Recently we (Antonio, Ann and Dylan) have been selected as the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences winners of the Team-Teaching Excellence Award. Despite these turbulent times, and thanks to the collective investment into this […]
Tag: Dylan Scanlon
‘pose pause pounce bounce’: Thinking creatively & differently about teaching the wellbeing indicators
Ross Wallace is a practicing teacher and a Professional Masters of Educational (physical education) PESS graduate, and Dylan Scanlon is a PhD Researcher in PESS; both of us have an interest in enacting curriculum policy […]
Publication: Applying research to practice in school physical education
Research Impact Summary: This paper provides useful and realistic guidelines and user-friendly step-by-step templates and examples to follow for teachers accessing, reading, and applying research to practice in a manageable way. It is our hope […]
Publication: Supporting student engagement & partnership in higher education decision-making during the pandemic
Research Impact : This paper, which is part of a Special Issue on ‘The Impact of COVID-19 on Irish Higher Education System’, reflects on the experiences of student and staff team members at the National […]
Publication: Teacher agency in enacting physical education in a period of curriculum change
Research Impact: This paper explores the role of teacher agency in one teacher’s enactment of a new school subject (Leaving Certificate Physical Education). The paper presents three teaching episodes whereby the process of achieving […]
Publication: An integrated blended learning approach for PE teacher education programmes
Research Impact: When introducing blended learning in a (physical education) teacher education programme, we suggest designing an aligned and integrated approach structured in blocks, where all instructional components are interconnected and informing each other, enhancing […]
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 […]
Publication: The (mis)alignment between young people’s collective PA experience & P.E. on curriculum development in Ireland
Research Impact Summary: In the context of the redevelopment of the primary curriculum and the enactment of the Junior Cycle Framework, this publication explores young people’s voice with regards to their experiences of collective physical […]
‘Tweaking’ a blended learning approach to increase student engagement and embed formative assessment tasks – Dylan Scanlon
The current Covid-19 pandemic has greatly influenced on our teaching and learning at higher education. This influence has shifted our teaching from a face-to-face environment / blended learning environment to a fully online environment; a […]
