Encouraging value-centred PE lessons

Beyond simply honing students’ dribbling or passing skills during a football match, physical education (PE) teachers should design classes around values they want to teach, such as perseverance and co-operation. Crafting such “teachable” moments is something the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) wants to help PE teachers and coaches do better, with its new Game For Life toolkit. It will be launched on Monday at a Leadership Symposium organised by the SSC and SMU in conjunction with SMU’s Life Lessons Programme launch. The toolkit has been piloted at six schools – Admiralty Primary, Evergreen Secondary, Shuqun Secondary, Tampines Secondary, Temasek Secondary and SMU – since the start of the year. SMU Sports Union President Oh Zhan Yuan, 22, said that “the biggest limitation” is that facilitators have to be able to “do it well” in order to get their message across to students convincingly. Another limitation is that the results can only be seen in the long run, he added.

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