The motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities for life
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Physical Literacy 101: An Introduction to Physical Literacy
($600 CAD | 4hrs)
Physical Literacy 201: Physical Literacy Assessment for Youth
Physical Literacy 101: An Introduction to Physical Literacy
($600 or $20/person CAD | 3hrs)
Dr. Jacqueline D. Goodway
Dr. John Cairney
Dr. Dean Dudley
Dr. Nalda Wainwright
Physical Literacy 101: An Introduction to Physical Literacy
($600 CAD | 4hrs)
Physical activity is a lot more fun when you are physically literate. Now more than ever, physical literacy is being recognized as an important component of best practices in the sport, recreation, health and education sectors within Canada. Unfortunately, not everyone knows or understands what exactly physical literacy is.
The goal of the Physical Literacy 101 workshop is to cover a broad introduction to the concept of physical literacy. During this half-day workshop, you will take part in an interactive session that will help you to define what exactly physical literacy means, and how you can integrate its concepts to improve your programs. We will touch on the Physical Literacy Assessment for Youth (PLAY) Tools and show you how these can be used to track development of physical literacy skills to help participants improve where needed. You will leave with a solid understanding of what physical literacy is and knowledge of how you can encourage continual improvement and development of physical literacy skills across the lifespan
Physical Literacy 201: Physical Literacy Assessment for Youth
($600 CAD | 4hrs)
This workshop will provide participants with the ability to execute, score and interpret the physical literacy assessment for youth (PLAY) tools in a sport specific setting. The session includes an update on physical literacy trends, which highlight potential roles for sport associations. Participants will leave this session with a renewed sense of urgency to address physical literacy through your strong working knowledge of the PLAY tools and their application. There are numerous opportunities and applications for these tools, including physical literacy awareness for parents and coaches, global and individual tracking of physical literacy, assessing the impact of your programs on physical literacy development and research applications.
The Physical Literacy 501 workshop will help participants to understand the importance of physical literacy development for participants with disabilities. This workshop will take participants through what universally accessible programs are and how to plan and create them. It will also help participants to develop their adaptations to fundamental movement skills to allow for different disability types to participate and have a quality first involvement experience.
The Physical Literacy for Older Adults workshop is specifically designed to provide leaders who work with older adults (55+) with an increased understanding of physical literacy development. During this half-day workshop, you will take part in an interactive session that will help you to define physical literacy, the key barriers to participation for older adults and how to address them, and how to use the 5 + 5 program characteristics to design quality programs for older adults. By the end of the workshop you will know how to make modifications or create new physical literacy enhanced programs in your own organization.
By the end of the workshop participants will be able to integrate concepts from the previous three courses to create a physical literacy enriched environment for program participants. Upon completion of the workshop, and with proof of completing the pre-requisites, participants will be provided with an activation key to take the final summative assessment to complete the Physical Literacy Instructor Program.
Physical Literacy 101: An Introduction to Physical Literacy
($600 or $20/person CAD | 3hrs)
Physical activity is a lot more fun when you are physically literate. Now more than ever, physical literacy is being recognized as an important component of best practices in the sport, recreation, health and education sectors within Canada. Unfortunately, not everyone knows or understands what exactly physical literacy is.
The goal of the Physical Literacy 101 workshop is to cover a broad introduction to the concept of physical literacy. During this half-day workshop, you will take part in an interactive session that will help you to define what exactly physical literacy means, and how you can integrate its concepts to improve your programs. We will touch on the Physical Literacy Assessment for Youth (PLAY) Tools and show you how these can be used to track development of physical literacy skills to help participants improve where needed. You will leave with a solid understanding of what physical literacy is and knowledge of how you can encourage continual improvement and development of physical literacy skills across the lifespan
Dr. Jackie Goodway is a faculty member in the area of motor development and elementary physical education in the Kinesiology program of the Department of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Goodway’s physical literacy research agenda focuses on issues associated with the evaluation and promotion of motor skill development and physical activity interventions in young children from disadvantaged communities. Her evidenced-based motor skill and physical activity program called SKIP (Successful Kinesthetic Instruction for Preschoolers) has been implemented across the USA and 8 different countries across 3 continents.
She has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, 100 published abstracts, 12 book chapters, and over 180 international and national presentations in this area. She has co-authored one of the leading textbooks in motor development within the USA and globally. Her work has resulted in many honors including the Lolas E. Halverson Young Investigator award from the Motor Development Academy of the National Association of Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), and the Mabel Lee Award from the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) and the Senior Lecturer award from NASPSA.
Dr.Goodway was inducted as a Fellow of the Research Consortium of AAHPERD and a Fellow of the North American Society of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance Professionals in recognition of her 20+ years of scholarship to the field. Dr. Goodway has also provided national leadership within the USA serving on NASPE’s Professional Preparation & Research Steering committee and chairing the revision of the “Active Start” national physical activity guidelines for 0-5 year olds. She has also served as a consultant on the development of Nickelodeon Fit, a Wii video game to promote physical activity for preschoolers.
Dr. Goodway actively works across the world to promote physical literacy for young children in underserved communities.
Dr. John Cairney
From 2002 to 2008, Dr. Cairney held a Canada Research Chair in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He was the inaugural holder of the McMaster Family Medicine Research Chair in Child Health at McMaster and the founding Director of the Infant and Child Health (INCH) lab at McMaster University (www.inchlab.ca). Dr. Cairney was President (elect) of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatry from 2009 to 2015. He is currently the President (elect) for the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM).
Active in publishing (200 peer-reviewed publications; 4 books), Dr. Cairney sits on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health and BMC Pediatrics. Over the past 5 years, he is held in excess of $5 million dollars in research funding. He is Editor-in- Chief of Current Developmental Disorders Reports (Springer Publishing). Dr. Cairney has also done extensive consulting work for the Ministries of Child and Youth Services, Health and Education in the province of Ontario in the area of child health and development.
Dr. Dean Dudley
Dr. Dean Dudley is the Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Health and Physical Education in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia). He is also the World Regional Vice President to Fédération Internationale d’Education Physique (International Federation of Physical Education – FIEP), Chief Examiner for the New South Wales Board of Studies and Teacher Education Standards and Honorary Chair of Learning and Development for Surf Life Saving Australia.
Dr. Dean Dudley received his Ph.D. in physical education from University of Wollongong, Australia in 2012. Previously he has completed a Master of Education (Research) and a Bachelor of Health Science. Currently, he is the Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Health and Physical Education in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia).
Dean is a 2012 Churchill Fellow and was an Expert Consultant on the Quality Physical Education Guidelines for Policymakers in 2015 and MINEPS VI in 2017 for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
He is currently the World Regional Vice President to Fédération Internationale d’Education Physique (International Federation of Physical Education – FIEP), Chief Examiner for the New South Wales Board of Studies and Teacher Education Standards and Honorary Chair of Learning and Development for Surf Life Saving Australia.
Dean’s research is currently focused on the assessment and reporting of physical education and the development of observed learning outcomes pertaining to physical literacy. He is also a researcher of evidence-based approaches to health and physical education that yield large learning effects in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning domains.
Dr. Nalda Wainwright
Dr. Nalda Wainwright is director of Wales Institute for Physical Literacy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Sport Health and Outdoor Education and Programme Director for the MA Physical Education, Sport and Physical Literacy.
Nalda worked with Professor Margaret Whitehead for her PhD research which investigated the impact of the Welsh early years curriculum on physical literacy. She is the chair of the National Physical Literacy Project for School Research Group, Strategic lead for the regional Welsh Government Physical Literacy Schools project and an Expert Panel Member for the development of the Australian Physical Literacy Standard.
Her current research interests lie in the role of physical literacy in developing Health and Wellbeing and she is the professorial advisor for the development of this area of learning and experience for the new Welsh Curriculum. Her work at the Wales Institute for Physical Literacy is focussing on how the Foundation Phase can be developed to lay the foundations of lifelong physical activity and health.
Nalda taught for 14 years in primary schools and developed expertise in working with diverse needs spending 5 years as head of a unit for children with moderate and complex learning needs. She was the lead consultant for the Welsh Government's Physical Education and School Sport inclusion project and a national trainer for health fitness and well-being project.
Nalda is passionate about physical activity in her own life taking part in triathlon, sea swimming, surfing, mountain biking and snowboarding. Nalda completed Ironman Wales and the Marmotte cyclosportif in France in 2014. She has recently taken up Paddle boarding and is trying to chill out on the water in the quieter parts of the coast of the Pembrokeshire National Park where she lives in Wales.
