Designing a Practical PE Curriculum for the Future
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This new course is aimed at physical education professionals and curriculum leaders with an interest in modernising and challenging traditional approaches to physical education curriculum. The Department for Education core national curriculum programme of study (2013) leaves a great deal of scope for individual interpretation. This course aims to challenge its delegates with a contemporary lens on physical education, prioritising the development of athleticism as a means to enjoy physical activity and organised team games, and the development of transferable skills for life.BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Opportunity to inwardly reflect on your own approaches to curriculum delivery
- Exemplar reflection and review of what a contemporary curriculum, being delivered now, looks like
- Assessment of opportunities and threats
- Practical workshop activities on curriculum development
- Opportunity to plan on a small-scale for lesson delivery and programmes of study
- Tools to effectively measure the success of pupil progress without expensive equipment
PROGRAMME
Curriculum Review: What does History Guide us Towards?
10.00am – 11.00am- What does your current curriculum look like?
- History of physical education: A Fundamental Right
- How has the history of the subject impacted programmes of study?
- Where do you see your experience, historically and currently?
- What should physical education be for pupils?
A Review of Current Research Models
11.00am – 11.30am- What issues are presented by the Games model
- Teaching Games for Understanding: A critique
- A contemporary approach: A Review of Research-led Models
- Long-Term Athlete Development model
- Youth Physical Development model
Break
11.30 – 11.45amWhat Does it Look Like?
11.45am – 12:45pm- Review of a curriculum which places research-led models of physical development at its heart
- How does this challenge the current curriculum as you experience it?
- What opportunities are presented?
- Practical workshop: accommodate into a lesson on your programme of study
- Reflection on the process
Lunch
12.45 – 1.45pmWhat about Assessment? And of What?
1.45pm – 2.30pm- How is progress currently assessed?
- Why do we assess progress: what does OfSted say?
- What are your values in physical education: what are the goals?
- Transferable skills: from buzz-phrase to reality
- How can we combine these for a meaningful approach to assessment?
Break
2.30 – 2.45pmPlanning Workshop
2.45pm – 3.45pm- Delegates will split into groups of similar current experience
- Design a programme of study in one area
- Consider approaches to delivery and assessment
- Present back to the group
- Review and reflect
- Personal reflection: actions for the future
Depart
3.45pm
Leadership - Code: T0026
Designing a Practical PE Curriculum for the Future
COURSE LEADER
Marcus Sharrad is the Director of Coaching & Mentoring and Head of Exercise & Sport Sciences at Marlborough College, where he has worked since 2015-16, leading the department since 2016-17. During his time as Head of Department Marcus has overseen the redevelopment of the core physical education curriculum, aligning pupil experiences with research-driven functional movement and athletic development principles.
In addition, placing a heavy strategic focus on the academic credentials of sport sciences at GCSE and A Level has seen pupil uptake double, with enhanced grade profiles to match. Marcus is an Institute of Leadership & Management qualified professional coach, which, along with Level 3 Talented Athlete Lifestyle Support (TALS) qualification, sees him work with aspiring and current elite athletes.