2021 Professional Learning wrap up
ACHPER NSW professional learning team reflect on 2021 and PDHPE teacher professional development.
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Professional learning summer series
Interested in some professional learning over summer? Janice Atkin provides some of her top recommendation to watch, read and listen.
2021 wrap up
ACHPER NSW Executive Officer Tracy Pukeridge wraps up 2021, reflecting on what we’ve achieved and thanking the many people who help ACHPER NSW.
Keep learners engaged
Looking for a way to engage learners in the last few weeks of the school year? Veronica Brogden shares one of her favourite end of year activities.
IDPWD 2021
Friday 3 December 2021 is International Day of People with Disability. Start a conversation in your classroom.
Reimagining kicks off
ACHPER NSW new workshop series Reimagining PE has kicked off, with 60 teachers coming along to #reimaginepe. Photos and more.
Unfriendly friendships
Bullying and friendship issues and their impact on young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Sun and UV at school resources
Practical Sun and UV at School teaching resources from The Cancer Institute NSW.
Return to school from remote learning
Five tips for teachers returning to school from remote learning.
Tips for success in teaching Stage 6 PDHPE
Are you new to teaching Stage 6 PDHPE or just want to know the secrets of successful teachers? Alison Pool, PDHPE teacher Prairiewood High School, provides her top tips.
Primary RFF teaching – Is it for you?
After 18 years as a high school PDHPE teaching, Lisa Quinn switched to a primary school PE specialist role. She reflects and shares her learnings.
The Paralympics … a perfect opportunity to start changing the conversation around disability
Paralympics – a great opportunity to have a conversation about disability and social inclusion “I think most people aren’t aware that their communities aren’t even accessible to the 15 per cent of the community that have a disability.” Ellie Cole, Australian Paralympian swimmer As teachers we have the opportunity to use Paralympics as a stimulus to …
Are you in the process of selecting your senior subjects?
Thinking of choosing a health or PE subject in years 11 and 12? Here’s what you need to know Shutterstock Brendon Hyndman, Charles Sturt University and Vaughan Cruickshank, University of Tasmania This article is part of a series providing school students with evidence-based advice for choosing subjects in their senior years. From kindergarten to year 10, …
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Revision activities for Stage 6 PDHPE Core 1
Using COVID as a case study for revising Core 1 Original image source: The Guardian Australia If any good has come out of the COVID-19 pandemic it has been the daily updates on case numbers and the increased visibility of epidemiology at work. Given the high profile of epidemiologists in the media, COVID-19 provides a …
My life as a first year teacher – Reflections by Brooke Garland (Wellington HS)
First year teacher Brooke Garland from Wellington High School reflects on the experience and what she’s learning.
ICYMI – Most popular in April on ACHPER’s social media
Some of our most popular posts on social media for April
Is all learning quantifiable?
If anyone has ever seen an episode of The Office you would know that most scenes are steeped in many hilarious and rich interactions between colleagues, often within small confines such as around the water cooler or photocopier. Whilst the show offers an over the top view of the myriad of smaller discussions that consistently …
A balance at exam time
Students who study any subject within the PDHPE Key Learning Area know about the importance of balance. This can be easily applied to the preparation that goes into sitting any exam for students. Below are some simple strategies for students to adopt before, during and after exam time. Studying Develop a realistic study timetable …
Learners need endless feedback, more than they need endless teaching
“Learners need endless feedback, more than they need endless teaching”. (Grant Wiggins) Trial HSC Examinations across NSW have either just finished or about to begin. Students prepare for their trials, they sit them, teachers mark their exams and give them back their results, students spend about one minute looking at their marks. This is …
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Drawing from the well – taking care of the care taker
As the end of the term draws to a close, you probably have one eye glued to the calendar as you will yourself into the holidays. Often at this stage of the year, fatigue is battling with the seemingly never ending lists of tasks to be completed – you’ve been working hard on reports, registers, …
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Preparation is the key to good results
As #CAFS NSW students begin to think about preparing for their HSC trials, it is timely to discuss what they can do to give the exams their best shot. 1. Know the syllabus This goes without saying. Knowing the syllabus intimately is a key component to achieving good results in CAFS (and for any other …
How can schools and parents balance screen-time and green-time? Part 3
As earlier stated, digital amputation is not a solution. Teaching our kids healthy media habits is critical. This requires action on behalf of schools, parents and health professionals, which in turn requires learning and upskilling because parents and educators are the first generation of raising and working with digital natives. Put simply, you don’t know …
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Why we need to teach kids to balance screen-time and green-time – Part 2
// Mind-wandering mode Time unplugged and in nature allows our students’ brains to enter what neuroscientists call ‘mind wandering mode’ which is also considered the ‘default mode’ of thinking. When our students are outdoors, they’re away from their screens (hopefully) and therefore they’re not processing the multitude of sensory input that screens offer (sounds, animations, …
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Why we must teach kids to balance their screen-time and green-time by Dr Kristy Goodwin
Our kids are experiencing digitalised childhoods. Their plugged-in childhoods are impacting their health, development and even the ways that they want and expect to learn. Technology is changing so many things about childhood and adolescence. For example, we now know that today’s kids are leading more sedentary lives and one of the reasons (it’s certainly …
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How will your school take action against bullying?
Bullying remains a complex and critical issue within schools, with 1 in 4 students reporting that they’ve been bullied on a regular basis. [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGY5eREAoPU” pex_attr_width=”760″][/pexyoutube] This infographic created from statistics from the Australian Covert Bullying Prevalence Study shows just what impact bullying is having on students in our schools.
How SAAFE are your PE lessons?
Although the health benefits of participating in regular physical activity are extensive, the majority of young Australians are not sufficiently active. The pandemic of ‘physical inactivity’ is not only influencing our health, but also our hip pocket, with global estimates suggesting in excess of US$50 billion is being spent on health care related to inactivity. …
Improving performance in PDHPE and CAFS
Improving performance in both PDHPE and CAFS (and any other subject area) involves adopting a variety of different strategies to support and grow student learning. These strategies can be based around learning activities, groupings, types of assessment tasks, exam techniques or even feedback provided to students. Student feedback has been recognised as one of the …
Literacy in PDHPE – Dan Jackson
To some, PDHPE and literacy in the same sentence may only be used as a reference to a ticked box in a programme for compliance. To others, it may be something that has become an important focus of their professional learning and professional reading, which is clearly evident within their PDHPE classroom. Without become confused …
Getting to know your students
At the beginning of a new school year it is timely for PDHPE teachers (and all teachers in education, including those who teach Community and Family Studies, Exploring Early Childhood and Child Studies!) to think about how they are going to create positive relationships with their students. PDHPE teachers all know too well about the …
For students to flourish we must cherish teachers
“All young people are loved and safe, have material basics, are healthy, are learning and participating and have a positive sense of identity and culture.” This is the vision for the NEST action agenda – a national plan for child and youth wellbeing – for all Australia’s children. The Student Wellbeing Action Network (SWAN) was …
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