Sessions
New Solutions to Increasing Individual Physical Activity Levels at School and at Home
Presenter: Mike Heppert, NewWayFitness
Description: Schools across Virginia are currently facing tremendous pressure to provide more effective solutions to the current childhood obesity crisis. We will discuss new and innovative programs designed to increase student physical activity levels at school without major cost increases while offering parents an optional home based program designed to increase the physical activity levels of the entire family.
Emphasis will be placed on leveraging 21st century goals, methods, and the effective use of technology.
Character Development and its Relationship to Physical Activity Begins at an Early Age
Presenter: Marge Slattery, James Madison University
Description: Character Development and its relationship to physical activity will be discussed. It will be shown that character development as initiated through play must begin at an early age. However, in order for teachers to initiate activities to promote such pro-social behavior, each teacher must first examine their personal beliefs and values. Various methods will be utilized that should enhance the attendees knowledge of pro-social behaviors that may be instilled into their everyday instruction techniques.
Using Digital Video to Increase Acquisition of Psychomotor Skills
Presenter: Michael Moore, Radford University and April Moore, Dublin Elementary
Description: The new millennium students of the 21st century or Millennials as they are called are accustomed to technology, being on the go, multitasking and instant gratification. Students at all levels have different learning styles and comprehend information at varying rates.
If digital video of psychomotor skills were in a downloadable format in which students could view on the go and accessible 24-7 at the leisure of the student, this may increase learning and retention of material.
This presentation will show various psychomotor digital video examples, discuss the process of capturing a psychomotor skill, editing, uploading and downloading digital video to a web page, server or iTunes U. So bring your laptops and IDEAS of psychomotor skills you would like to capture via digital video.
Teaching Games for Understanding: Playing short-sided games with a purpose
Presenters: Sandy Brownscombe, Eastern Mennonite University, and Pam Mason, Skyline Middle School and HPE Coordinator for Harrisonburg City Public Schools
Description: Participants will receive an overview of the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGFU) model and sample lesson ideas focusing on invasion and net games. TGFU lessons include small-sided games (at the beginning and end), tactical awareness questions, and skill practice. In TGFU games are divided into four categories: Invasion, Net/Wall, Striking/Fielding, and Target Games.
Do your kids know what you think they know?
Presenter: Ron Trainum, Toano Middle School
Description: How do you know if your students are 'getting it?' Do you find you want to help students develop their level of skill but can't always give them the attention they need. In this session, we'll talk about how teachers can effectively assess student performance and provide quality feedback in an easy, simple way.
How to make Fitness Portfolios work at the Secondary
Presenter: Ron Trainum, Toano Middle School, and Renee Fiege, Riverbend High School Description: This presentation will outline how to create, implement, and assess fitness portfolios for middle and high school students. We will discuss how to create a format to fit the school needs, how to implement it into the gym and health room, and how to create assessments for students work. At the end of the session will allow time for participants to discuss what they would want to include in their portfolios and how they could start to implement it in their school.
Tips and Strategies for Teaching Self-contained Adapted Physical Education
Presenters: Andrea Taliaferro, West Virginia University, and Amanda Campbell, Bridgewater College
Description: Many physical education teachers are responsible for teaching self-contained Adapted Physical Education and face a number of challenges in deciding how to best structure their class. This session will address these challenges by sharing two approaches to teaching self-contained Adapted Physical Education classes. Discussion will focus on the benefits of each approach, suggestions for organizing your class, how to determine what to teach, and strategies for incorporating individual IEP goals into your lessons.
APE Roundtable - We are all in this together!
Presenter: Thomas E. Moran, James Madison University, and Andrea Taliaferro, West Virginia University
Description: This roundtable is meant to allow participants to reflect on the previous session (Ability Only - No Disability Here!) and discuss student behavior, instructor behavior, as well as strategies used. It will also allow time for everyone to share issues they may have and offer suggestions that will help each of us better meet the needs of our diverse students and classes.
Abilities Only - No Disability Here!!
Presenters: Thomas E. Moran, James Madison University, and Tim Davis, SUNY Cortland
Description: Maximizing Ability? Who Cares about Disability!
This activity-based session will have children with and without disabilities from the Harrisonburg area showcasing their talents. Students enrolled in KIN 680 will highlight activities and various instructional strategies they used and developed that will allow everyone to be successful, even the teacher!
Fill your Adapted Toolbox
Presenters: Thomas E. Moran, James Madison University, and Tim Davis, SUNY Cortland
Description: Need to arm yourself with additional of strategies to include children with disabilities in your GPE settings? Need strategies to meet the variety of students in your APE class? This hands on session will give you strategies and useful "tools" for all levels and domains! [Detailed Description]
Yoga 4 Classrooms
Presenter: Helen A. Maxwell, Yoga 4 Classrooms
Description: Yoga 4 Classrooms empowers students and educators to create positive, peaceful, productive classrooms that support exceptional learning and a lifetime of health and wellness. Y4C includes a mix of classroom-appropriate yoga postures, brain boosting movements, breath exercises, visualizations, mindfulness activities and community-building games. Participants will learn about the benefits of yoga and mindfulness education in the classroom setting through hands-on learning.
Beyond These Walls: Teaching Life Skills Through Physical Education and Sport
Presenter: Sarah Carson, James Madison University
Description: When structured appropriately, physical activity and sport are effective means through which life lessons such as responsibility taking, managing emotions, and problem solving can be learned and practiced. Through lecture and small group discussions and activities, this presentation will review the developmental processes involved in as well as the strategies educators and coaches can use to facilitate the learning of transferrable life skills in their students and athletes.
PE Fit in Action...helping kids get fit!
Presenter: Betty Kern, PE Fit
Description: Set your students on a path to wellness and physical fitness with the PE Fit Nutrition & Activity Programs. Make an impact on student's lifestyle habits with nutrition & fitness lessons that encourage change through small steps. Level the playing field in Physical Education by incorporating fun fitness activities that all students enjoy.
Encourage student activity outside of the school day through challenge competitions. Hear how the PE Fit Programs have changes the lives of thousands of kids and teens. Learn how PE Fit can help your school incorporate programs to improve students' physical fitness and lifestyle
habits.
PE Fit Yoga for Physical Education & Beyond
Presenter: Betty Kern, PE Fit
Description: Have you thought about doing yoga with your PE students but not sure where to start? Learn strategies for implementing yoga into warm-up & cool down activities, as activity breaks and as a full Physical Education class. Experience yoga class formats used successfully at elementary, middle school and high school levels. Take home tips and ideas for incorporating yoga into your classes.
Motivating Teen Girls with a Personalized Fitness Program
Presenter: Betty Kern, PE Fit
Description: Reach out to the non-athletic/overweight girls who don't enjoy physical activity, exercise or physical education class.
Make a difference in the lives of these girls by teaching them nutrition and fitness basics, health issues important to women and fun fitness activities in an environment that is non-competitive and encouraging. Learn strategies to help boost the confidence, self-esteem, fitness level and health of teen girls. Use the information you learn as a spring board to develop a girls program at your school.
Appropriate and Inappropriate Practices within Secondary Physical Education
Presenters: Dr. Susan Nye, James Madison University, and B.J. Santos, Murray High School
Description: A developmentally appropriate physical education program accommodates a variety of individual characteristics such as developmental status, previous movement experiences, fitness and skill levels, body size, and age. Attendees will participate in appropriate activities and discuss the ramifications when a "gym teacher" engages in inappropriate practices.
Do your students understand pace or intensity?
Presenter: Dr. Susan Nye, James Madison University
Description: The rate of perceived exertion scale (RPE) is a subjective measure that can individualize physical activity by helping students listen to their heart rate, breathing or respiration rate, and body responses to effectively measure their intensity while participating in exercise. Attendees will participate in health-related fitness games while using the RPE scale.
Inclusion, Is It Part of Your Elementary PE Program?
Presenters: Ann Tierney, Chesterfield County Public Schools, and Tina Andes, Special Olympics of Virginia
Description: Inclusion, Is It Part of Your Elementary PE Program? Come and learn about how you can change the culture in your school through Project UNIFY, a grant from the Department of Education, Special Olympics. Promote inclusion while developing skills and physical activity for a lifetime!
New School Health: Making Middle School Health Interactive and Meaningful
Presenters: Mandee Madden, Frederick County Middle School, Michele Holmes, Jameswood Middle School, and Bonnie Kovatch, Aylor Middle School
Description: The focus of this session is to present interactive health ideas. We will be presenting health lessons that integrate technology, movement, and projects to engage student learning. This presentation focuses on middle school health lessons, but can be adapted for high school health as well. Our goal is to provide other health educators with resources to make teaching health meaningful and exciting for the teacher and the students.
Anthem Get Active Get Fit School Challenge Hosted by Radio Disney
Presenters: Alison Spencer, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Lauren Holtz, Radio Disney, and Rhonda Keith, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Description: This presentation explains the Anthem Get Active Get Fit School Challenge hosted by Radio Disney for all elementary schools in Virginia. It includes a description of the program and how the schools can participate. We will also have a raffle with door prizes.
Field Days and MORE!
Presenter: Janet Kennedy, Sedgefield Elementary School
Description: A plethora of information on Field Days and Fitness Nights, including: Be a Star - Shine on Field Day!, Banking on Fitness, "Egg"cellent Fitness Find, Balance your Fitness and Dance for Fitness. Attendees will get examples of field day and fitness night guidelines, maps, procedures, activities, brochures, flyers, field day cards, and field day ideas.
Ballroom Dance, Oh, Yes You Can!
Presenter: Janet Kennedy, Sedgefield Elementary School
Description: Introductory Activities for easing students into rhythmic movement and dance, including ballroom dance in the elementary school. Activities include: Connect and Disconnect, Connector, Roping Them In, Skip and Scatter, Teacher Rhythm from A-Z, Swing dance and Cha Cha.
Wii Flip for Technology!
Presenters: Mandee Madden, Frederick County Middle School, Michele Holmes, James Wood Middle School, and Bonnie Kovatch, Aylor Middle School
Description: As the use of technology in health and physical education becomes increasingly popular, more tools are becoming available to increase learning. In this hands-on presentation, participants will have the opportunity to participate in a Flip-camera scavenger hunt, use cameras for self and peer assessments, try out fitness games for Nintendo Wii, and learn how flip cameras, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Smart software can be used to enhance health lessons.
Hip Heart Program: Beating the "Obesity Crisis" through Hip Hop Dance
Presenter: Fred Vassallo, Hip Heart Program
Description: Hip Heart Programs are national, highly successful School Programs (K-12): School Assemblies, In-school Workshops, and After-School Programs that impact, equip and empower kids to stay physically fit through Hip Hop Dance.
Get Active to Get Equipment Fundraising Program
Presenter: Andy Tupy, Gopher Sport
Description: FINALLY, a fundraising program that raises money for your PE program by encouraging kids to be more active! [Detailed Description]
Fuel Up to Play 60
Presenter: Kristin Brittle
Description: FUTP60 ? Your Wellness Solution
The Fuel Up To Play 60 program is a youth-led movement sweeping the nation with the star power of the NFL and sound nutrition science of the National Dairy Council & USDA. You can tailor this web-based program for the needs at your school and receive technical assistance from your local dairy council representative. Come find out how any K-12 school can leverage this powerful brand and earn grants up to $4,000 to work on wellness in your school!
Online Health & Physical Education Programs
Presenter: Mark Brandenburger, OmniCourse.com, LLC
Description: OmniCourse.com is a Virginia-based company which offers consulting, design, and implementation of Online Health & Physical Education Programs. This Round Table Discussion, led by VA certfied teachers, would review the NASPE Online HPE Position Statement, discuss current programs in VA, and offer programs. [Panel representatives would include Tidewater, NOVA, and Central VA.] OmniCourse.com would give-away a one-year course package (1 teacher, 20 students) to an applying attendee ($1500 value).
QuickStart Tennis: Adding Tennis in PE
Presenters: Shell Wood, USTA/Virginia Tennis, and Alex Chan, USTA/Virginia Tennis
Description: Add the USTA QuickStart tennis format to your physical education class! An interactive session where you will get hands-on experience with the USTA QuickStart tennis format and equipment specially designed for kids 10 & under. It?s all about play, getting children involved and allowing them to experience the great game of tennis.
Learn more about what USTA can do for your school including free in-service training and free equipment!
SOL Recess Sampler
Presenters: Jennifer Barnes, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame & Museum, and Sarah Jackson, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame & Museum
Description: Museum Education staff will lead you in Math & Science SOL/PE style games, activities and lessons to use in the gym, classroom, and/or at recess time using little to no specialized equipment.
A Minute to Win It!
Presenter: John L. Smith, Ho-Ho-Kus Public School, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, 1989 NASPE National Teacher of the Year
Description: The Minute to Win It activities were developed to challenge the participants with individual and team physical skill challenges while trying to complete each of the tasks in the minute time frame. There is progression from teams competing against the clock for an individual score in the minute in different challenges, to teams competing in the same task and finally all teams competing in one similar task. [Detailed Description]
Small Sided, Short Time Games, 3 on 3 and 4 on 4
Presenter: John L. Smith, Ho-Ho-Kus Public School, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
Description: This very active session will have participants involved in small-sided games with high-energy expenditure, total team involvement, tactical decision-making and opportunities to use skill and strategies. Small-sided games offer teachers and students time to develop team strategy meetings, fast restarts, offense and defense, and game skills. This is not your typical 3 on 3 all play at once games. These are the NJ Lake Conference evening event specials. The highlight of each day played at midnight in NJ. Games to be offered: Tchoukball, Team Handball, Volleyball, Floor Hockey, Soccer
Parachute Central
Presenter: John L. Smith, Ho-Ho-Kus Public School, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
Description: Parachute Central is a full activity participation session for early childhood through upper elementary physical education teachers, classroom teachers, recreational specialists and movement educators. This session includes:
- Basic parachute movement and manipulative skills
- Class Parachute activities
- Class organization
- Parachute safety
- Games with parachutes
- Rhythmical Activities with Parachutes
- Creative and Innovative Parachutes
During this session, participants will perform parachute manipulatives including; shakes, ripples, waves, whirlpools, lifting, pulling and stretching. Locomotor movements performed will include; walking, galloping, skipping and crawling. Games will include; Jaws, Roller Ball, Digestion, Mini-Golf (Swiss Cheese) and Space Traveler (Planetary).
Health Activities for High School
Presenter: B.J. Santos, Murray High School
Description: Hands on activities designed increase student engagement in content delivery and assessment for learning and of learning.
Secondary Circuit Training I – Strength/Aerobic Capacity Intervals
Presenter: B.J. Santos, Murray High School
Description: Maximize fitness results and equipment variety by setting up circuit training. Alternating muscular endurance and strength activities with aerobic training allows deconditioned students to experience success. Adding intensity with anaerobic thresholds will challenge the more fit students.
PE Yoga
Presenter: B.J. Santos, Murray High School
Description: Use basic yoga postures separately or combined in a practice to increase strength and flexibility.
Secondary Circuit Training II – Core, Balance, and Flexibility
Presenter: B.J. Santos, Murray High School
Description: Maximize fitness results and equipment variety by setting up circuit training. Target the components of core strength, balance and flexibility in a physically challenging circuit.
