Professional Development Programs

Teachers at many schools are often required to lead physical education for their class. Our Fun with Fitness professional development day provides an opportunity for teachers and school staff to develop knowledge and skills in developing the physical health and well-being of their children.

Benefits

Your "Fun with Fitness" professional development day delivers the following benefits to your teachers and your students:

Provides guidance to teachers in effective delivery of physical health and fitness.
Ideas and the understanding how to make fitness fun for children.
How to motivate children to be physically active.
How to put together a safe and effective fitness program.
Develops confidence within teachers to conduct a fun fitness session for children.
Improves teacher's knowledge and understanding of children's physiology.
Tips on medical conditions, nutrition, hydration.

Outline

Time	Activity	Outcomes
0900 - 0930	Understanding Fitness	A personal review of beliefs, values and views of health & fitness.
0930 - 1000	Fun with Fitness Facts	This session provides participants an introduction to the effective development of physically focussed games for kids. Participants will gain an understanding of the theory around physiology, children centred activities, game development.
1000 - 1015	Morning Tea
1015 - 1115	Fun with fitness outdoors	Participants will explore through action what works for kids in the realm of cardiovascular, upper and lower body strength and coordination.
1115 - 1145	Almost Anything Goes	This creative team based activity draws on the insights from previous sessions in a stimulating and challenging way. Participants will put into practice the fun with fitness lessons.
1145 - 1200	Reflections and Insights	Final reflections as to how to apply the insights drawn from the day.

We can extend this to a full day and are can tailor your program to suit your needs. All workshop participants receive a complementary workbook that contains a variety of ideas, activities and games for putting fun into fitness.

Team Building

Some of the key aspects of team building include trust, accessing individual strengths and communicating effectively. A professional development day focussed on building team based skills such as communication, creativity, process, recognition of strengths provides an opportunity for your staff to start the process of team formation necessary to achieve school outcomes. Based on around Tuckman's research into team development, your team building day uses reflective, experiential and fun activities to create an environment for your team to grow and learn together. We work closely with you to develop a program that meets your needs in this area.