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so excited to be here this morning good morning everybody I am in LA so it's 9 o'clock in the morning here so I hope everybody who is in Canada or wherever you are in the world just having a good day or morning so far let's get started we have a lot to to get through I'm so excited that Phe decided to go online I was supposed to be at the conference in Canada presenting on just empowered play so the goal today is to try and give you a very shortened version what that will look like and then how to convert that and integrate that with your curriculum and and move it online so I want to make sure that you guys get what you want out of today I've spent many years as they kind of described in my bio honing this plan and constructing this construct so I'm excited to share it with you and it's a lot of information like I said so I'm going to go through it very fast there's a handout provided to help support there's gonna be some polling questions there'll be some opportunities that I should mention to ask questions at the end so and maybe we'll have time to play I'm hoping I'm gonna watch the clock I only have about 40 minutes to talk and get through everything so let's see how it goes all right so let's get this screenshare started alright Empowered play online again my name is Faris why I'm in LA and before we say what is empowered play let's talk about what does it mean to be empowered what does the word empowered mean and it's a word that a lot of people are using nowadays but at its at its core it's giving authority or power to someone or something and making them feel stronger and more confident and what else do we want to do for our students then provide them with that opportunity it's a greater feeling of well-being and better health and feeling empowered and putting meaning to the actions that they're doing it also gives them a sense of positivity on the road to happiness and a lot of what we're gonna be talking about today is what is empowered play in and of itself you know as I mentioned I was going to be there talking about this and implementing it into your classroom or your gym oh and let's launch the first polling question I want to see who we have out there I saw and we have quite a number of people out there I want to know what age you guys are working with so I know it's K through 12 and I don't know if my screen share just got lost because my screen changed so can you guys still see my screen they I think they're seeing the polling question right now so we'll just wait for them to submit the result first okay so I'll just keep talking so take take just a second to just share with me what age you guys are working with again I know it's about K through 12 so just want to make sure that I'm responding to to all the different attendees that we have here today I'm going to aim to share information whether you're teaching kindergarten or 12th grade or anything in the middle about how to connect these concepts to those ages and grades so so just finishing up talking about the definition of empowerment is just giving your students a sense of competency and positivity so that they can gain the skills that you're trying to teach them and and use them in their best way so I think let's just give one more moment so that we make sure you've got plenty of time to get on with everything it looks like 75% of you have responded and those of you who have not yet responded go ahead and submit your response now and we'll close the poll in a few moments all right so while we're just finishing it up let's wait I'm sorry let's move on to what are the benefits of play and what is play so I'm as I've kind of gotten more into play research and talking to more people who are in that industry it's very clear that although there is a definition of play there's a Webster's definition of play everyone kind of has has their own and mine is process based self-chosen self-directed imaginative and active for me if I'm talking about play it's it's active play and it's how we're getting our students up and moving constantly with intention all right hey how we doing okay I think we're going to close the pool right now and let me share the results with everyone okay all right great so when you start yeah yeah and I will hand it back over to Farah [Music] okay so and just quickly through the benefits of play I'm sure most of you already familiar with these talking about executive functioning skills and social emotional behavioral skills and we're going to get a little bit more in-depth into all of these as we move through the components of empowered play and so my definition of my empowered play is that it embraces the whole child through a combination of social behavioral emotional and cognitive skills fused with physical literacy character strengths and positive psychology to achieve lifelong playful movement a lot of stuff going on in that sentence right so let's break it down a little bit every student is unique in how they learn practice experience and implement skills and lessons offered in any movement class so implementing empowered play as I mentioned it's a construct it's not a curriculum so my goal today is to help you take whatever you're doing because you're all amazing you're here today to learn more to improve your skills to be a better teacher and coach for your students and how can I help you and how can I be supportive so my goal is to empower you to be able to improve your skills and what we're gonna do is be a little introspective this morning so we're gonna do one more poll here talking about intention and goals I think so as I mentioned I want to make sure that you're getting out of today what you need there's I don't know I think that's not close to 200 people out there so I have my intention of what I want to relay to you but you're all in a unique situation and I really want to make sure that everybody is getting what they what they came for here or as close as possible you can always reach out to me afterwards and I'm happy to be continuously helpful so just you take a moment and why are you here write it down what do you need what do you want to walk away from from this presentation and our our poll is gonna asking you how you feel are you frustrated are you excited so they hmm launch that next question so are you excited to try oh go ahead yeah our second polling questions as you can see we're asking how do you feel about online learning and the options are on your screen and we'll give it a few moments for people to select the ones that they feel most appropriate to describe in themselves so yeah are you excited to try new things and you could be more than one thing right you can be excited and scared all at the same time this is a brand new world that we're living in but we're gonna talk about positive intention and reframing of of how you might be approaching online learning and while you can be excited to be trying something new it can also be really scary maybe the technology is a concern for you logistics might be a concern so it's okay also mixed emotions that option is in there too maybe you're something that's I didn't even list so just try to give a couple different options and let's see how people are feeling okay it looks like we have close to 80 percent of people have responded so we'll keep it maybe another 20 second all right so after this we're going to start getting into the components of empowered play and as I mentioned in the definition it's character strengths positive psychology social behavioral emotional and cognitive development as well as physical literacy so the first one we're going to get into is character strengths so let's see how's our poll doing here okay so we're not closing the pool and let me share the result with everyone all right okay awesome I'm excited than many of you are excited alright and then hopefully by the end the frustration and the fear a little bit will subside as we go through a little bit more of helpful ways to implement your curriculum all right so let's get into character strengths all right who are you what thoughts and feelings do you have what are your strengths your challenges and that goes into how are you feeling so we just you know let's get into that mindset of what do you feel are your strong points about moving into online learning what do you feel are your challenges and when we ask these questions of ourselves it gives us an opportunity to not just be introspective of ourselves but to see how do we approach difficulties challenges and successes because if we take what we do and we're successful then we can use those same components apply them to where the challenges are and we can make improvements there and that's what we're asking of our students and so oftentimes if we're able to relate what issues we're having then it helps a student understand better what they can do to improve their own challenges and struggles so character strengths are authentic joyful energizing it's not about what you can do but it's about who you are and what I found is oftentimes sometimes you know what you're good at but you don't know the why and and really what we're gonna be doing today talking about empowered play is understanding the Y and the Y is not just gonna help you help your students improve moving but it's also gonna help you support them going through this process this trauma is really what a lot of the kids are feeling whether or not they know it now even if they know that they're responding that way that's what we're going through so we're gonna explore how improving strengths that they already have that are well known and maybe strengths that they have that are not as well built and we're going to help them improve that foundation so they can improve their self-confidence and self-awareness if I know that I'm brave then I can tap into that but if I don't know that yet about myself maybe I haven't been put into that position or maybe I just haven't allowed myself to access that part of me I don't know that it's there all right it also helps us understand why everybody is different you know if you think about your classes kids getting frustrated with other kids because they just don't understand again if your students are more in tune with who they are and what they need it gives them the opportunity to be more empathetic and that's a lot of what we need from each other right now so um you guys are just gonna do this on your own at home no polling this time I want you guys just to check out this is the character strikes list there's 24 character strengths they're divided into six different categories everybody has all of these character strikes to varying degrees and as I was kind of reviewing this over with myself last night I was trying to come up with some sort of image to describe this and and I like to use the word spark and shine and and so made me think of fire and so I'm kind of how I sort of thinking about these character strengths is that there are big sticks and little sticks and they all come together into this like beautiful bonfire and so the ones that you are more familiar with as I mentioned maybe it's bravery for a lot of us it's probably leadership because of the roles that were in and if those are your bigger sticks and then they get more opportunity to get utilized but if you have six that are smaller maybe it's curiosity or hope especially right now those might be character strengths that you want to work on and so if you're able to recognize that in yourself then again you'll be able to support your students when you see some sort of a behavioral issue or a skill challenge to start thinking of why are they struggling why are they having this issue so go ahead and take a second and check that out I didn't want you guys to share it but I've now discovered I can't see my chat so if you guys want to share for each other then that's great and you can maybe share with me afterwards so so character strength speed in to a field of research called positive psychology and that focuses on enabling those strengths to give the individuals and communities the opportunity to thrive that's what we want right we want to help our students think more positively it's linked to better health longer life and greater well-being we want them to seek pleasure pursue their goals search for meaning outside themselves and express their appreciation and joy experiences live in the moment and take care of yourself right that's what we're doing right now so we're all in this moment together we are engaging fully and grateful to be here and be a part of this group and and you're taking time for yourself right to do this and be here and to improve your your teaching skills and the most important thing to remember about character strengths is it's not it's not about categorizing things to say I'm really good at this thing or I'm not good at this thing as I mentioned in earlier is that how do you know you're brave if you've never been presented with that challenge how do you know that you can persevere if you've never wanted to quit and and so it's finding the appreciation and benefits of being challenged that is going to help you improve as a person we want to help these students become their best selves so how are we how are we gonna support them in doing that so I want to play a game but I don't know if we have enough time so we'll come back to that okay I have another game plan later on so maybe we'll have more time at the end but I want to make sure that we get through everything so so the next component to empower play is compassionate communication and it's a theory that's built on that we all have needs basic needs that need to be met and if you are aware of what you need then you can express your feelings with clarity and self responsibility if you get into a disagreement with your friend or your partner or your student it helps you understand what did you need why did you get upset but did you need to be heard or did you not feel loved you know whatever it might be and oftentimes if we're thinking about our students and it doesn't really matter what age they are those are two very basic components that are really important to your students and that in and of itself can lead to frustration and issues in the classroom again between students between you and his students and so being able to express what you need is is really important on the other side of that is is being able to listen so again we go back to this concept of empathy and if you are able to share what you need and you want somebody else to hear that then you also have to be willing to actively listen to what their needs are and again be introspective and say okay how can I support my student or this other teacher in improving so it facilitates mutual beneficial outcomes and that emerges from the quality of relationships so being able to be more open with what you need and how you can support your students and and in their learning then we will utilize these four concepts its consciousness language communication skills and means of influence so if you use compassion collaboration courage and authenticity if that's where you start so again you know we started this off thinking about what's my intention what's my goal of being here right if you stay in that space about what do you want to be doing then it helps you stay in an understanding space and that will help you utilize the best language so that so that you're offering your students what they need in terms of supporting them so if you discover their why then you're able to ask them the right questions or share the right words and again we don't have enough time to kind of go through everything but compassionate communication and conscious discipline which we're going to get into in just a couple of minutes it does provide you with that language so if this is something that is of interest to you there is a lot more learning and reading and as I mentioned I'm happy to talk to you guys more you know you can ask questions at the end you can reach out to me afterwards but there's a lot more that goes into these different components of empowered play so being able to communicate better and this is an opportunity to be powerful be empowered with others not power over others so it's an entirely new way of perceiving sometimes how we communicate with people especially when we're getting into some sort of a conflict so conscious discipline works off of safety connection and problem-solving and I was doing baby beforehand I kept trying to figure out how I could pare this down and make sure that I'm giving enough time to what is empowered play because I do feel like the components are important to apply to your online education is it'll be a really supportive opportunity for your students but some of the things I just I couldn't cut out so we're gonna talk about conscious discipline and it's social-emotional learning provides self-regulation and teaches vital life skills and so when you connect that with the character strengths you're assisting your students in being able to handle really any situation so whatever is happening and it's an important discipline to use right now so it's a behavioral management system you learn how to maintain your composure and this is for you as much as it is for your students so understanding your triggers and again if you have older students being able to relay those issues and your challenges oftentimes that creates better connections with your students and that's a lot of what we're doing here with online learning if you're doing nothing else you are connecting with your students and that is kind of the challenge for me today is that I literally can't even see myself on the screen by the way so being able to connect with your students is really the number one thing however you decide is the best way for you to do that authentically everything else you do from there is gonna be icing on the cake all right so you develop new ways to calm yourself and then that gives you the opportunity to respond rather than react to negativity and stress so think about a time where you got frustrated with a student I know does it happen very often but think about when you got fresh - with the student and how you reacted don't even think about what it was doesn't matter what the student did how did you react and how did you feel about your reaction right lots of different things happen especially you know working with the different ages that you know it could trigger something in you maybe it's a student who did the same thing over and over again maybe you were just having a rough day and it was your last class or whatever it might be right a lot of it is so we walk away feeling good about how we handle the situation we're not going to be able to control any of our students we are trying to give them the best education and support that we can but ultimately we can only do the best that we can providing them you know with that support so this is one of the components to conscious discipline it's building a school family so if we support our students and impulse control again that goes back to the triggers and they're reacting it'll give them a willingness to learn and provide us with their attention so again I'm going through this very quickly because I want to make sure I have enough time for everything so if you have more questions on it again feel free to reach out to me the consciousness one also asks that you find a safe space and that helps teach self-regulation and so I've shared a couple of ideas here these are physical safe spaces it could be a sweatshirt or a beanbag or a little box of toys it can even be visualization right so if your student doesn't have anywhere to go it's it's again it's that concept of a happy place right so it could be a physical object it could just be a place that you go to in your head so um real quick I'm just going to go through kind of how it works so you want to acknowledge your feelings once you get triggered and so once you can deter okay I am angry or frustrated or upset or whatever that word is bye what's happening right now by what my student is doing it uses conscious discipline uses calming techniques of breathing is really their main line and then acknowledging that feeling and then by taking that even one second break of taking that breath you can choose to reframe what is happening and you can go from I am angry and I'm going to be reactive to what is the actual need that you're not getting met right you want to be heard that's a neat okay that you're the adult and they're the child it doesn't mean that that's not something that you need to be fulfilled and what does that mean that the child needs to be doing the child needs to be listening and so that is the solution that you can provide that child so we always want to frame things in what we want right if you see children running down the hallway if you say don't run what are they here they here right so if you tell them what they want then that's the word that they hear so we tell the the running children to walk we would tell the talking child to listen not don't talk because that is the need that we want we want them to listen they we want them to hear what we have to say alright I'm connections so there's four critical elements it's eye contact presence touch and playfulness obviously the one we can't do right now it's physical touch I'm but we'll talk about connecting with parents and and how we can include that component but you can still have eye contact you're still present you're paying attention you're not off doing something else looking at a bunch of different directions and you can still make it playful all right I'm sorry I don't know if we have time to do the play break today but it was really important here's another one I don't know we're gonna have time for it so so hopefully maybe at the end well we'll get lucky so let's get into some of the developmental components so the benefits of play in regards to social and behavioral development is you learn how to negotiate group dynamics collaborate compromise and handle other's feelings and be able to share your own so again going into the compassionate communication and the conscious discipline being fully aware of your needs your strengths so that you can use those to your benefit and also be able to hear what others need for new provides for creative expression and imaginations to run wild we need these things more than ever right we are gonna have to be creative we are gonna have to use our imaginations right now and we're gonna be asking the same of our students creating new worlds unique ideas solutions to challenges that we didn't even know was a challenge so and then the other thing and we're going to talk about how to kind of manage different sized groups um so they didn't have a chance to ask all the questions but presuming maybe some of you are teaching really large classes um solo play still exists even in your online classes so if you're running a really big class and there's a student who's maybe a little bit more shy and perhaps they're just sitting there watching it's still an opportunity for them to learn social cues so even though this construct is usually talking about a child sitting on a playground watching other students you still have that interaction and then obviously there's a lot of solo play going on inside of their houses but you know that's okay too gives them the opportunity to be creative so lots of free play going on right now to presumably and that builds self-confidence and self-esteem and allows them to experiment with various emotions and because of all the different things that are going on right now these kids are experiencing all these different emotions and what a great way to experience and imagine all these different emotions so that they can even just develop these pretend worlds where they can figure out how to move through those emotions not ignore them but understand that and then build emotional strength and stability and hopefully that turns into the opportunities for spontaneity humor positivity again reframing reinvigorating what's going on right now and figuring out how to use that in a positive way play allows for vulnerability uncertainty risk emotional exposure leads to one being able to be courageous and adventurous again what we're asking of you guys right now this is really vulnerable me talking into my camera not being able to see anybody that's being vulnerable but being able to be open about what your imperfections or your inadequacies are reminds everybody that we're connected you know oftentimes students think that teachers don't understand them and you know it's like when I wasn't eight once I wasn't 15 once right we all went through it in our own way and again being able to relate and share with your students your strengths your challenges gives them the opportunity to understand where you're coming from and for them to be able to connect with you a little bit better so you can ask for help in regards to how to be vulnerable you can look for opportunities to learn so it's also vulnerable opportunity for you guys right you're here you're being honest about okay I need some help I need to get better even if you're already awesome right we can always grow I'm always loving to learn from my fellow teachers as well and be willing to change your habits and that's a big one and that we're going to be talking about and be willing to manifest right what do you want how do you want to get there and last one is a cognitive development so play helps children develop intrinsic interests make decisions exert self-control regulate their emotions make friends and experience joy and we're going to talk real quick about classroom connection because another opportunity that you might have is joining other teachers so again I don't know what your different setups look like maybe you're running your own PE classes online maybe you have an opportunity at our school as they mentioned I teach at a private school here and I pop in two other classes so I'm creating videos for my students and I pop into their classes and most of the time I'm actually going along with their themes but we're also going to talk about themes that you guys can create in your classes here we come connected with the steam teacher and this is preschool so what we wanted to teach these kids was about force production and throwing mechanics and splatter patterns and so do a very skilled back degree obviously because they're in preschool but you start to build those connections in the brain and that's and that's the goal of a lot of what we're doing also through play is you're opening these doors for them to learn new words and improve their literacy skills and then this is an experiment we asked them what they thought would happen when they dipped an aluminum we just rolled aluminum foil into a ball dip it in paint they stood at the different lines and threw so you know if you're working with older students then this is a great opportunity to talk about all those different components and keep layering on and again connecting with your science or your mouth or your steam teacher whatever you might have at your school then this is a great way to build on that so this is also a great way to take something that you're doing in class and extend it to a home project so we're gonna talk about that a little bit more but these are ways that you can keep building on your curriculum II and you don't have to keep coming up with a bunch of new ideas that you can you know create these streams of information so last real quick we're gonna talk about physical literacy cuz I know we're running out of time and I feel like probably a lot of you are familiar with this concept actually funny enough in America really no one knows about this so um so I just want to make sure that I covered it just in case real quick but I do feel confident that a lot of you are familiar with this concept so it's the mastering of fundamental movement and sports skills but it's so much more than that right it it helps the student read their environment and make appropriate decisions the best way that it's been described to me and I've been using this and it seems to be very helpful to everybody who I share it with is that if you teach kid a single sport whatever it might be it's like you're teaching them how to read one book but if you teach me out with that then you're teaching them how to read all the books and so physical literacy is the alphabet of who men and so we're not just giving them the skills we're sharing with them the confidence and the desire to be able to move and play any game that they want to play so they can move efficiently creatively enthusiastically right it's not just about having the skills it's about wanting to use them you feel so good about being able to throw or kick or run or jump that you just want to be playful all the time and not just for yourself you want to inspire others um and I love physical literacy so much because it's also all encompassing of all the different components of whole child development so motivation and confidence physical confidence knowledge and understanding and engagement in physical activities for life so we are starting to run out of time so I just want to make sure that I get to everything before I start talking about moving to online classes you know what fam a little concerned about the time so I'm actually going to skip doing the last poll and then hopefully we'll we'll do it at the end um so lots of different choices about how to move your classes online or on go to meeting my school uses zoom it doesn't really matter what you're doing before you get in front of your students practice practice with your friends practice with your kid if you have them in your house just make sure that you know what you're doing because the last thing that you want to be doing when you're in front of your students trying to utilize your curriculum is trying to play and figure out how to turn the music on or how to share your screen or how to do the breakout room so make sure that you're well-versed and what you're doing so let's get into what are you gonna do and how are you going to do it alright so you've got your curriculum we're not trying to mess with your curriculum right we're trying to figure out how to take it and how to apply it online in the most effective way possible so here are various ways that you could implement play again this works in the classroom and it also works online you just got to start thinking differently so if we're talking about unstructured play right that would be thinking about kids just running free maybe on the field and that kind of a thing but we're really just talking about clay for the purpose of play no no specific learning objective and fun ways to start integrating that it's looking at scavenger hunts or bingo or anything really where you're just having them move with no necessary kind of end in sight right running in place that kind of thing of course they're always gaining something beneficial from whatever we're doing but sometimes it's play just for the sake play and then we have structured more play with a purpose that would be playing more of a game like red light green light right we're talking about younger kids working on stopping and starting right also teach his self-regulation and one of the games that we were gonna play is a clap stomp game which actually encompasses everything but I use it to help teach math skills and so it's actually really funny maybe I even do with adults so it's a great game maybe we'll get to play if we have a couple minutes at the end but rough-and-tumble is a challenge but it's really important for their development so figuring out if there's a way where they can even just jump on cushions or blankets or mats or anything like that guided and imaginative play as you can see this is actually my daughter I pulled up the artificial intelligence animals and we did this for my students but she acted out the different animals but as we'll get to in just a moment you need visuals it's got to be it's gotta be visually interesting it's only so interesting to look at your coach for a certain amount of time so you know this is a visual guide we can also create images and you can use different props again it's challenging to know what your students have available or not whether they have manipulatives whatever that might be a ball a frisbee at bat and we'll talk about how to be creative and making sure that your students have what they need you can still utilize competitive and non-competitive pieces in your classes so minute to win it challenges if you're playing bingo that can win bingo so nothing wrong with using competition right it does push students to drive themselves maybe a little bit faster brain force there bring forth their best effort and there's no need for it to be feared Wright teaches being good sport having self esteem sometimes you lose teaches resilience and that's okay independent versus group we're going to talk about how you can send things home for them to do versus doing things all together in the group where they're building that connection extended versus short bouts again if you're doing your own class then that'll be the extended play short bouts even brain breaks which is what I was hoping to squeeze them today but I'm glad because we did not have time for them but you could even jump into another teachers class and you know Surprise them and you know teach part of your curriculum there just as a brain break which I'm sure the other teachers might appreciate and then inside versus outside most of your students will probably be inside but again sending those at home challenges will be a nice opportunity to send them outside that gives more opportunities for decision making it's less controlled outside so they can practice things inside and then and then take them outside for their at-home challenges and you just want to make sure that you're including all of your students whatever that word means you know again even if it's from they don't have any balls at their house to you know whatever their individualized needs are you just want to be thoughtful and make sure that you're allowing your curriculum and your programming to support all of your students all right so benefits of online learning alright we are gonna go over time it's just gonna happen whatever needs arguing at leas so if this special opportunity to expand play if you have students who don't participate as well in your class this is a great opportunity to try and reach those kids and promote play online you know again I don't know how often you're seeing your students even if you're in real life what does that even look like and if you feel like there's more things that they can do at home and more connections that you can make even outside of the classroom whenever you go back take these skills and all of these new components that you're learning and keep using them it's all going to be beneficial to making you a more efficient more effective teacher and a coach it'll give you new ways to engage your students again in thinking creatively you know paper plates paper towel rolls I've used paper shopping bags lots of stuff with hampers and socks and the stuffed animals so you know I didn't even go to my school to get any of my equipment I didn't want any of it I wanted to be as authentic as possible when saying to my students okay we're gonna practice throwing and catching and if that's for my younger students maybe I'm using a balloon but if they don't have a balloon I grabbed one of my gallon ziplock bags and I blew it up and it works it wasn't a hundred percent but it was better than saying if you don't have a balloon you don't have a balloon you know and if your student is struggling then maybe that's where they need to start and saying we'll just go get a ball maybe that doesn't work so I'm just trying to think creatively also the other benefit about being at home is you don't have that same social issue to kind of deal with you know there are the social benefits to play but especially with those of you who are working with middle and high school students I'm sure there's kids who don't participate because their friends aren't participating and you've taken that piece away and so those kids might be more willing to not just participate but be playful and silly and you know play play these crazy games that you might come up with and I was hoping that this slide was on the next page because as you can see um you also can be willing to be more playful and silly you still want to be authentic but again we're trying to reinvigorate our curriculum I'm not reinvented so we're not throwing it out the window we're just trying to see how we can acknowledged our challenges and put a positive perspective on it always be interactive you can be showing things you can be telling them you know what you're doing I chose to put on different hats and a jacket pretending to be trending to be the different animals I chose to put on behalf of the different animals so you're still providing that high-quality physical education for your students you're just doing it in this new crazy format you want to keep your students moving and then you also want to focus on your direct and indirect instruction so again direct is where you're in front of your students and indirect are the games you're going to spend at home so number one is connection utilize the compassionate communication utilize their character strikes utilize their struggles to connect with them build relationships a couple of things that you really want to make sure that you have in your classes is a routine not a schedule but err routine if your students came in every day and you had music playing and they just started running do that just have music on on your computer you can start your class a couple minutes early if that's an option and you can even have a workout on your screen you know if that's if you've got older students perhaps that would work and you can say ten jumping jacks and ten high knees and whatever it might be but have that same routine kids thrive on expectations understand and you need to set the guidelines and expectations for your students so that they know we're online but this is still what I expect for you this is how we functioned in school this is how we functioned in class I have those same expectations for you and when you give them that then they they can rise and that's what we want we want to empower them to rise up to be them their best selves so if you have the option you can utilize breakout rooms if you don't know what they are you can ask your you can ask me you can ask a friend it's a way to split up your class and within your call in order to create smaller groups be creative as possible again it can be whatever you define is creative and still be authentic so whether that's a silly hat if you like doing art if you like doing music tap into what are all the other things that you love doing who are you that makes you such an awesome person and utilize those things throw them in I added in art you know to the to the steam project and that could be something that's fun for a child who may not necessarily usually enjoy throwing so that's a way to integrate more fun and more connection with those students who typically wouldn't want to participate in that kind of an activity um keep it simple don't give too many instructions you can start to layer especially if you're teaching older kids and they can remember concepts from one class to another but the younger you are the simpler you keep it the more fun it's going to be with your asks be general like I said we don't know what our students have in their houses and so you know I ask for them to have things that are round or a particular color and this way whatever they have will make it work you know if you ask for something round that can even be cutting out a circle out of a piece of paper so it also gives them the opportunity to be creative you know okay I don't I don't have a ball but you know I can I can go get something else that's round so stay high energy making it's something that we all kind of need that's the e teachers but again everything's got to be up even a little bit higher and then over plan if you are in your class and you you know scheduled whatever your plan was going to be for the day and you've got a couple of extra minutes we typically have backup plans all right they're they're gonna play tag we're gonna play you know whatever you you kind of have those things already set up in your hat you may not have that right now and so if you're left with five even ten minutes left on your on your PE class zoom call you don't want to be sitting there being like I don't know what to do right now so make sure you over plan or create your backup list a few more tips and tools as I said be energetic over animated but still be authentically you so so don't try and turn into somebody else right because kids are so smart so what I always do I love working with kids because you have to be authentic because they can see right through you trying to pretend to be someone or something that you're not I find a lot of success saying my kids names so if I say hey you're doing such a wonderful job of throwing that ball up in the air I see you watching it with your eyes right still be specific we still don't want to sleep we don't want to start throwing out that good job you know although those kinds of nondescript you know ways of encouraging students because they're they're not really encouraging right you want to be specific we want to tell them what we we see them doing well and and the fact that they hear us noticing what they're doing lets them know that even though I'm through a screen I'm still connecting with them I'm still watching them and if you have a student who's not participating and they hear you call out another kid's name well maybe they want you to call their name or maybe they realize oh my gosh wait my teachers actually watching me they didn't just tell me to do something and then they turned their attention away you can also spotlight yourself that's helpful because this way the students are mostly looking at you sometimes kids walk away or you know a variety of things can happen and then they're staring at empty boxes or if a kid's not participating right same kind of mood that that creates in class again everything is heightened online so if you spotlight yourself or you can spotlight a student another way that you can do it if that works out well in your classes then you can try that again props music you could bring a special guest and you can go and be a special guest it's also helpful if you send your information beforehand what equipment do you want your students to have if you're going to be extending it you might want to send that beforehand again that kind of just depends on your age and and how your classes function but if you say we're going to start practicing throwing in class and then that's going to extend to this project that we're going to do outside then that will help them start thinking about okay maybe I do want to understand how this all works in class because I really want to do this project at home that sounds like a lot of fun some younger kids I'm telling stories using digital books or videos can also be really helpful again the more you can engage them on the screen right looking at your faces is wonderful but the props and the and the costumes and all these other fun things that you can do will help engage them um and you can have seams so themes can go two ways you can focus on throwing and then you can pull in all these different ways of practicing the throwing you can do it with kicking and jumping and you can integrate art and you can integrate music and that can be kind of your theme for the week and you can also have themes for each class I could be superhero day or college day or you know again depending on your age and and what your kids like color day just another way of just keeping up that spirit right that's what we really want to be able to do so what doesn't work is a lot of talking too many instructions too much equipment required not enough space where we have to be cognizant about how much space our students have on some are in living rooms some I usually call it like a yoga mats worth of space so we really have to be aware that we start on the smaller scale and then we build up from there you know when one student said I live in an apartment and I can't make a lot of noise and so I said okay I'll start off with that you can't jump then you know you can do squats instead and if you are able to jump in here as you know the activity and and come up with a plan so that you can include all of your students don't be too quiet again you want to be nice and loud and be able to project again just like you would in your class and again we talked about the concern of the under planning and the at home experiences you want to keep your kids engaged in between classes not just because you want to keep them active but you want them to keep coming back to your classes right so it's all circular if you do something fun and then you say go home and do something fun and then come back and do the fun thing all together you can have the kids teach if you're doing the breakout rooms and you're working with older students you can have the kids teach each other if you want to have them come up with an art project that they're doing at home that's connected they show their art if they want to have them come up with the game they can teach the game so there's a lot of ways where if you keep engaging your students in and out of class it helped keep them coming back to class feeling good about what they're doing and so it again provides that intrinsic value of why do I want to play why do I want to be active and why do I want to motivate and inspire you so we're creating this amazing culture of empowered and active play and you can also utilize different components of social media there's so many apps out there and I've just got a couple different ones you got pic collage and seesaw oh and one other thing that I didn't mention yet is that in terms of themes if you want to be able to even heighten what you're teaching your students and we taught at my company and we taught a class called steamroll and it was a way of building physiology education into active play so we would teach about the different body parts whether it's body parts or heart or systems the circulatory system respiratory system and we would teach about those the different parts of the body that that affected and then we would do an activity so it's exercise physiology for kids really so understanding you know what are the different systems of the body if I exercise how does that affect me in the short term and in the long term so you're providing them with more understanding of the why am I doing this not just what am i do during one-on-one meetings with students can also be helpful out of class if they're struggling if you can send boxes of activities home again instructions or you know if your PTA can help you and you can send every kid a jump rope you know whatever your your school allows you to do and then you know just a couple of games here but we are seriously out of time my apologies for going over but I felt really confident that it was going to happen so babe we have time to maybe take a question or two okay we did receive some questions and we can now start being answering some of these questions but just as a reminder you can still submit questions throughout the Q&A session and you will find the question pane at your control panel but our first question is from Kayla and she's looking for suggestions when the student hates being physically active so she said I find this is a struggle in junior high to high school some students just don't like being active I listen to what they have to say but just don't know where to go from here I don't know if the things I say really help my students find a connection with being active and how much fun it can be you know some of what we're trying to instill in our students is not what they're gonna do today it's something that they might do in a year or five years and I work a lot with preschool kids and and their parents come to me and they've already decided when their kids are like three four years old that they're not athletes which which kills me to know and because I'm like how do you how do you even define what that means and and just because you don't think your kids gonna become a professional athlete doesn't mean that they're not going to be able to develop the skills to be successful and so when I look at students and the reason that I love physical literacy and talking about you know fundamental movement and sports skills is because I'm trying to instill in my students the confidence and the ability to use those skills even if they don't want to use them today they might go to an after-school program where they want to use it or they might even be already in college and they want to that's when they decide they want to pick up a recreational sport or everyone in their dorm is going to go out and play basketball that's when they're gonna remind themselves to be like wait a second I have agility skill I have throwing skills I have communication and teamwork skills because you've played games and you provided them the opportunity to practice those skills and you're just giving them tiny little nuggets the other thing that you can try again because we're at home and and you can try and individualize these things for your students is say what does interest you you know again if this is a student who likes music who likes art if you know they don't enjoy being physically active altogether what can they do to enjoy that you know can they bring a book to life you know how can you get their creative juices flowing about what is it that you enjoy why do you enjoy it and then having them delve in especially at that middle school age they can really start to look at you know what are their strengths one of the reasons that I love working with middle school girls is because that was the time where I struggled the most and I think a lot of us do and I'm sorry I don't remember if you said that you kind of related back to your struggles but perhaps if that is something that would work to open up to your student a little bit whatever might be appropriate and that they can understand where you're coming from you know being a personal trainer first and then I'm going into physical education you're always hearing people be like well I'm never gonna be as good you know I'm never gonna be as strong and and that's not the goal the goal is to just fighting what's gonna inspire and motivate your student to to want to be active so using some of these concepts the the key on the character strengths what are their values what are their needs what are their joys and then working off of those in build and you're not trying to recreate your student you're you're trying to get them to what I enjoy it so working from the inside out okay so we have another questions from Stacie and she's wondering where you got these characters strands from I guess she's asking for the reference and also the references for compassionate communication so are you drawing these from collaborative communication or even non well and communication so compassionate communication has been around since the sixties it's also called nonviolent communication I choose to use the phrase compassionate communication so so that's a theory that's been develop the the character strengths is also something that's been researched for many years again it's utilized by a variety of different disciplines so I did not make those things up I'm happy to send you the references if you want to delve deeper into it that's it's pretty much how I came into it when I started teaching preschool we learned about conscious discipline and I thought it was amazing and that I learned about compassionate communication and I thought it was even more amazing and that is how I came up with this concept of empowered play is that if we keep layering all these different amazing components and ideas that are out there then we can create a more organic and holistic way of working with our students that again just go beyond trying to help them be better at moving but understand the why and the how of that movement so um so yes I'm happy to share those those 24 character strengths are well established and researched and they're used again that they mentioned by positive psychology and if you just google them you can actually take like an online quiz them and it'll shoot it out to you to tell you what yours are so it gives you the opportunity to get a better understanding of who you are and what your strengths are and how you can relate that back to your students okay I think that's a rep and Farah is there anything else that you like to add I know thank you guys so much for having me and I hope that you guys got with you something about what you were looking for in terms of coming to the session this morning you're more than welcome to reach out to me my information is on the handout you welcome to email me I'm on Instagram and all those other great things so you can check out for more resources there's a meet tons of amazing PE teachers out there who are being very specific about you know how to move it so today we kind of looked at a global view in terms of how to move your curriculum online but you know if you're if you're looking for more specific recommendations there's tons of great resources out there Teachers Pay Teachers you know all these different places where you can get more specific help and guidance in terms of how to move specific things online all right thank you so much Farah and thank you everyone for attending today's webinar if you have any other questions as fara said you can send her an email and you can also send the email to conference at PhD candidate LCA we'll make sure to pass that through and once you leave today's webinar you will receive a follow-up email within 24 to 48 hours with a link to view a recording of today's session and also a copy of the handout who will be included in that email and lastly on the on behalf of Phe Canada or presenters and partners Human Kinetics and National Ballet School thank you for joining us today and have a great rest of your day