Physical Education Teachers

1. The background – wide information about sport disciplines in the context of sports practised at school (PE lessons and extracurricular activities)

The first step provides background information on sports and games in the school context, as they are practised during PE classes or extracurricular activities. The main aim of this step is to raise teachers’ awareness about a wide range of sports and games, traditional or recent, which are played in Europe. It provides useful information collected through discussions and interviews with teachers, parents and students from a range of schools: mainstream schools, special schools or inclusive schools. Investigations also take into consideration students’ preferences in terms of sports as opposed to school reality, what schools have on offer. PE teachers will find interesting information from web search or European project findings, also available on websites.

Learning Objective

The learning objective of this step is to raise teachers’ awareness about a wide range of sports and games, traditional or recent, which are played in Europe.

Online Resources

• Recall: Games of the Past – Sports for Today Project EAC/S03/2013/057Beneficiary: The Association For International Sport for All (TAFISA), based in Germany Partners from 9 Member States represented in the network: DE, FI, FR, HU, IE, IT, LU, PL, PT. 40 traditional sports and games that are suitable to be reintroduced to children and youth have been collected from all over Europe and feed an online TSG database that is open to TAFISA members and the public. The research will continue and next steps include the collection of TSG from other continents.
• European Medieval Sports and Street Games Network (Ga.M.E.S.Net)" Project EAC/S03/2013/046Development of European cultural diversity trough the promotion and protection of the traditional sports and games from 8 countries represented in the network: BG, CZ, DE, ES, FR, IT, MT, PT.
• The Ga.M.E.S.Net projectThe project originates from the desire to exchange information and good practice and to compare the models /standards of good practice regarding the awareness and promotion of the traditional sports and games among European subjects and entities at various levels. It focuses in particular on the historical and cultural common origins of the traditional sports and games in Europe, representing a fundamental part of the intangible territorial heritage and an important symbol of the cultural diversity of our societies.
• Daily physical activityIt offers guidelines on how to organize sports activities inside and outside school (examples of such activities), how to link to sports activities to seasonal Topics and local/ national Events.
• Daily Physical Activity in Schools – Grades 7 to 8The guide gives examples of sports activities and provides useful general tips on planning organizing sports activities as well as making the best use of physical activity facilities.
• The children’s sport participation and physical activity studyIt was a cross-sectional study that used self-report surveys, objective measures of physical activity and qualitative interviews to assess participation in physical activity, physical education, extra-curricular and extra-school sport among 10-18 year olds.
• Evidence on physical education and sport in schoolsThis evidence note reports domestic and international evidence on physical PE and sport in primary and secondary schools in UK (sports children participate in in primary schools and secondary schools.)
• Physical Education and Sport at School in EuropeChapter 2 aims to examine the curriculum, including its national aims, learning outcomes, activities specified in the central curriculum and steering documents, and exemptions from physical education.
• TeAch-nology.comTeAchnology provides free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. It features 46,000+ lesson plans, 10,200 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources.