Level Up: Strategies to Increase Student Engagement Using Gamification in Physical Education

Strategies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Collin Brooks ◽  
Jaimie McMullen
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Physical Education

scholarly journals Implementing Curriculum Within a Context of Fear and Disengagement

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine D. Ennis ◽  
Donetta J. Cothran ◽  
Keren S. Davidson ◽  
Susan J. Loftus ◽  
Lynn Owens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
Education Data ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
High School Physical Education ◽  
Innovative Curriculum ◽  
To Receive

The purpose of this study was to examine situational and personal contextual factors that teachers and students reported as enhancing or minimizing student engagement in urban high school physical education classes. In this ethnographic study, 21 physical education teachers and their students in six high schools were observed, and all teachers at six schools and 51 students at five schools were interviewed to examine their perspectives on physical education. Data were analyzed using constant comparison. Findings suggested that students found some tasks to be embarrassing, boring, and irrelevant. Some students preferred to receive a failing grade rather than participate. All participants reported a sense of fear and alienation in the school or class environments. Students, however, described several teachers who created contexts of engagement in these schools. These teachers connected personally with students and worked to provide an innovative curriculum that students felt was relevant and worthwhile.

Encounters in a marginalised subject: The experiential challenges faced by Tasmanian Health and Physical Education teachers

2020 ◽  
pp. 000494412093496
Author(s):  
Vaughan Cruickshank ◽  
Brendon Hyndman ◽  
Kira Patterson ◽  
Paul Kebble
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Health And Physical Education ◽  
Years Of Teaching Experience ◽  
Primary Mission

Subjects such as Health and Physical Education (HPE) can be marginalised in schools because they are construed as less academically rigorous and less important to the primary mission of education. Teachers of all subjects face challenges, yet, teaching a marginalised subject can result in additional challenges for HPE teachers. Previous research has noted these challenges; however, less is known about how these challenges vary according to student age and teacher experience. This study used quantitative survey methods to ascertain which challenges are the most difficult for Australian HPE teachers, and whether this difficulty varies according to their teaching experience and the ages of their students. Findings indicated that the year level of students taught by HPE teachers was significantly associated with student engagement and isolation within their schools. Years of teaching experience was significantly associated with challenges in teaching students with special needs, with more experienced teachers rating this area as less of a challenge than less experienced teachers.

Student (Dis)Engagement and Need-Supportive Teaching Behavior: A Multi-Informant and Multilevel Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Van den Berghe ◽  
Isabel B. Tallir ◽  
Greet Cardon ◽  
Nathalie Aelterman ◽  
Leen Haerens
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
Teaching Behavior ◽  
Need Support ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Causality Orientations

Starting from self-determination theory, we explored whether student engagement/disengagement relates to teachers’ need support and whether this relationship is moderated by teachers’ causality orientations. A sample of 2004 students situated in 127 classes taught by 33 physical education teachers participated in the study. Both teachers and students reported on students’ (dis)engagement, allowing investigation of the proposed relationships both at the student and teacher level. Most of the variance in need support was at the student level, but there was also between-teacher and between-class variance in need support. Engagement related to more need support, but only at the student level. In total, few moderation effects were found. Teachers with a relatively low controlled orientation were more need supportive when perceiving their students as emotionally and behaviorally engaged. By making teachers aware of these dynamics, automatic responses to student engagement can be better thought out. Recommendations for future research are discussed.

An Ecological Analysis of a Sport Education Season

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Hastie
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Social System ◽  
Sport Education ◽  
Ecological Analysis ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Curriculum Model ◽  
Managerial Task ◽  
High Level ◽  
Managerial System

This study provides an ecological analysis of a sport education season. Through the examination of the tasks and accountability operating in this season, it was determined that the high level of enthusiastic student engagement was due to the presence of three vectors, all of which make positive contributions to sustaining the program of action. These vectors include the teacher’s managerial task system, the student social system, and the content-embedded accountability inherent in the curriculum model. Sport education provides a multidimensional program of action, in contrast to more traditional physical education settings, where teachers either push students through the curriculum with strong external accountability as a way of achieving and sustaining order, or retreat to a curricular zone of safety and negotiate minimum student work for cooperation in the managerial system.

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