The #PhysEd Show

For the past 10 years, I've used the month of May to bring my school community together through a variety of health-based programs, challenges, and advocacy pieces. I call the whole initiative "Health Month" and it honestly helped transform the way my school focused on health and wellness. Health Month is an opportunity for you to boost your program's visibility, strengthen partnerships and relati...

Here's a different kind of episode! Think of this as "Story Time with Joey". I recently got to hear my friend/mentor Artie Kamiya share a story he called " The Boy, The Rope, & The Truth ". The story touched on the lasting impact that teachers can have on the lives of the students they teach. For today's story time episode, I wanted to share a few stories from my teaching that highlighted the...

🎉 Here is my first-ever Q&A episode! After hesitating on doing one of these forever, I finally decided to dive in and give this a go. In this episode, I do my best to answer the following three questions (and shout out to the three awesome listeners who shared!): 1. What are your favourite forms of assessment? (submitted by Hector/@hrico90 from Chicago, IL) 2. What are the main skills a stude...

Not all moments in our teaching feel like big wins. Sometimes they feel like bellyflops. 🌊 In this episode, I'll be sharing a bellyflop moment from my teaching: the virtual rock-paper-scissors tournament that I organized for my students during the 2020 spring lockdown. My intention here is to help you see how - even when something feels like a total fail - our efforts can still result in lessons...

This is a pretty personal episode for me. I'll be opening up and letting you into some of the health issues that I have been living with. I'll also be sharing what I've done in order to prioritize my health and my family. You can find a transcript of this podcast here: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2021/01/18/begin-again/ Here are some important resources for anyone who may be suffering from the...

I oftentimes have to resist the urge to spend time talking about tech. I could waste hours and hours on sites like Product Hunt and YourStack where professionals share insights into the apps they include in their workflows (their tech "stacks").  That being said, it's January and I was looking for a fun way to shake the last remaining holiday vibes and get my mind back into content creation m...

In this episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast, I'll be sharing the strategy that we developed to help ensure that our students had access to engaging, fun, and safe recess experiences as they returned to school this fall in the middle of the COVID-19 global pandemic. By the end of this episode, you will be able to : Understand why recess needs to be a part of the school day at your school. Know what...

Learn more about the standards-based striking and fielding games unit that I designed for my grade 6 students in this episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast! This episode will walk you through - step-by-step - the process I use to design standards-based units for my physical education program. In it, you will learn: The SHAPE America grade-level outcomes that I built this unit around. How I determine...

Learn more about how I organized a virtual running event for my school's community during the spring lockdown of 2020. 👀 Show Notes: https://thephysicaleducator.com/2020/11/17/planning-a-virtual-running-event/ The purpose of this episiode is to provide you with an overview of how to plan, organize, and run a virtual running event that can help strengthen your school's community should your school...

Learn more about how you can use the jigsaw method - a cooperative learning strategy - to help your students feel more engaged, active, and valued in your lessons!

Learn more about you can gradually and purposefully integrate technology into your teaching in this episode of The #PhysEd Show!

Learn more about how to set clear intentions for learning in your physical education lessons in this episode of The #PhysEd Show!

Learn more about how to set effective, measurable goals for your professional growth as a physical education teacher in this episode of The #PhysEd Show!

For years now, I've wanted to have my students assess my teaching in order to help me set better goals for my professional development. This past June, in a year that involved a huge amount of personal and professional changes in my life that I feared had an negative impact on my teaching, I had my grade six class anonymously assess my teaching. Listen in to learn more about what they were asked,...

As a soon-to-be dad, I've been thinking a lot lately about how I am going to help raise my son into a physically literate individual. To learn more about physical literacy from a parent's perspective, I invited Dr. Amanda Stanec onto the show. Listen in to learn more about physical literacy, the community players who influence the development of it, and the role that parents can play to help their...

In this episode, I invited Terri Drain onto the show to share her thoughts, ideas, and experience in regards to assessment for learning. Listen in to learn more about the difference between assessment FOR learning and assessment OF learning, to hear about what assessment for learning can look like in a physical education lesson, and to figure out what steps you can be taking today in order to make...

In this very first podcast episode of The #PhysEd Show, I share one of my favourite teaching tactics: Walk & Talks! Listen in to learn how I use this tactic in my teaching and how I plan on improving the procedures surrounding it in order to create opportunities for student conversations that are both equitable and deep!