The School Sport Unit is proud to support the iPLAY Project – an evidence-based teacher professional development research program aimed at improving the quality of PE and school sport in NSW primary schools. iPLAY provides teachers with the skills, strategies and high-quality resources to conduct quality PE and school sport lessons and to support their students to become more active during and outside of class time.
Teachers learn iPLAY through a mix of face-to-face and online learning, along with individual feedback provided by an experienced mentor. iPLAY has been shown to improve teacher confidence and increase student physical activity and fitness levels.
Key benefits of iPLAY:
- increase health, physical activity, academic performance and wellbeing of your students
- no cost to your school
- free lesson planning resources via the iPLAY website and mobile app
- learn when you like with purpose-built, interactive, online learning platform
- personal feedback and mentoring for all teachers from an experienced PE teacher
- easy to fit into busy TPL calendars with flexible delivery of workshops and mentoring sessions
- high quality content developed by the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at ACU, the University of Newcastle and the Department of Education
- improve quality of PE without having to take time away from literacy and numeracy.
Free lesson plans and resources
All teachers can create high-quality lessons and they don’t have to start from scratch. iPLAY has designed hundreds of activities that teachers can use to deliver effective, engaging PE and sport lessons. In the attached PDF, you’ll find a lesson we’ve created using the resources from the iPLAY research program.
To learn more about the program visit the website iPLAY.org.au, or you can contact admin@iplay.org.au