.
Sport Education and Gamification
The pedagogy practices of using gamification throughout your units, or having your students plan, run and participate in their own tournament have much to offer your students. This module focuses on what steps you can take towards implementing some of these concepts into your class today.
Pedagogy and Gamification in Physical Education
Gamification
"The application of typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, typically as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service." - Google
You probably already use elements of this in your classes, so let's look at some specific examples to familiarize yourself with the term, hover your mouse over each box - to reveal the answer, to see the connection, to view the example
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Open communication with students (building team environment in class)
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Digital citizenship (constructive feedback, no put downs)
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Positive point system
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Giving students options for assignments
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Weekly Trophies (MVP, Sportsmanlike, Leaderboad)
Point System
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Open communication with students (building team environment in class)
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Digital citizenship (constructive feedback, no put downs)
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Assigning a rotation of leadership roles, equipment setup etc.
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Use Plickers as game peices
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Players/Students make own choices in the game
The Players
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Open communication with students (building team environment in class)
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Digital citizenship (constructive feedback, no put downs)
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Use different TGFU games as levels
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Working through various skills of a sport also different levels (move on when ready)
Different Levels
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Open communication with students (building team environment in class)
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Digital citizenship (constructive feedback, no put downs)
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Sport skill-based challenges (Team vs. Team, Ladder Tournaments)
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Movement Skill-based (complete exercise sequence, incorporate target game, # of reps etc.)
Boss Challenges
It takes time to make changes to your current pedagogy, not to mention collecting the resources, organizing your assessments but consider implementing small simple adjustments to increase student engagement. Watch the video below as a simple example of how one teacher has implemented gamification with his students.
This teacher; Michael Ginicola from The Phys. Ed. Depot has several videos of how he incorporates simple aspects of gamification into his phys. ed. class. Watch this video to spark your imagination and consider ways you can include gamification in your class. For those new to Plickers, we've included their website for you to explore. Also, check out the teacher's comments from last year.
Activity # - Padlet: Stop, Start & Continue
Use the padlet link to share your thoughts about gamification, things your have implemented already or somethings you want to try. Using the simple "Stop, Start, Continue" framework to reflect on your own teaching practice and consider where you can can go outside your comfort zone. Complete 1 response only in any of the 3 categories and please try to colour code your responses. If you have a good gamification resource you can use that a continue response and add the resource to share with everyone.
llect teachers thoughts,... STOP START CONTINUE colour code your responses
Taking a TGFU game you already play with your students and adding an element of gamification can increase the participation of those few students who often sit out. This pedagogy style is being implemented everywhere because increases the number of jobs or roles in each game which can be geared towards students practicing different functional skills such as agility, speed, acuracy, self-regulation and communication. Now that you've gathered tip and resources fromt he padlet activity above, it's your chance to put everything into action.
Watch this short video of a simple target game and see if you can come up different ways of implement any gamification elements into the game.
Activity # - Try it yourself
Despite all the tricks and tips we use as Physical Educators, it is still sometimes difficult to get certain students engaged in the unit or activity. We all have different teaching styles and different games that suit our class culture but using game elements in your lessons is something that can be added to any lesson.
Including a sport education unit in your long range plan is a great way to get all your students involved and demonstrate a wide range of skills associated with the sport; from coaching and fitness training, to tournament facilitator and coordinator. Every role is important when it comes to running a successful 'season' and this framework really opens up opportunities for students who want to pursue a career in sport management and many others. This research article shows that sport education increases the motivation in students and promotes a greater climate for "student perceptions of autonomy, competence, and relatedness than traditional PE curricula" Chu, T. L. (Alan), & Zhang, T. (2018).
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e have found that the inclusion of roles during Sport Education not only help in terms of classroom management but also leads to a more complete understanding of the sport studied during the season. “
Siedentop et. at (2019)
Sport Education Unit
To give you a better ideas of what a unit would look like, or how to structure each lesson, below are 2 exerts found in chapter 1: Key Features of the Sport Education Model; What Sport Education Looks like from the book; Complete Guide to Sport Education written by D. Siedentop, P. Hastie, and H. Van Der Mars in 2019.
Lesson Scenario
"Mrs. Thomas’s students enter the gym and immediately disperse to different locations, which have been designated their home areas. One student, who we learn is the fitness leader, leads his team through a series of exercises, which he had prepared prior to class. Another student from his from this team has collected six red hockey sticks and three pucks from the equipment area, and is giving these to the players in her team. Once the warm-up is completed, the students begin two games of two-on-one keep-off in their team area..."
Siedentop et. at (2019)
"Mrs. Thomas’s students enter the gym and immediately disperse to different locations, which have been designated their home areas. One student, who we learn is the fitness leader, leads his team through a series of exercises, which he had prepared prior to class. Another student from his from this team has collected six red hockey sticks and three pucks from the equipment area, and is giving these to the players in her team. Once the warm-up is completed, the students begin two games of two-on-one keep-off in their team area. Meanwhile Ms. Thomas is meeting with the coaches of the six teams in the class and is reviewing some of the tactical problems she saw during matches the lesson before. Ms. Thomas asks each coach in turn to identify what they saw as the main area of need in their own team. She then provides a task sheet to each coach based upon their responses. The coaches now go to lead their teams in a practice.
After 15 minutes of team practice, Ms. Thomas asked the team to get their miniteams organized and then go to their match courts. She also tells them “The scoreboard clock will start in two minutes, so I expect everyone to be ready; that means you too, officiating teams”
On arrival at courts 1 and 2, teams of three players each from the Blades of Wonder and The Ice Foxes take their positions for play while players from the Flaming Sticks take their places in the role of scorekeeper, umpire and statistician. On courts 3 and 4, the other three teams in the classes are making similar arrangements.
At the end of the lesson, all teams return to their home areas, the equipment managers return their inventory and the referees from each match gather in front of the class. In turn each of the officials announces the score, reports the fair play points awarded to each team, and announces the player who received the matches’ “golden puck” award for most amazing play of the day."
Lesson 1 - Introduction, Rules of the game, beginning skills
Lesson 2 - skill testing, team announcements (six teams of
six), discussion of roles (coach, fitness leader,
equipment manager,), teams decide on names,
mascots and colours, teams distribute roles
among team members
Lessons 3-7 whole- class skill instruction, within-team
practices
Lessons 8-10 preseason scrimmages, players learn and
practice duty (officiating) team roles (referee,
scorekeeper, statistician)
Lessons 11-15 Formal competition matches
Lessons 16-17 Playoff matches
Lesson 18 - Championship games (gold, silver and bronze
medal games), Award presentations
Middle School Floor Hockey Season
Siedentop et. at (2019)
A sport education unit is a great way to show your students that every single role is important in a team. Students are constantly working in teams whether it's in sports, working on a group project at school, or doing something at home, work or volunteering that requires them cooperate, listen and work towards the same end goal. There are so many situations where being a good 'team player' is crucial to the success of the project, and the sooner students learn that the better.
Activity # - Read Article
Activity # - Teachable Moment
There are lots of moments like this in sports, teach your students through your own eyes.
Think of a personal story where your role in a sports game or group activity may have been viewed as insignificant, but when it was time for you to shine - resulted in a positive outcome. Keep that story in your back pocket for when that teachable moment with your students comes to be.
but if you emphasize and teach that every student has their own set of skills, students may start to change their perspective and attitudes towards each other. Some students have better hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, organizational skills or a strategic way of thinking. This growth mindset in terms of phys. ed. isn't initially understood by most students but if taught explicitly, they will start to form teams with students that have different skills than them, instead of just picking their friends.
This video is a great example of how everyone's participation on a team is important.
- save this link
- think of your own experience
Activity - The Digital Text book
(THIS ACTIVITY HASN'T BEEN USED YET)
Filler Paragraph,....
write something about this video
- include a reflection piece for teachers, another padlet?
- or a have them try with their students and they have to write their estimated student reaction vs. actual student reaction after this activity,...
slides mania, sligesgo,... use ticktoc video about teacher who makes digital textbooks
Emphasize this for health class... incorporate tech throughout everything
Switch this with the blog post below....
Article
Need to ask .... what do students want?
this article asks the following research questions:
RQ1. What strategies have been used by instructors to motivate and engage
students in online class environment?
RQ2. What are the instructors’ and students’ perceptions regarding online student
engagement strategies?
RQ3. What teaching and learning activities are utilized to engage students in online
learning environments?
Research Articles
To finish off this Module, we invite you to read 3 of 6 of the following research articles. Each research article has roots deep in inclusive pedagogy but touches on different topics and areas. Choose articles that will help you elevate your teaching practice.
