Physical Education Curriculum Design – Apr 2021

Course Overview

This comprehensive programme has been developed and tested over the past 12 months to enable existing and aspirant subject leaders of physical education to challenge and transform their PE offer to be fit for every 21st century learner in their school.

The programme brings ideas from research and practice to life through a rich variety of video clips, blog articles, low stakes quizzes and tasks. They have been expertly created to enable you to reflect on your current context and practice before sharing case study examples from a wide variety of schools to help you transform your offer.

You will be challenged to complete tasks and personalise frameworks through self-paced eLearning activities before tuning in to regular Q&A checkpoints that will support your curriculum transformation. These live Q&A sessions will be hosted via Zoom. They will enable you to interact with programme designers and your cohort of learners to exchange and challenge thinking further.

All participants will be expected to upload a resource to capture their learning and thinking at the end of some modules. In doing so, you will unlock access to a growing library of ideas to help progress and support your thinking further. For example, uploading your student friendly curriculum intent statement will enable you to see the library of visuals created by others.

Each module is fully asynchronous, meaning you can log on each week at a time that is convenient to you and we hope you will choose to join us for the live Q&A checkpoint. These live sessions are not compulsory, but we encourage full participation to maximise learning and impact from this programme.

On completion of all 12 modules, you will be invited to graduate with your cohort and awarded a certificate.

Instructors

Delivered by award-winning physical education experts from some of the UK’s leading universities.

Will Swaithes

Will Swaithes is an experienced teacher, teacher educator and leader of teaching and learning. With over 20 years’ experience in education, he is currently a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education at Birmingham City University leading the secondary PGCE programme whilst also contributing to Initial Teacher Education at several other institutions including Loughborough and Buckingham universities. Will is Education Director at PE Scholar, a Specialist Leader of Education (SLE) for Redhill Academy, previous Head of Physical Education and Achievement for Youth Sport Trust (YST), previous Assistant Head for Teaching and Learning and author of an OCR GCSE PE textbook. He achieved Advanced Skills Teacher (AST) status in 2006 and also holds a Masters in Educational Leadership. Will has a reputation for high-quality consultancy services, mentoring support and training with an ambition to ensure PE stands for Positive Experiences for all children in all schools.

Dr Liz Durden-Myers

Liz is a physical education researcher and teacher educator with over 15 years’ experience within education across the primary, secondary and higher education sectors. She is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education at the University of Gloucestershire & Bath Spa University, and Past Chair of the International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA). Liz is a qualified teacher and holds a PhD in Physical Literacy, a MA in Education, a MSc in Psychology and a BA (Hons) in Physical Education. Her research interests include Education, Physical Education, Philosophy, Health, Sport and Wellbeing. She has specific expertise in Physical Literacy, Teaching Pedagogy, Curriculum Design and Teacher Professional Development. Liz is an international speaker, passionate educator and physical activity advocate who champions the value of physical activity for life, for health, wellbeing and human flourishing.