Research Impact: This article is co-written by teacher educators and pre-service teachers, and shares practical examples of how to design and enact a ‘One Good Idea’ project titled: ‘How We Can All Be Allies’. This […]
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Publication: Embedding assessment in learning experiences: Enacting the principles of instructional alignment in physical education teacher education
Research Impact: This paper focuses on interrogating ‘why’ and ‘how’ assessment can be effectively embedded in the delivery of learning experiences. That is, assessment as a means to engage students in the learning process rather […]
Publication: The perceived needs of teacher educators as they strive to implement curriculum change
Research Impact: The focus of this study was to explore teacher educators’ experiences as they prepared preservice teachers to implement a new physical education curriculum, and to identify their professional needs to support this work. […]
The challenge of teaching ‘pedagogy of aquatics’ on an online platform (Part 2): Dylan Scanlon & Claire Walsh
Welcome back to Part 2 of our blog! To recap, we are focusing on the online space of teaching pedagogy of aquatics. Below we work through our rethinking and redesigning thought-process and share our ideas […]
The challenge of teaching ‘pedagogy of aquatics’ on an online platform (Part 1) – Dylan Scanlon & Claire Walshe
As we re-enter the next academic semester, physical education teacher educators are in a process of translating their usual face-to-face teaching into online material which can be used in a fully online or blended learning […]
Changing Times and a Renewed Focus on Wellbeing – Claire Walsh
‘Wellbeing Walsh’ is a name which has been given to me over the past number of years. It is fitting as my PhD research relates to the introduction of the new Wellbeing curriculum within Physical […]
PESS goes Stateside. Claire Walsh
At the end of the autumn semester, a contingent from the PESS department in UL travelled to the United States to present at the SHAPE America PETE/HETE conference. SHAPE (Society of Health and Physical Educators) […]
Equality Games 2018 at the University of Limerick – Shauna Molloy
On Friday, 20th April, 3rd year Physical Education (PE) students from the University of Limerick (UL) held the inaugural Equality Games. 6th class pupils from the following Limerick schools – St Patrick’s Boys, St. Patrick’s Girls and the Gaelscoil, travelled to the University campus to participate on the […]
Historic launch of Leaving Certificate Physical Education and Senior Cycle Physical Education – Dylan Scanlon
On the 22nd Feburary, 2018, Claire Walsh and Dylan Scanlon represented the Physical Education and Sport Sciences Department at a historic day for physical education in Ireland as Minister of Education, Richard Bruton, launched phase […]
Applied Studies Coordinator … ‘eh so what does that involve???’ Claire Walsh
It has been over a year since I started working in the Physical Education and Sport Sciences (PESS) department at the University of Limerick (UL), and I still get asked ‘so what is it that […]
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