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How you can improve physical literacy delivery
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Creating a Quality Physical Literacy Experience
Sport for Life and Dr. Dean Kriellaars, with support from the Government of Ontario, have developed a series of short videos (one to six minutes in duration), designed to help you create a quality physical literacy experience for your participants in your practice or programs. Each video focuses on key components to assist you in understanding physical literacy and how it is important to consider in your programming implementation. Supplementary information and resources are provided after each video.
The videos are batched into two sections: Section One provides background information for developing a quality physical literacy experience, and Section Two provides information to assist you in delivering a quality physical literacy experience.
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Physical Literacy:
A Global Environmental Scan
The Aspen Institute's Project Play recently released the first-ever global scan of physical literacy movements across the world. Physical Literacy: A Global Environmental Scan overviews 10 countries and offers deep dives of the three with the most established efforts. Countries included: Australia, Canada, England, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Venezuela, Wales. The report has since informed a comprehensive physical literacy plan for the United States, also by the Aspen Institute.
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How I Endorsed
Canada's Physical Literacy Consensus Statement
It's been more than three months since the Vancouver Declaration on Physical Literacy was made at the International Physical Literacy Conference 2015 in Vancouver, and since then Canada's Physical Literacy Consensus Statement has been distributed widely and accepted by many!
And it's not too late to take part if you haven't engaged with the statement yet. In this blog post, Gary Shelton, Executive Director of the Edmonton Sport Council, tells us why he supports the Declaration and explains how he spread the word:
". . . I physically signed the Declaration while at IPLC2015, not for the chance to win a Fitbit (as was offered by ParticipACTION), but because I believe in Sport for Life (S4L) and that being active for life is based upon being physically literate..."
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My Personal Best
The My Personal Best program was created as part of the Pan Am/Parapan Am Kids Program as a legacy of the 2015 Games in Ontario. Initiated in January 2014, with support from the Government of Ontario, it introduced the PLAY tools - Physical Literacy Assessment for Youth tools - into Ontario's After School Program. The focus is to support after school managers and front line staff in the delivery of the PLAY Fun, PLAY Basic and PLAY Self tools which provide valuable feedback to the staff on the current physical literacy levels of kids in their programs. As of July 2015, close to 20,000 kids have been assessed over two time periods using the PLAY tools, increasing the physical literacy knowledge of after school staff and assisting them in making their physical activity programs more effective!
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Upcoming Physical Literacy Events
Want to learn more about physical literacy initiatives, practices and programs? Looking for some advice on how to better deliver physical literacy programming in your activity or community? Check out these upcoming events...
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