Our Speaker Lineup
ACHPER QLD is pleased to welcome our engaging presenters to help motivate and educate in our general sessions and breakout workshops.
Our speaker's include:
Michael English
A Gubi Gubi man from the Sunshine Coast, Michael has been teaching HPE for 5 and a half years. Michael believes that well embedded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives are important for all students and that they align with trauma informed practices.
Michael's presentation - A non-tokenistic approach to embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, will look at ways to embed A&TSI games, perspectives and learning styles into your HPE units. There is a strong focus on Australian Curriculum alignment and AITSL standards 1.4 and 2.4.
Susan Wilson-Gahan
Susan is an Education Lecturer at USQ, with UG and PG qualifications in PE and Health Sciences. She is currently writing the health education chapters in ‘Health and Physical Education, Preparing Educators for the Future’ 4th Ed. with Cambridge University Press. In 2020 she published “HPE: Navigating the Chasm of Policy, Practice and Management to Enact the Intended Curriculum and Meet the Needs of 21st Century Learners.
In her presentation, Yes you can teach health education, Susan hopes to encourage Primary school educators to take up the ‘challenge’ of providing space for health learning in the crowded curriculum. She will work through some ideas for providing learning opportunities in the Personal, Social and Community Health strand through purposeful connection with Movement and Physical Activity and other learning areas.
Amanda Derbyshire and Dr Brodie Ward
Amanda is a Sport and Exercise Scientist and Research Associate at the University of Western Australia. Amanda has overseen the development, delivery and rollout of KIDDO since its inception in 2014 to where it is now with over 800 schools across Australia utilising the program. Amanda is an advocate for research translation, and has contributed to the development of evidence based physical activity programs for children, as well as providing professional development to physical educators, early childhood educators, and allied health professionals.
Dr Brodie Ward holds a research and teaching position in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia. His research interests are motor development and physical activity throughout early childhood, with a particular focus on building the capacity of educators to develop physically literacy.
Teaching & Assessing Fundamental Movement Skills
Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) are such a critical component of children’s physical development but assessing them accurately and efficiently is one of the biggest challenges for teachers. This session looks at the latest research behind Fundamental Movement Skill development and assessment in early childhood and what role this has to play in physical literacy.
The session will explore different tools available and some of the ways that technology is being utilised to make assessment and reporting as easy as possible for educators. See the KIDDO Challenge, a validated tool for the assessment of Fundamental Movement Skill development, in action and have a turn using it yourself. The KIDDO Challenge allows teachers to assess, track progress and report to parents with ease and is a powerful tool to engage parents in their child’s physical development.
The session also looks at how schools across Australia are using the KIDDO Challenge to improve their FMS programs