LET'S TALK INCLUSIVE PE!

Hi everybody & welcome back! This week, we're talking about Cooperative Games. I've attached the chart we've been referencing below with all of the newest additions!

Hi everybody! In typical student fashion, this week has gotten the best of me. With so many things on my plate, I am going to hold off on posting about Cooperative Games until next week. For now, I am including a couple of resources that I fangirl over (and hope you will too!) for all things Phys Ed. 1. The HPE Podcast 2. CIRA Ontario 3. OPHEA Canada 4. LAMPE (Learning About Meaningful Experiences in Physical Education & Sport) on Twitter 5. PHE Canada Keep being your rockstar selves & I'll talk to you soon! -H

Hello everybody & welcome back to another exciting week of inclusive Phys Ed! This week, we're focusing on the very popular game type - Games of Low Organization (GLOs!) The main point of this game type is to maximize gameplay and stuednt participation by creating an environment that prioritizes fair play and emphasizes the importance of fitness, teamwork, and fun. Pretty cool right? GLOs focus on developing one game skill and body management skill at a time (e.g., locomotor and stability skills). Body management concepts that are a major part of GLOs inclde effort, relationship, body awareness, and spatial awareness. GLOs can be played by any age group and adapted to fit the various developmental and physical abilities of our students. Given their quick setup and high participation levels, GLOs place much less demand on students in terms of complex roles, strategies, and rules. GLOs also teach students life skills. Thses include communication and interpersonal skills, decis

Hi everybody & welcome back to another very exciting week on the blog! Starting this week, I am going to devote each weekly blog post to one game type for our plan. Here, I will define the game type and provide modified activity examples for PE Educators to use in their own classrooms. These modifications will cover a range of abilities with the hope of addressing most of the students you will come across in your classrooms. So without further ado, this week's focus is *drum roll* STRIKING & FIELDING GAMES! First and foremost, let's talk about what a striking and fielding game is. In this game type, players on the "batting" team strike (or hit) an object into the "field". From here, the batting team's goal is to run between two points before the other team (the "fielding" team) returns the object to a set point (e.g., homeplate in baseball). The batting and fielding teams rotate roles throughout the game. The rotation is usually dete

Hi everybody, and welcome back to my blog! The fun has officially begun! The All Access Fitness program is officially in the works and I am SO excited to start this journey with you. This week, I began some preliminary research. For being such a broad topic, it was important to me to narrow down the types of activities I wanted to include that were both exciting for students and realistic to modify. In order to be as far-reaching as possible, I also wanted to ensure that I was choosing acitivites from a range of movement types and game forms so that they can be implemented in any classroom, unit, or environment. For me, this proved to be a challenge since (as I'm sure you can imagine) the wealth of Phys Ed resources and games is L A R G E. It felt like my brain was going a mile per minute trying to navigate from website to website, selecting which activities I thought would fit best. I soon began to realize that there is no such thing as a "perfect" fit. Instead, the p