Log onto health teacher central at any moment and you can expect to see the following: “I need a hands on lesson about _______”. Teachers do this with great intentions, hoping to foster a fun lesson or activity that gets students moving and learning in a way that may be atypical for standard health education …
Are you looking forward to the holidays? How about spring break or the summer or simply Fridays? Or how about just coffee? What about retirement? Do you know teachers that have their retirement date worked out to the year, month, week, day and depending on how things are going in a particular movement, they may …
Life moves fast. Between work, school, responsibilities, and the endless to-do lists, it's easy to get caught up in the serious side of life. But what if I told you that play - yes, play - is one of the most powerful tools for building resilience, improving mental and physical wellbeing, and fostering deep connections …
Almost all I think about these days is class culture, and I know I am not alone. For me, this means a culture that builds trust, embraces confusion, encourages attention and sparks curiosity and joy, After 30+ years as a high school English teacher, creating and sustaining this culture is simultaneously more difficult and more …
A whistle stop tour of happiness and why we should all plan for it Happiness. What value do we place on it within our lessons? How often do we place it foremost in our planning when we’re developing our plans, our programmes or our curriculums? It's the age old question of whether our pupils need …
Joy. Providing students with meaningful experiences during physical education it's been a goal of mine this year. I have been learning, reading, and trying different ways to do that for the past few years, and one of the things that stuck out to me was to bring joyful experiences. I would like to thank the …
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What shared memories will you build during this time of such change to our regular lives? When we see workplaces open, schools resume and fewer people rushing to buy toilet paper, what might we hang onto and make part of the new ‘normal’? What will we be truly grateful for and what might we just …
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