The typical physical education experience, the one that I experienced as a student, the one that I delivered in the early years of my teaching career, is often measured by standardized benchmarks: lap times, skill progressions, and fitness scores. While those have their place, focusing solely on metrics risks missing the heart of the discipline. …
Jean-Philippe Ayotte-Beaudet, Université de Sherbrooke and Felix Berrigan, Université de Sherbrooke There is a growing interest across Canada in outdoor education that is formally integrated into school. This trend has increased since COVID-19, particularly because open-air environments significantly reduced the risks of disease transmission. Outdoor education is an umbrella term that includes many approaches and …
If I only knew 31 years ago that teaching outside could, and would, transform both me and students, I would have started doing it much sooner! This was one of my “Covid 19 Silver Linings”. I teach in an Elementary School on Long Island, New York. In the past most of my teaching was done …
