I advocate learning
#FMS
through
#play
- children's natural driver of movement. Each of the 132 activities in my book draws from dance, gymnastics, athletics, games & traditional childhood activities. Differentiation is built in. Please DM me for more details re. purchase
#physed
Ballerina Kitty Phetla performing a rain dance in South Africa in 2017. She was inspired to choreograph and perform this by Queen Modjadji, The Rain Queen of the Balobedu people. About a week after dancing at the reservoir, it started to rain in the Western Cape.
#dance
#ballet
@drseanmullen
I never โtrust the scienceโ - just look at the historical disasters we have had across the world (particularly with unethical medical practices). Science is supposed to be questioned. And as a MD perhaps you might quantify what you mean by โmasksโ? N95 and changed how often?
#Teqvoly
is a volleyball-based sport that is played on a curved table. Players develop their collaboration, focus, reaction time & technical precision in this game. The women's team shown here recently achieved one of the longest rallies in teqvoly's history ๐
#womeninsport
@MikeBalsamo1
My eldest brother was gunned down in his 30s whilst living in Jamaica. NOTHING will ever bring him back to us. His killer got off. But I forgive him. The death of my loved one is not healed by the death of his murderer. Anger is the poison that kills the roots of the tree ๐
Tired of seeing so much didactic teaching in primary phys ed I wrote a book on learning fundamental movement skills through play. I sell these privately to those looking for creative, fun ways into teaching and learning. Message me if interested :)
@7NewsAustralia
Great news, but please drop the word 'refused' from your headline. That implies they have been disobedient ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
You can't mandate a 'vaccine' that a) has side effects, b) has no long term safety data, and c) does not prevent infection.
That's not science, that's coercion ๐โโ๏ธ
@ellymelly
My beautiful Wiradjuri friend didn't want to take the vaccine but had to as she is having cancer treatment. The 2nd jab gave her blood clots around her heart & she was rushed to hospital. Thankfully she survived, but is now on blood thinners. MSM don't talk about these things ๐ฅบ
@ehh_ptr
๐ฅ Great tweet ๐ฅ
Passive defiance is a beautiful thing in a woman โค๏ธโค๏ธ
My dad once bought my mum a new frying pan for her birthday. She never let him live it down. It was part of family gathering conversations for decades. He learned the hard way too โบ๏ธ
This has actually made my day! ๐
BLOCKED by Tom, who is unwilling to engage with the questions I have for him about his behaviour management 'expertise' in relation to
#inclusion
,
#trauma
,
#Indigenous
needs etc.
Scared to take me on then eh, Tom? ๐
#TomBennett
@TheMilkBarTV
This is the pandemic trauma that nobody talks about in MSM for more than a few minutes. Thank you for keeping us advised and making your important video logs of the inhumane acts that went on. Melbourne residents still talk about this time as dark dark days.
Such a novel way to begin an e-mail extension request from a student in my creative arts subject, who is a single parent. She sent me this visual representation of her family-study-work 'load'. Bless her ๐ (she got the extension โบ๏ธ)
#creativearts
#empathy
#AcademicChatter
#TomBennett
is now playing the victim ๐คญ
He has no published research, and never attends *real* research conferences with his alleged evidence-based work.
Of course weโre going to challenge his evidence base, thatโs normal in academia.
Oh I forgot, heโs a
#fakeprof
๐
@drseanmullen
We need to consider the general adverse effects of masks - on children especially. My daughter is in schools right now as a trainee & there are some major psych. issues with sec. students who have become 'attached' to masks. Younger kids are having speech development delays too.
@lizduckchong
When I got tired of the crowds in school I would fake a headache and get some alone time at home, writing my recipe books. I was the family cake maker as a teenager and still love to bake regularly for my own daughters.
Might I suggest something more motivating and educational than running laps? Then Olivia might not feel this way about PE in the first place? Itโs Physical EDUCATION not fitness training ๐ง
#physed
#physicaleducation
#edutwitter
When are we going to see
#wellbeing
as the bedrock of our work as academics? I'm not talking mindfulness, I'm not talking reduced fee gym passes, I'm talking authentic, holistic wellbeing. This must be staff-centred and involve regular consultation with them
#AcademicChatter
More than 100,000 excess deaths involving cardiovascular conditions occurred in England since February 2020.
โWhy arenโt universities being given emergency grants to investigate this?โ Campbell said.
@GOVUK
#excessdeaths
#heartdisease
Iโm forming a new โ
#Research
in PE & Sportโ [RePS] group (the name is to be discussed โ provisional acronym only). This group is open-ended and anyone can join. Please DM me with your e-mail details. And do spread the word too ๐
#physed
#physicaleducation
#sport
#teachers
This research will likely put the cat amongst the (health advocate) pigeons. Your thoughts? ๐งThe primary objective of PE should be "facilitating positive experiences that lead to improvements in confidence, competence, and ultimately enjoyment".
#physed
@OzraeliAvi
Shame on you
@NSWpolice
. Learn some interpersonal skills and child protection laws before you parade your power in the streets and persecute a mum and her child for conducting a peaceful protest. Flexing your muscles in the C19 crisis is thuggery and victimisation ๐ก
We have truly underestimated the effect that a return to campus has had on all of us: lecturers & students. We're all having to find a different rhythm, change sleep patterns, get used to more social connections/noisy office spaces... We are humans, not robots.
#AcademicChatter
@theJeremyVine
In his head he's still a young man. He slips as he tries to partially run up the steps. But, his body can't do what it thinks it can. Age affects us all. However, his mind is phenomenal. I'd like to have all my marbles the way he does at 78 AND lead a country out of Trumpdom.
Every day your body will have a different rhythm. Feel it as you wake and move throughout the day. Listen to its internal beat and try to go with the flow, releasing your self-inflicted, urgent pace... ๐๐
#mindfulness
@drlouisehansen
@ScottMorrisonMP
I feel myself flinch when he speaks. And yes, it is embodied trauma. He doesn't seem to realise that raising his voice will not increase the significance of his words ๐
If I see one more video of alleged best practice in PE with queueing, I'm gonna come off Twitter for a whole week.
It's just not good for my facial wrinkles ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ค
And if you hit me with they learn by watching I'm gonna exit faster ๐คญ
#DoingNotQueueing
#physed
#physicaleducation
The UK NC in PE really does need a re-think:
"A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities".
Why does it have to have "competitive sport" placed first? And "succeed"/"excel"?
I applaud the fact that all children are moving ๐ But Iโm not sure we can say with any conviction that we are improving childrenโs fitness thru such activities. And more to the point, why do we even want to? ๐ค Itโs what I call the classic hijacking of
#physed
aka
#fitnesshoax
Relentlessly e-mailed and called by one student across the weekend and Monday about an extension. I granted it on Monday pm, reminding her that there was a 3 working day policy for e-mail responses. She asked me โwhich are your 3 working days thenโ? ๐คฃ
#AcademicChatter
#logical
@CKellyUAP
And they banned IVM as it would allegedly make people โvaccine hesitantโ if they thought they could find a cheap and effective cure for Covid. Yes we know what govt did and we wonโt forget ๐ โโ๏ธ
A PhD is a PhD right? ๐คจ How can we compare the merits of one PhD topic with another? They make you a world-class expert in your specific field don't they? Answers require one sentence only on a postcard below, and/or a related GIF. Ta โบ๏ธ
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
Mindfulness for anxiety can be a wonderful tool. Invite your anxious thoughts in rather than banishing them. Welcome them. Examine them. Accept them. Let them co-exist with you, but always remember that you are oh so much more than your anxious thoughts ๐ค๐โค๏ธ
#mindfulness
Gender-neutral ways to address a group in sport/PE. Something other than 'guys'? ๐
I loved 'epic humans' - how about you?
I also just use 'OK everyone' to regain a group's attention ๐
#physed
#physicaleducation
Where's the evidence-based research to support the UK Government's hypothesis that elite sports stars are key motivators of PA? ๐ง In this recent UK active research, children are more inspired by primary school teachers than professional athletes
#teaching
For the love of GODDESS, how Joe is still managing to get away with his โPE with Joeโ title I donโt know.
Once and for all, what he does is NOT PE. We educate in PE. We donโt train kids to get fit!
Happy to chat
@thebodycoach
to explain what PE is.
It's the small things that often matter most. The kind word. The smile across the room. The hug. The meal you cooked. The laugh you shared. Each day we can make a difference to others' lives and simultaneously enrich our own ๐๐
#kindnessmatters
#rippleeffect
Did you know that Raducanu is a product of multi-sports? Her engagement in ballet, basketball, table tennis, golf, horse riding, skiing etc. is one of the reasons why her coach thinks she is so adaptable and creative in her game play.
#multisport
#sport
#tennis
It's not about thinking positively all the time
It's about becoming aware of your thinking
Be that negative, positive
Or somewhere in between
And moving closer to difficulty
To understand it better
Or even to help it dissipate
When you're ready ๐
#mindfulness
Pic: John Wilhelm
Remember, today was just one day in the grand scheme of life. Tomorrow is another day. Breathe and watch it all unfold... ๐๐ป๐ค๐๐๐
#mindfulness
#lovelife
@antaraganguli
Letโs add decades of institutional discrimination to that too. Thatโs been exhausting for me. Itโs really not that long ago (in many countries) that women were permitted entry to university and/or the workplace. Still issues there across the globe of course.
@Dr2NisreenAlwan
I'm sorry to hear that. I can really relate. In academia I have had women ignoring my previous suggestions and then listening to men's regurgitation of them. We seem to be socialised to listen to male authority first. Only when we become aware of it can changes can be made! ๐
90 consecutive minutes of Zoom PD on staff/student wellbeing. It kind of negates the topic if we are all sitting for the full time and screen-gazing doesn't it? ๐ค
#wellbeingPD
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
@dystopian_DU
@SenatorRennick
He disrupts accepted biomedical โtruthsโ. And yes, this is indeed bad news. I reckon he wonโt stay out of politics for long. Just shows how biased the whole political system is in this country ๐
My PE legacy will be inclusion I hope.
I can't remember how many times I have said it, but here it is again.
๐ NEVER allow eliminations in PE - students who get 'out' are either the PE avoiders or the ones who need more skill development.
#physed
#physicaleducation
#inclusion
The cockatoos came to visit for their daily water. They are the strong and noisy survivors of the enduring bushfire smoke here in Albury
#AustralianBushfire
#NSWbushfires
@CT_Bergstrom
I recently had an exec male challenge me about a Guardian article (based on research) that I posted with my reflections. He said he was surprised that a โDrโ would do such a thing as I had access to peer-reviewed sources. There is such SNOBBERY in the whole peer review process ๐
Been headhunted today. That's a first for me by another university. Looks like a nice creative arts/health position across the Bass Strait. Got me thinking about life and career anyway โบ๏ธ
Here's a new Irish PE case study that might interest some of you. In Ireland, the first 3 years of secondary PE is taught within the broader programme area of
#wellbeing
, which influences the aims and objectives that need to be achieved.
#physed
#pedagogy
โก๏ธ Letโs talk about queuing in PE.
Iโm seeing a lot of videos on Insta from very popular PE accounts that show 7-8 students all being good little citizens and waiting in line. What are some of the ways you avoid/reduce queuing? Please share ๐
#physed
#eduPE
#physicaleducation
The birds have vanished in the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and I,
until only the mountain remains.
~ Li Po.
Pic: Samal Tofik
Make a promise to yourself today. I am my own best friend. I am imperfect as all human beings are. And I am comfortable with my imperfection ๐๐
#mindfulness
Paige Tobin is a 6 year old with a love of pink tutus AND skateboarding. And why not? Who's to say that she can't embrace her femininity ๐ and her physicality at the same time? ๐โโ๏ธ Check out her dynamic balance and
#courage
in this short clip.
#girlsinsport
#skateboarding
#FMS
I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
Around me like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
Where I left them, asleep like cattleโฆ
~ Wendell Berry
#poem
#mindfulness
@TonyNikolic10
Employers across Australia were the vaccine lackeys for the politicians. They did their dirty work by mandating all the worker bees. Meanwhile the politicians were not mandated. Classic network of governance that nobody talks about on MSM.
Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the US in the 1912 Olympics. He had his running shoes stolen the morning of the event. He found two mismatched shoes in the garbage, ran in them, and won two gold medals that very same day ๐ฅ๐ฅ
#Olympics
#resilience
@the_c0ugar
@OzraeliAvi
She was protesting very quietly, with a sign around her neck. Why are you blaming the mother for taking her child with her? Perhaps she has no childcare (given the C19 crisis) and there is nothing wrong with her introducing her young child to a peaceful protest. Good mother ๐๐
@DALupton
Iโm just not sure why anyone would want to keep sharing their personal medical history on social media? I never have. When did this become a thing? Therefore, perhaps it invites attention - good and bad and indifferent?
Hi Daniel, nice to meet you here.
Academia has standards (peer review is one of these) that we all have to meet in order to attend conferences and publish our findings.
These are not *my* rules ๐
@3dancingfeet
@5Naureen
It's fine to be proud of getting your PhD through hard work at the academic chalkface, but appointing yourself the arbiter of what is and isn't a '*real* research conference' makes you seem a bit weird and controlling.
@jn_professor
And, my mobile phone is MY mobile phone. The university does not pay my bills. It has never, and will never, be linked to my university e-mail account ๐
Why do we so often reward armoured souls in academia? Why is there such little room for emotions, vulnerability and just being human? ๐๐นโค๏ธ
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
#academia
@phbarratt
Thank you ๐ Aside from it being gender-unfriendly, it also implies that toxic masculinity is a way forward through a global health crisis. Now that IS scary ๐
@ZJAyres
Moved to Australia from the UK to begin an improved wellbeing journey with my 2 teenage daughters after years of inclusion issues in the UK uni system. Started and finished my PhD in 4 years & 4 months here while raising my girls singlehandedly & working full-time as a lecturer.
Exciting times! Just had our first Research in PE & Sport meeting with participants from across the globe ๐
Lots of shared interests & publishing ideas across the group.
And as
@PhilMathe79_PE
said - we finally got to meet people face-to-face too after all this tweeting time ๐
@amydjohn
I've worked for Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) for many years developing & leading pedagogical change in PE in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Egypt, Myanmar... Love this work and would do it full-time if the contracts weren't so erratic. Ties in with my research too.
Can we please talk about the real stuff and stop sugarcoating this new era of compulsory online teaching? I don't want to send in success stories, I want to talk about how much students/staff are missing our experiential workshops in the creative arts
#AcademicChatter
If you were to count up all the extra hours that you gave to your university across this COVID-19 year in order to teach solely online and fully support your students, how much overtime have you done unpaid? (days/weeks) ๐ง
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
Genuine question here.
How are movement competence & confidence spoken about here & holistic learning different from quality PE?
Try as I might, I donโt understand PL & think it distracts us from our core purpose in PE.
We canโt measure PL, we *can* teach & measure quality PE.
๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ต๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐? ๐ญ
You have to watch this video! Snippet below and a link to the full video.
@PEScholar
@LizDurdenMyers
Conversations online with PE teachers all over the world this week merely confirm to me that sport and fitness discourses continue to dominate. Even when theyโre presented with alternative ways of teaching PE there is this absolute mental block. And rigidity. Sigh ๐
#physed
@GillianKeegan
Hey Gillian. Where is your research coming from? Happy to have a chat about this misguided perception you have of PE. Back in the 1980s Talbot and others were talking about this gender issue. An activity-led or sport-led approach in PE is not best practice.
Please explain to me what's different between this PL framework in Aus and high quality, inclusive, holistic PE. I can't believe that this is being promoted as something 'new'. It's just a reinvention of how we have writing PE curriculum for decades ๐โโ๏ธ
#physicalliteracy
#physed
When you feel yourself operating on autopilot, look up at the trees and clouds. Nature offers us daily delight. Pause. Breathe. Relax. Time can be slowed. Healing can begin
#mindfulness
#HartzerPark
#silentretreat
We often talk about the pathway from a junior to a senior athlete as if it is a given. It's not, according to this latest research: "Most of the highest-performing seniors had a lower performance level at junior age than the highest-performing juniors..."
@SHFaulkner
I was told that I should work regular evenings & weekends during my PhD to complete it. I worked every Sunday to finish it in the time awarded whilst teaching full-time. It exhausted me & I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Saturdays/week evenings were always spent with family.
Does anyone else find it incredibly irritating to receive "important reminders" about next semester (3 months away) when you are only a few weeks into a current semester? Let me just breeeeeathe a while please ๐ณ
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
Won some funding โ
Now in
#Melbourne
โค๏ธ
Evening welcome event for the Australian Association for
#Research
in Education was lovely.
4 days of learning and sharing ahead.
Presenting on my
#wellbeing
research project on Tuesday ๐ค
#AARE2023
#academia
For me, it was always about the people, not the prestige โค๏ธ๐โค๏ธ
Forget the related stats, a doctorate is a doctorate. And some of us canโt/donโt want to work in sandstone or red brick universities that seek the crรจme de la crรจme either. For all sorts of reasonsโฆ.
Itโs my birthday today & always a time for reflection. Nearly 20yrs ago I lost my twin brother due to
#cardiomyopathy
Since then I have worked hard to develop my own understanding of health/wellbeing. I celebrate the 2 of us today, as I always do. Miss John every day โค๏ธโค๏ธ
#Twins
@aquaholic_bee
Yes I'd keep them. They have other skills that are valuable. We need to broaden PE to include generalists and not just team sport specialists. The pipeline from PE training to teaching is often dominated by sports bods. This is why we have the problems that we do in PE pedagogy.
@melissacreate15
@MissStanleyYr6
@OGTeaches
The purpose of PE is not keeping fit. And I would argue that โteamworkโ is actually about learning how to collaborate (social skills) through a range of physical activities, in groups and teams. The language of PE is very, very important. Too much emphasis on fitness/sport ๐ณ
First day at The American School of Madrid helping them to modernise their PE curriculum. After working through the document analysis Iโd done before flying here, teachers created a provisional curriculum framework for concepts, skills and learning activities.
#physed
This online resource takes you to some short videos that show children performing each skill at different stages of development. There are ideas for FMS-related games here too
#FMS
#physed
#teachingPE
#earlyyears
#primaryPE
@jenheemstra
I donโt know what my h-index is & donโt wanna know. Due to family demands & high teaching loads for years I know Iโll never have a major list of publications. But I know the positive effect I have on studentsโ future teaching practices & this is enough. It always will be โบ๏ธ
You can't fix something with money! Primary PE was broken in 2004 when I first started working in teacher training in England. I haven't seen any real improvements since, but do correct me if I'm wrong ๐โโ๏ธ
#physed
#physicaleducation
#primaryPE
@AcademicChatter
One was enough to destroy my life for five years. Couldn't ever contemplate a second. It's the highest qualification you can obtain. Life is short. Learn to live a little โบ๏ธ
@maryvpeace
I'd love to know what their definition of "highly skilled jobs" is & where their evidence for annihilating English Lit degrees comes from too.
These politicians operate on pure whims and fancies. I never voted any of them in as I know what they're like and always have. Who did?
it is what I was born for -
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft worldโ
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
~ Mary Oliver
#mindfulness
This is my favourite tweet of the weekend ๐
Thank goodness some people donโt have to deal with TB invading their country and educational spaces with his zero tolerance behaviour strategies designed for Oliver Twist.
#fakeprof
@naomicfisher
The schooling process hasnโt changed in decades. Itโs designed to create compliant โgoodโ little citizens. We talk a lot about creativity and critical thinking. Govt doesnโt want these aptitudes. They want disciplined individuals who will pay their taxes and work โtil they drop.
Live in the present
None of us know how much future we have
Appreciate each day
Be it a week day or the weekend
Find a job you love
Or bring love to it โค๏ธ
#mindfulness
#life
#gratitude
New article of mine on 'Teaching Fundamental Movement Skills Through Play-Based Pedagogy'.
First 50 copies free via this link. After that, just DM me ๐
The journey to get this published was arduous. Began in 2019 with another journal...
#FMS
#physed
Off to Mongolia today! Honoured to be invited by the Ministry of Education and Cambridge University to work with curriculum developers on primary PE โ๏ธ๐๐ฒ๐ณ๐คธ
#PhysEd
#physicaleducation
#mongolia