Dr. Garth Pickard

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Welcome to EPE 215
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Purpose of todays learning experience is to

• Expanding our movement awareness and our idea of
  classroom!
• making Education through the Physical
  MEANINGFUL
• Discussion regarding the class expectations, your
  observations and questions

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• Movement experience
• Instructional strategies for active listening
• Discussion about making meaning from movement
• A Movement concept example
• Pathways

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Teaching Styles
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Teaching Styles Link

• Direct (Command)
• Task
• Reciprocal
• Guided Discovery
• Problem Solving
• Indirect (Discovery)

Who decides to decide . . . Who decides??
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LISTEN AND DO WHAT I DO
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Reflect on what was experienced

• Who decides to decide . . . Who decides!
• Verbal, non-verbal Qs
• Developmental skills
• Movement literacy

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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
Cognitive
Temporal
Affiliative
Behavioural
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Making Connections

• What do you wish for the children you teach to
  learn for the rest of their lives?
• What could and should be used to support this
  learning?
• How do you create a sequential and development
  learning experience for such learning to occur?

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Your Stories
http//www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/

• Fun and active
• Competitive
• All boys stuff
• Games, games, games . . .
• Murder ball!!

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Increasing personal movement awarenesslink

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

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

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

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

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Lets look at

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

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Lets look at
Where the body moves Personal spaces General
spaces Directions Levels Extensions Pathways
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Lets look at

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

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Lets look at

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

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Increasing personal movement awarenesslink

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

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Where are you going?

• The importance of Space Awareness

Direction of travel compass
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Pathways - Where are you going?
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Pathways - Where are you going?
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Pathways - Where are you going?
All movement encompasses What, Where, How and
With Whom, however, Look for Pathways
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Where are you going?

• In your group, and using the materials in the
  envelop at your group station, complete the
  following tasks.
• PLEASE
• Listen for instructions and example.

• By your self - draw out a pathway and practice
  TRAVELLING it
• Change the rhythm of your movement
• Change the shape of your movement
• Change the level of your movement
• Join with the rest of your group and combine your
  pathway with theirs

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Education through the Physical
Vertical Curriculum
Horizontal Curriculum
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Education Through the Physical

• Course Expectations
• LINK

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1. Pre-writing Planning Link
2. First Draft
3. Revising (Read to a colleague) TAG Tell
   something you like about their writing, Ask
   questions, Give some advise.
4. Self-edit COPS Capitalization, Organization,
   Punctuation and Spelling.
5. Partner-edit
6. Teacher-edit
7. Final draft

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Next meeting

• We will meet in
• Gymnasium Classroom ED 255
• Thursday, January 15, 2009
• Please read Pickard, G. (2007). Coming to Our
  Senses The Preparation of Pre-service Teachers
  and the Implications for Education for
  Sustainability. Melbourne, Australia Common
  Ground Publishing.
• Be prepared to take notes, and participate in
  discussions.