Tip of the Week HPE – archive

Tip of the Week HPE – archive

Each week of the Victorian school term, ACHPER Victoria provides our health and physical education (HPE) community with a ‘Tip of the Week HPE’. These tips sent via direct email and across social media are designed to save time and provide innovative ideas to help teachers teach and students learn.

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• Most recent…
  TOTW #162: Using assessment data and reflections to inform future curriculum planning
  TOTW #161: Teaching locomotion in PE (F-10)
  TOTW #160: Inclusion in physical education (PE)
  TOTW #159: How to use 2021 end of year VCE exams to prepare for 2022
  TOTW #158: Effective implementation of digital technology in Physical Education (PE)
• Professional Knowledge – Curriculum Planning
  Using assessment data and reflections to inform future curriculum planning
  How to use 2021 end of year VCE exams to prepare for 2022
  Contributing to healthy and active communities in your HPE program
  Aboriginal perspectives in PE – traditional ways of new doing
  Utilising the ACHPER Victoria Curriculum Support Charts
  Students returning to school: why might outdoor learning be a good option?
  Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in HPE
  Face to face or remote teaching – how can we ensure purpose in both?
  Working within the Victorian Curriculum bands
  Where is LLPA/HBPA in your Curriculum?
  Outdoor education: responding to place
  Fitness assessment practices
  Planning for 2021!
  Thematic approaches to health-related PA focus areas
  Planning a Year 9/10 sport science curriculum
  Student interests
  What does ‘Continuity of Learning’ mean in the context of remote learning?
  HPE Curriculum Planning – a time to reflect and refine
  Developing health and wellbeing from home
  F-10 at Home: Teaching and assessment
  VCE at Home: Teaching and assessment
  Physical Education – Planning for remote learning
  Planning your Game Sense Unit
  Getting off to a fast start in 2020!
  Reflecting on 2019, looking towards 2020
  Introducing NEW ACHPER Victoria Planning Templates!
  Physical Literacy and the Health & Physical Education curriculum
  Unpacking content descriptions
  English as an additional language (EAL) in PE
  Free ICT tools and tips for HPE teachers
  What is your HPE program philosophy?
  Looking towards 2019
  #ACHPERVIC18 conference reflecting
  Reflecting and reviewing on your HPE program
  How to define Health and Physical Education (HPE) program intentions (F-10)
  #NOTLIMITED: Inquiry-based curriculum design (F-10)
  Using a thematic approach to structure your curriculum (F-10)
  Autism inclusion in PE
  VCAA information and resources (F-10, VCE)
  Teaching, assessing, mapping and integrating the ‘Personal, Social & Community Health’ strand (F-6)
  Swimming and Water Safety (F-10)
  Utilising ‘Personal, Social & Community Health’ and ‘Movement & Physical Activity’ Charts (F-10)
  Planning for the year ahead (F-6)
• Professional Knowledge – Physical Education
  Teaching locomotion in PE (F-10)
  Inclusion in physical education (PE)
  Effective implementation of digital technology in Physical Education (PE)
  Exploring target games with a Game Sense approach
  Aboriginal perspectives in PE – traditional ways of new doing
  A Paralympic Games like no other!
  Maximising engagement with a game sense approach to striking and fielding games
  Emotional literacy in Primary Physical Education (PE)
  Utilising student voice to improve learning outcomes in HPE
  A look at Invasion Games in physical education
  Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) – Knowing the Sequence/a>
  A look at net/wall games in physical education
  Self-determination theory and physical education
  New to Game Sense? Introducing the main concepts
  Developing rubrics for assessment in PE
  Physical Education Refocussed
  Game Sense: What’s a GPAI?
  Game Sense: Pedagogical Principles
  Expanding your approaches to teaching PE
  Fundamental locomotor skills
  Small-sided invasion game idea
  A focus on balance
  Health-based Physical Education
  Striking skills: from introduction to application
  How to use instant activities to effectively start your lesson
  Revising thematics using a net / wall example
  Vertical jump: from introduction to application
  Teaching base running: simple to complex
  Are all FMS created equal?
  Including target games / sports in your curriculum
  Using small-sided games in PE classes (F-10)
  Striking and fielding games (3-10)
  Rhythmic and expressive movement activities in PE (F-10)
  Developing students’ knowledge of the importance of physical activity to their health and wellbeing (F-10)
  Teaching Fundamental Movement Skills (F-6)
  Group energisers (5-10)
  Net / wall game ideas (2-10)
  Invasion game ideas (3-10)
• Professional Knowledge – Health Education
  Kids co-designing healthy places
  Positive coping strategies for students
  Food for Health
  Developing students’ knowledge of the importance of physical activity to their health and wellbeing (F-10)
  Teaching mental health
  Respectful Relationships & Health (F-10)
  First Aid (7-10)
• Professional Knowledge – VCE
  How to use 2021 end of year VCE exams to prepare for 2022
  Preparing for VCE Exams
  Road to Zero – bringing health promotion to life in VCE HHD
  VCE – reflecting at the half-way point
  Assessment literacy in VCE
  VCE teaching and assessment tips for remote learning
  Improving written responses in VCE
  Teaching students to effectively answer questions
  Developing high quality SACs (VCE, 7-10)
• Professional Knowledge – Models-based Practices (MBP)
  High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS) – differentiated teaching
  Pedagogical models – activist approaches in HPE
  Models-based practices: Cooperative Learning (CL)
  Models-based practices: Sport Education
  Constraints-based approaches to teaching Physical Education
  Teaching Personal & Social Responsibility (TPSR)
  Creative Physical Education (CPE)
  Models-based Practices [VIDEO]
  Using a thematic approach to structure your curriculum (F-10)
• Professional Engagement
  Reflecting on six weeks teaching at home
  Working with external providers
  HPE Day 2019 and the Physical Literacy Schools Framework
  Focusing on professional engagement
  Tips for graduate teachers
  Transform-Us! Victorian primary students on the move
  TOTW feedback!
  VicHealth’s Walk to School 2018
  FoodChecker: empowering Victorian schools to make healthy choices (F-10)
  Get planning for HPE Day 2018! (F-10)
  Tips for teacher wellbeing
  Premier’s Active April
  Eating Disorder Awareness Week (F-10)
• Professional Practice – Assessment
  Using assessment data and reflections to inform future curriculum planning
  Developing rubrics for assessment in PE
  One approach to assessment of Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)?
  Assessment and assessment planning
  Formative assessment
  Teaching, assessing, mapping and integrating the ‘Personal, Social & Community Health’ strand (F-6)
  Assessment and evaluation in Physical Education
  Planning for explicit outcomes
  Using Semester 1 assessment data to guide Semester 2 planning (F-10)
• Professional Practice – Effective Teaching Skills
  Inclusion in physical education (PE)
  Effective implementation of digital technology in Physical Education (PE)
  High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS) – differentiated teaching
  Could the Olympics facilitate innovation in our Health and Physical Education (HPE) programs?
  Time to learn – focusing your time
  Girls and Physical Activity – the role of schools and HPE
  How do you determine success in your classroom and daily work?
  Considering your professional practice (task presentation)
  Feedback
  A new year…a new beginning!
  We made it to the end!
  Active Schools, Active Kids & Active Communities
  Returning to school in Term 4
  Understanding your values and beliefs in physical education
  Design thinking – what does this look like in school settings?
  The good, the bad and the ugly of remote learning
  Tips for clear communication using video
  Enhancing your teaching – promoting positive engagement
  Flipped learning
  Physical activity – teacher and student health and wellbeing
  Interpreting DET requirements for PE
  Returning to school
  What is influencing your expectations?
  Teaching HPE at home
  COVID-19 Special Edition: Planning at-home HPE lessons
  Building a positive physical education environment
  Understanding the AFFECTIVE in Health & Physical Education
  Effective teaching: developing the content
  Facilitating intrinsic motivation in students
  Formative assessment
  Teaching students to effectively answer questions
  Planning for explicit outcomes
  Free ICT tools and tips for HPE teachers
  Group energisers (5-10)
  Effective teaching: evaluating and reflecting
  Creating and building a positive class environment
  English as an additional language (EAL) in PE
  Teaching using stations
  High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS) – multiple exposures
  Teaching values in your HPE classes
  Incorporating student voice
  Autism inclusion in PE
  Using growth mindset language in HPE
  Effective feedback in Physical Education (F-10)
  SMART goals (F-10)
  Forming teams (F-10)
  ICT tools for PE (F-10)
  Fitness testing or fitness teaching? (5-10)
  Building relationships and establishing procedures with new classes (F-10)
• Professional Practice – Instructional Styles
  A Paralympic Games like no other!
  TOTW turns 100!
  Instructional styles – reciprocal teaching
  Introduction to student-centred instructional teaching styles
  What is your instructional style? 

Please get in touch for further information. If you have a topic you’d like to learn more about, or a tip you’d like to contribute, feel free to email it through to a member of our PL team via achper@achper.vic.edu.au