Professional Development is available across almost all school teaching disciplines. Until now, courses helping you further your teaching abilities in Physical Education were not.

As a university student the subjects of physiology, outdoor organisation and basic biomechanics are taught within the PE unit of work. The rules, skills, drills and techniques of many of the specific sports that are asked of teachers to be taught to students are only touched on at best. This is where TIS comes in.

Most teachers of PE, whether they be primary classroom teachers who need to incorporate physical education into their weekly programme or specific high school PE teachers gain the majority of there expertise in teaching certain sports incidentally. By this we mean that they may have grown up playing tennis, may have even coached some tennis so tennis, by chance becomes a sport they can teach.

So what about the other seven sports that many schools require their teachers to teach throughout the course of a year? As a tennis player / coach do you know effective and enjoyable soccer drills? How about basketball? Would you like to know how to put together a series of engaging and fun lessons in all the sports you have to teach throughout the year? TIS can help you do this.

Dr Phillip Morgan is with the faculty of Education and Arts at the University of Newcastle. Along with Vibeke Hansen (Faculty of Health UNewc) they have written extensively on the need for better training of teachers in the subject of Physical Education. They talk with frequency about the need for quality PE teaching especially in regards to the current and worsening child obesity epidemic sweeping the developed world.

“Previous research has shown many teachers generally do not feel confident teaching PE (Xiang, Lowy and McBride, 2002). Lack of confidence, knowledge, and expertise has found to be related to the quality of PE teacher education teachers receive (Morgan and Bourke, 2005). Tremblay, Pella and Taylor (1996) found that lack of teacher preparation was the greatest barrier to quality PE programs… In Australia, most universities offer one or two compulsory courses in PE as part of the pre-service classroom teacher training.” (From: Classroom Teachers’ Perceptions of the Impact of Barriers to teaching PE on the Quality of Physical Education Programs. Phillip J Morgan and Vibeke Hansen, 2008)

All TIS courses have been developed in consultation with a wide range of experts in each sport, along with their associations and governing bodies. With this in mind you can be assured that the content of our courses is highly practical, engaging and easily adaptable to a variety of lesson scenarios.

Of course you may have specific needs for you or your staff when it comes to teaching better sport lessons. Why not click here and fill out an enquiry form where you can detail what you want for what age group and what sport and we’ll go about putting together the best PE professional development course possible.