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The #PhysEd Show

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The #PhysEd Show is a physical education podcast. Listeners can expect to be inspired by innovative ideas and resources for their teaching, amazing guest interviews, and other fun segments that have been designed to light a fire in every physical educator's belly! Hosted by Joey Feith, founder of ThePhysicalEducator.com.

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Episodes

  1. Practical Classroom Management Systems for Busy PE Teachers

    ⚙️ In this episode, I share the classroom management systems that transformed my teaching from overwhelming to energizing. From the Full Value Contract to Treasure Time, I'll show you how treating daily frustrations as pedagogical problems helped me reduce friction, save energy, and rediscover…

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  2. AI for PE Teachers (Part One)

    🤖 The AI revolution is well-underway and, I don't know about you, I've been feeling a little overwhelmed by it all! In this first part of a two-episode series, we'll unpack some of the key terms around AI and explore the idea of how to use artificial intelligence as a co-pilot in your teaching.…

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  3. The Joy Of Going Back To School

    🥳 Ok, I get that not everyone feels super excited about going back to school. That said, after three years of being away from teaching, I can't wait to start the latest chapter in my teaching career! In this episode, I'll share the four things that have me feeling fired up about getting back…

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  4. The Fear Of Going Back To School

    😨 In this episode, I'm sharing some exciting news and talking about some of the fears teachers experience as we head back to school. 🎓 Become a #PhysEdU Community Member! #PhysEdU is the professional growth community that I've launched for physical educators earlier this year. Its purpose is to...

  5. Middle School Fitness | A Lesson Walkthrough

    💪 In this episode, I'm trying something new! Let me walk you through a lesson that I recently designed and delivered at a local middle school. The lesson kicked off the students' fitness unit and focused on helping them explore the health-related components of fitness in a way that did not…

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  6. Skateboarding in Physical Education

    🛹 Earlier this spring, I got to check one of my goals off of my teaching bucket list. For years, I've dreamed of teaching a skateboarding unit as part of my physical education program. Well, after several twists and turns, I finally managed to make that dream come true! In this episode, I'll…

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  7. Teaching From The Heart with Kyle Bragg

    ❤️ Kyle Bragg is a celebrated physical educator out of Scottsdale, Arizona. If you follow the #physed hashtag on Twitter, then there is no doubt that you have caught glimpses into Kyle's teaching already. Kyle does an incredible job of sharing best practices and insights from his teaching, and...

  8. Better Game Design: Structuring Games to Support Student Learning in Physical Education

    ▶️ Games play an important role within physical education programs. That said, we need to ensure that we are designing games so that they are aligned to student learning targets and support our students' learning in PE. In this episode, I'll be sharing one game design tactic that I love to use to...

  9. How To Support Our Students' Sense of Belonging

    🤝 School belonging is linked to improvements in academic achievement, higher self-reported levels of happiness, and fewer occurrences of violence and bullying in schools. In this episode of The #PhysEd Show, we'll take a deep dive into the world of belonging, make sense of the factors that...

  10. The Scenic Route To Joyful Teaching with Barb Borden

    ✨ Every now and then, you meet someone who reminds you how much fun it is to have fun while you teach. I've had the opportunity to connect with Barb Borden over the years and gain a window into her teaching through her Twitter presence. Without a doubt, Barb's teaching brings so much joy…

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  11. Talking Tech in Physical Education | #PEChat Panels

    🎓 Become a #PhysEdU Community Member! #PhysEdU is the professional growth community that I've launched for physical educators earlier this year. It's purpose is to help you unlock and grow your potential to be an outstanding physical educator! Community members enjoy benefits such as exclusive...

  12. #PEChat Radio Hour: Unified Physical Education w/ Jen Heebink (2022 SHAPE America National PE Teacher of the Year)

    ♿️ Every child, regardless of ability, deserves to have access to effective, meaningful physical education experiences. However, many educators struggle with how to design physical education lessons that allow students with disabilities to engage in positive ways both in the learning and with…

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  13. Lesson Walkthrough: An Outcomes-Based Grade 6 Invasion Games Lesson

    👀 Understanding how to align lessons to curriculum outcomes not only helps teachers maximize the impact of their instruction, it also helps them approach their teaching with as much confidence and clarity as possible! In this episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast, I'm going to walk you through a...

  14. Rest Like A Rockstar: Creating The Conditions To Finding Momentum In Your Teaching

    🏄‍♂️ Momentum is one of the absolute best feelings we can experience as teachers. It allows us to get more done, feel that we're on top of all of our tasks, and bring new and exciting ideas to our teaching. However, as teachers, we tend to be horrible at creating the conditions required to...

  15. Elyse Loughlin | Equity, Social Justice, Physical Education, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    Elyse Loughlin is a physical education teacher currently teaching in upstate New York. In addition to teaching Elyse is an OPEN National Trainer. She has presented at local, state, and national conferences covering everything from SLOs and GLOs to the active role physical education and health...

  16. Andy Vasily: Supporting Student Autonomy In Physical Education

    Andy Vasily is the host of The Run Your Life Podcast, a celebrated instructional coach, an incredible physical education, and one of my good friends. Andy's teaching has had a huge impact on the way I think about keeping students at the centre of their learning experiences. In today's episode, we...

  17. Co-Constructing Success Criteria In Physical Education

    🎯 Using success criteria in your teaching is a high-leverage practice that has a significant effect on student learning. By building success criteria in partnership with your students, you can help increase student ownership, motivation, and engagement. That said, how can we bring this practice...

  18. #PEChat Radio Hour: How To Support A Growth Mindset In Physical Education

    Here is the recording from our latest #PEChat Radio Hour! For this episode, #PEChat host Elyse Loughlin interviews Joey Feith (that's me!) on Twitter Spaces. This episode focuses on what physical educators can do to help support the development of a growth mindset within their students. In the...

  19. Unpacking Student Motivation In Physical Education

    “If you don’t do the work, then you don’t get the grade.” The saddest part about that cringe-worthy sentence is that I’ve said it to students before. Early on in my career, I had no idea how to motivate students in my teaching. I’d do my best to plan fun lessons, but I’d resort to a “carrots and...

  20. What Physical Educators Can Learn From Norway’s Olympic Success.

    The 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing are underway and - as I write this - Norway is at the top of the medal standings. Again. Norway is a bit of an anomaly: it's a relatively small country at 5.3 million people (which ranks it #119 in the world based on population size), yet somehow it is an...

  21. Skills, Knowledge, and Understanding in Physical Education

    Physical literacy is the foundation of physical education. As physical educators, it is our job to nurture our students’ physical literacy through meaningful, effective learning experiences. However, there is a common mistake that many PE teachers make that can severely hamper the impact of their...

  22. #PEChat Radio Hour: Adventure Education with Mark Friedrich

    Here is the recording from our latest #PEChat Radio Hour! For this episode, I connected with Mark Friedrich on Twitter Spaces. Mark Friedrich is an Adventure Education and Health Education teacher at Millburn High School in Millburn, New Jersey. Mark has been a member of Millburn's Health & PE...

  23. #PEChat Radio Hour: Social & Emotional Learning with Karl Mercuri

    Here is the recording from our first-ever #PEChat Radio Hour! For this episode, I connected with Karl Mercuri on Twitter Spaces. Karl Mercuri is the Social and Emotional Learning Coordinator at The Priory School and a private SEL consultant across schools here in the Greater Montreal area....

  24. Our First #PhysEd Pub PD: A #PEChat Recap

    This is a recap of our latest #pechat that took place on Twitter Spaces! For this #pechat, we hosted a #PhysEd Pub PD: a Space where physical education teachers get to hang out, take turns sharing ideas, and learning from each other. Shout out to all of the awesome teachers who stepped up and...

  25. The Interplanetary Games | My Field Day Guide

    The school year is coming to an end. If you're an elementary school teacher, that means that Field Day season is about to begin! Having taught elementary school physical education for the past ten years, I've had the responsibility of planning a whole-school Field Day event each school year....

  26. Health Month - Bringing Your School Community Together Through Health

    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...

  27. The Seeds We Sow: Our Teaching Beyond Teaching

    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...

  28. Assessment, Program Goals, & Colleagues: My First Listener Q&A!

    🎉 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...

  29. Embracing Bellyflops: My Virtual Rock-Paper-Scissors Tournament!

    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…

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  30. Begin Again

    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:...

  31. My 2020 Tech Stack

    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…

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  32. Rescuing Recess: Helping Recess Thrive In A Global Pandemic

    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...

  33. My Standards-Based Striking & Fielding Games Unit!

    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…

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  34. The Dragon Run: Organizing A Virtual Community Running Event

    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,...

  35. Jigsaw Learning in Physical Education

    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!

  36. The SAMR Model

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

  37. Teaching With Intention

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

  38. Setting Professional Growth Goals

    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!

  39. Student Feedback In Physical Education

    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…

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  40. Physical Literacy: A Parent's Perspective w/ Amanda Stanec

    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...

  41. Assessment For Learning w/ Terri Drain

    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…

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  42. Walk & Talks In Physical Education

    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...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The #PhysEd Show is a physical education podcast. Listeners can expect to be inspired by innovative ideas and resources for their teaching, amazing guest interviews, and other fun segments that have been designed to light a fire in every physical educator's belly! Hosted by Joey Feith, founder of ThePhysicalEducator.com.

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