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4/8/2013

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Choosing to be a physical education teacher can and should be a very rewarding experience, especially considering how times have changed and it is much easier to connect with like-minded professionals around the globe through blogging, Twitter etc. Making these important connections with other PE practitioners can serve to immediately improve upon one's teaching practice as there are so many opportunities to share and to learn from one another. 

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I was recently able to connect with Kelly Ann Parry, a doctorate student in physical education from Wollongong University in New South Wales, Australia. She shares her vision of PE and backs her teaching up with sound pedagogical research. Her passion is obvious and her 4th year university students are lucky to have her as their course instructor.

As her students are working on understanding different types of instructional models related to the teaching of Athletics, Kelly asked me if I would be willing to Skype with her and her 4th year students to discuss my own approach to teaching Athletics to elementary students. I was obviously happy to do so as I value any opportunity for healthy discussion related to physical education in general, but in this case I am actually engaged in an Athletics unit at the moment, so the timing was perfect. 

Speaking with her students on Skype was an excellent experience and I was reminded about my own days long ago when I was doing my teacher training. Was it ever different then! Kelly's students came up with some great questions that helped carry the discussion forward. Some of the topics discussed were student management, assessment, behavior management, differentiation, safety concerns, ensuring an approach that helps students with disabilities achieve success, and international education in general. Well done to Kelly and her students. I was happy to be a part of the discussion. Kelly Ann Parry can be found on Twitter at @kellyannparry. 

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5/10/2013 03:18:07 pm

My apologies for the delayed reply but I have only just been reconnected with the world, since having no Internet for a month. Firstly, I want to thank you again Andy for taking part in my lecture (especially since you were up at the crack of dawn). I am always looking for new and innovative ways to interact with my students and demonstrate how technology can be integrated into practice.

As you have outlined, the purpose of the lecture was to show students different pedagogical approaches to teaching Athletics. Having traditionally taught Athletics through a very skill driven and teacher directed approach. I was determined to show my students that not only does teaching in this way isolate less able students; it inhibits students from developing problem solving, decision-making and communicating skills. Personally, I believe that this approach is incapable of meeting worthwhile educational outcomes in Physical Education. Having come across you on Twitter and read your blog, I was thrilled to see you taking an educated risk with your teaching practice and redefining how you taught Athletics. Your ‘Student Designed Athletics Unit’, aligned perfectly with my ‘Athletics through Games’ (see my blog for more detail: http://www.teachhpe.com/1/post/2013/03/teaching-athletics-through-games.html).
I valued the insight you gave them into how you were approaching your Athletics Unit and how you were prepared to put what you believed about teaching and learning to the test. You made me feel very proud to be a #PEGeek. The students enjoyed being able to interact with you through Skype and to be able to ask you questions not only about your Athletics Unit but the teaching profession and the International Board School system. Many of them will be faced with trying to find a job at the end of the year and with the teaching profession so heavily equipped with HPE teachers, many of them are going to have to start looking further afield. You gave them a great insight to this. Many of them stayed behind and asked questions about teaching over seas and thanked me for taking the time to give them access to a lecture like that. I will be interested to see how my evaluations in this subject go.
Thanks again Andy and keep up the inspiring work you are doing. I commend you for taking the time to not only blog your success but to reflect and discuss on your failures. Let’s do work together again some time ;)

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