Welcome to EPE 215

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Welcome to EPE 215
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Agenda for today

• Reflecting on the Experience
• Pre-internship
• What we have learned so far
• Period Review
• Completing Expectations and Planning for success

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Are you AWARE of EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE?
http//www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_sa
ys_schools_kill_creativity.html
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More than animals . . . Grass!!
Purposeful Learning experiences
Blank Learning
Learning needs joy
What is this fun stuff?
Integrality is the interconnectedness of ideas
and thoughts regarding movement that transcends
the boundaries of subject areas (D.M. 2009)
If you do not teach children to read . . . are
you negligent? So what is the deal with
movement?
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How do you get a movement vocabulary?
Absolute-connectedness
Food processor
Everything connected . . . Does not express
Integrality
Doing and observing movement
How do you improve your math or reading
vocabulary?
Education through the Physical is everywhere and
the skills you learn from it you apply to other
aspects of your life
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Movement vocabulary is everywhere!
We are not teaching them to bump . . . we are
teaching them quantity and quality of movement
You dont have to be an expert to understand
movement
Vocabulary comprehension!
You need to FEEL the movement
Education through the Physical does not have to
related specifically to personal skill!!
What does bird migration and soccer have in
common?
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What do you wish for the children you teach to
learn for the rest of their lives?
Contextual
Affective
Human Movement Psychomotor
Cognitive
Temporal
Affiliative
Behavioural
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All human movement is inter-related
You have to heighten your awareness of human
movement in all its forms
To do this you do not necessarily have to do it
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Your Movement Vocabulary begins with you
understandinglink

• How the body moves
• Time
• Weight
• Space
• Flow

• Where the body is
• Personal spaces
• General spaces
• Directions
• Levels
• Extensions
• Pathways

• What the body does
• Transference of weight
• Balance
• Body parts
• Whole held shapes
• Moving shapes

• With Whom or What body moves
• With people
• With apparatus

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• What do I wish children to learn for the rest of
  their lives while I am their teacher?
• How can movement be used to assist me in
  answering this critical question?
• What do I wish the children I am teaching to
  understand?

Creating sequential educational movement learning
experiences.
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Human movement is a vehicle to teach . .
Locomotor Non-locomotor Manipulative
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Sequential Learning Experiences

• First movement experience leading to the next
  movement experience, which leads to the next and
  so on . . . and so on . . . and so on . . . . . .

For what purpose?
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vklj12Z_ARow
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Understanding Education through the Physical

• Decide on movement component (s) link
• Have the answers to the questions in mind
• Consider child readiness
• Plan an initial movement experience within a
  learning context 1
• Continue developing the movement and continue to
  develop what you wish to teach the children
  through
• expanding the movement sequence
• using resources to reinforce
• linking other learnings (interdisciplinary)

1 heightening a childs awareness of movement
in relationship to what you wish that child to
learn (concept) for the rest of their lives.
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Developmental Learning Experience (DLE) (Group
work) Each pair will create an developmental
learning experience designed as a vehicle to
assisting you in what collectively you think is
significantly important for children to learn for
the rest of their lives. Attention will be given
to Fundamental skills as they relate to
dance-like, games-like, gymnastic-like
movement Fundamental concepts related to your
learning orientation Learning resources that
support and augment learning The nature of the
experience will focus on childrens movement as
related to the Saskatchewan Learning Physical
Education curriculum. Consideration needs to be
given to experiential, unique learning
environments, interdisciplinarity, multi-sensory,
and spirituality. This is a professional
academic document that may be presented to a
Principal, a Parent or a Director of Education.
More information and class time will be devoted
to this assignment
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Next Experience

• We will meet in the ED 341
• March 26, 2009

Tuesday March 31st we will be teaching Grade 4-5
and 6 students from Jack MacKenzie Elementary
School