a real passion area of myself and my
team that work in the health and
physical education faculty to be able to
talk to you about the benefits of good
structured physical education lessons
and physical activity on improving
academic achievement concentration and
focus I did a paper on my master’s
degree I had that focused on this and
the outcomes were significant one of the
biggest benefits we’ve got here with
increased physical education lessons for
students of all abilities and all
talents and all ages is some of these
benefits here so we’re looking at reject
reductions in stress improvement in
social skills focusing on improvements
in moods and behavior
one of the biggest theories we’re
looking at is increases in student
performance and later on I’ll
demonstrate some of those outcomes we’ve
had from interviews with teachers here
at the college over a four-year period
about that the perceptions that they’ve
had about students coming back from
physical education lessons here at the
college and the benefits that they’ve
seen from those students in terms of
their focus
another area there is that it focuses on
improvements in attention and memory and
the bottom line there’s probably the
newest area that we’re focusing on at
the moment given the trends with issues
with mental health with younger
adolescents and the issues that are
facing them across the globe one of the
biggest things about the improvements
with physical activity and the increase
in the amount of physical activity is
that does assist those students in
control measures and how to better adapt
with the natural endorphins releases
that come from physical activity and and
better controlled mental health issues
so my apologies so there was a study
done with the British Columbia that
focused on physical activity rigorous
figures physical activity and also
looking at the benefits on the
development and these were quite
sophisticated studies looking at the
development and the enlargement of the
hippocampus which focuses on the area
with verbal memory this is a really big
scientific breakthrough that’s being
looked at for the last possibly 10 years
and we’ve taken this on board and I’ve
had the the privilege also at presenting
its State National
conferences at attribute foundation the
Australian Council for health physical
education and research on the benefits
of this we’ve had students across many
spectrums that have come back after
lessons saying how much better that they
feel these studies are just confirming
that another really comprehensive study
coming from the Harvard Medical School
in the States one of the world leading
educational institutions focused on
areas with the prefrontal cortex and the
medial temporal cortex those that did
activities had as you can see greater
volume in those areas when the brain has
capacity with greater volume it has
better attentional focus it has better
capacity to respond to stimulus it has
better capacity to deal with the whole
range of things indirect benefit from
physical activity and increases in
physical activity has so many benefits
and finally what you’re about to see
from a few years back as we’ve
structured specific lessons in our
classes that focus on students engaging
both areas of the brain the left
hemisphere and the right hemisphere the
more we can do that in tandem the better
the development in the brain and you’ll
see the activity here of a prep student
from a few years ago just have a good
focus on what they’re doing with their
spacial awareness across the line here
on the beam and also addressing a task
so in front of this June and there’s a
numeracy task which is focusing
specifically on the left side of the
brain engagement in isolation will be
only utilizing the left side of the
brain as well as focusing spatial and
moving forward which is the right side
of the brain so on its own doing those
individual tasks on their own produces
isolated use of the left and the right
side brain the more that we can engage
activities like this structuring it
correctly and efficiently so that we can
engage both hemispheres of the brain
provides greater stimulation greater
growth in the hippocampus and again
naturally the students are going to have
much more capacity with their academic
academic achievement they focus better
in class again going back to the natural
endorphin release that comes from
physical activity both prior to heavy
engagement in school work and for
recovery purposes absolutely fundamental
the next activity is an older student
slightly older student that does a a
literacy again left side brain logic
literacy mathematics all those areas
crucial literacy is crucial one of the
fundamentals in improving student
achievement across the board is the
fundamentals skipping have a look at
identifying missing vowels in certain
words also whilst trying to be spatially
got a little bit stuck on the last one
but said I could I could get it but I
just couldn’t quite they knew what it
was they couldn’t quite say activities
have we structured different activities
we don’t just run like skipping we don’t
just write and this isn’t the be-all and
end-all but the students when you speak
to them like they they just stand up my
brain just feels so alert after doing
this so alert and we do this with our
preps all the way through to year 12 so
alert and we do this with our preps all
the way through to year 12 and the
overwhelming response from my colleagues
and also from from the students is
exactly that they just they just think
they just feel so alert again that’s the
natural endorphins indirectly developing
brain capacity when activities are
designed to use both hemispheres of the
brain not in isolation so they’re
sitting in class doing that logical work
mathematical work literacy a whole range
of tasks you know drama and then also
using spatial imagination spatial
awareness with games so we cross link
this is just an example and they range
from all young kids if you have
opportunities in your own time to do
this with your students absolutely
fantastic
this activity set up here is a more
complex one where kids are jogging on
the spot for example and they’ve got to
go through and identify factors of two
and they’ve got a two and someone
circles quite a difficult task to do
especially whilst you’re jogging on the
spot or along the line or skipping or
doing a whole range of activities all
the way to the finish that was an
example of one of the ones we did with
our younger students where the students
just have to identify the missing vowel
it can change in design construct but
this is all whilst the kids are studying
their work in PE the survey here that
came out on the left is a two page
comprehensive document that was gone
through and and just to show you that
it’s probably little bit hard to see the
moment but just to show you like an
example when teachers was
completed this the results in the next
page will be it will astound you you’ll
these are genuine teachers over a
four-year period on the right side here
is just an example of the different
process that are involved and required
by the brain so the more that you can
interrelate those two the better the
development so I’ll just show you here
they’re the results fairly fairly
significant and that was taken over a
four-year period 2009 or through to 2012
and the teachers this is as soon as the
students came back from class their
perception on the benefit of physical
activity physical education lessons it’s
all about balance the whole thing’s
about balance so clearly a lot more
focused this is not the students this is
actually the teachers how they perceive
their students in the class so really
comprehensive so in closing real
passionate area I encourage you strongly
to engage with where possible with your
own children in activities like this
there is so much to learn about the
brain there is a huge focus now on euro
plasticity in the field of neuroscience
I’m a health and physical education
specialist have been teaching for twenty
years fifteen years here at the college
absolutely love the college I think that
so dynamic and so innovative in so many
ways but things areas like this that are
all new I’ve spoken to neurologists I’ve
spoken to neuroscientists and they
believe truly that what we’re trying to
do here is going to only benefit
students now and in the future so thank you for your time
team that work in the health and
physical education faculty to be able to
talk to you about the benefits of good
structured physical education lessons
and physical activity on improving
academic achievement concentration and
focus I did a paper on my master’s
degree I had that focused on this and
the outcomes were significant one of the
biggest benefits we’ve got here with
increased physical education lessons for
students of all abilities and all
talents and all ages is some of these
benefits here so we’re looking at reject
reductions in stress improvement in
social skills focusing on improvements
in moods and behavior
one of the biggest theories we’re
looking at is increases in student
performance and later on I’ll
demonstrate some of those outcomes we’ve
had from interviews with teachers here
at the college over a four-year period
about that the perceptions that they’ve
had about students coming back from
physical education lessons here at the
college and the benefits that they’ve
seen from those students in terms of
their focus
another area there is that it focuses on
improvements in attention and memory and
the bottom line there’s probably the
newest area that we’re focusing on at
the moment given the trends with issues
with mental health with younger
adolescents and the issues that are
facing them across the globe one of the
biggest things about the improvements
with physical activity and the increase
in the amount of physical activity is
that does assist those students in
control measures and how to better adapt
with the natural endorphins releases
that come from physical activity and and
better controlled mental health issues
so my apologies so there was a study
done with the British Columbia that
focused on physical activity rigorous
figures physical activity and also
looking at the benefits on the
development and these were quite
sophisticated studies looking at the
development and the enlargement of the
hippocampus which focuses on the area
with verbal memory this is a really big
scientific breakthrough that’s being
looked at for the last possibly 10 years
and we’ve taken this on board and I’ve
had the the privilege also at presenting
its State National
conferences at attribute foundation the
Australian Council for health physical
education and research on the benefits
of this we’ve had students across many
spectrums that have come back after
lessons saying how much better that they
feel these studies are just confirming
that another really comprehensive study
coming from the Harvard Medical School
in the States one of the world leading
educational institutions focused on
areas with the prefrontal cortex and the
medial temporal cortex those that did
activities had as you can see greater
volume in those areas when the brain has
capacity with greater volume it has
better attentional focus it has better
capacity to respond to stimulus it has
better capacity to deal with the whole
range of things indirect benefit from
physical activity and increases in
physical activity has so many benefits
and finally what you’re about to see
from a few years back as we’ve
structured specific lessons in our
classes that focus on students engaging
both areas of the brain the left
hemisphere and the right hemisphere the
more we can do that in tandem the better
the development in the brain and you’ll
see the activity here of a prep student
from a few years ago just have a good
focus on what they’re doing with their
spacial awareness across the line here
on the beam and also addressing a task
so in front of this June and there’s a
numeracy task which is focusing
specifically on the left side of the
brain engagement in isolation will be
only utilizing the left side of the
brain as well as focusing spatial and
moving forward which is the right side
of the brain so on its own doing those
individual tasks on their own produces
isolated use of the left and the right
side brain the more that we can engage
activities like this structuring it
correctly and efficiently so that we can
engage both hemispheres of the brain
provides greater stimulation greater
growth in the hippocampus and again
naturally the students are going to have
much more capacity with their academic
academic achievement they focus better
in class again going back to the natural
endorphin release that comes from
physical activity both prior to heavy
engagement in school work and for
recovery purposes absolutely fundamental
the next activity is an older student
slightly older student that does a a
literacy again left side brain logic
literacy mathematics all those areas
crucial literacy is crucial one of the
fundamentals in improving student
achievement across the board is the
fundamentals skipping have a look at
identifying missing vowels in certain
words also whilst trying to be spatially
got a little bit stuck on the last one
but said I could I could get it but I
just couldn’t quite they knew what it
was they couldn’t quite say activities
have we structured different activities
we don’t just run like skipping we don’t
just write and this isn’t the be-all and
end-all but the students when you speak
to them like they they just stand up my
brain just feels so alert after doing
this so alert and we do this with our
preps all the way through to year 12 so
alert and we do this with our preps all
the way through to year 12 and the
overwhelming response from my colleagues
and also from from the students is
exactly that they just they just think
they just feel so alert again that’s the
natural endorphins indirectly developing
brain capacity when activities are
designed to use both hemispheres of the
brain not in isolation so they’re
sitting in class doing that logical work
mathematical work literacy a whole range
of tasks you know drama and then also
using spatial imagination spatial
awareness with games so we cross link
this is just an example and they range
from all young kids if you have
opportunities in your own time to do
this with your students absolutely
fantastic
this activity set up here is a more
complex one where kids are jogging on
the spot for example and they’ve got to
go through and identify factors of two
and they’ve got a two and someone
circles quite a difficult task to do
especially whilst you’re jogging on the
spot or along the line or skipping or
doing a whole range of activities all
the way to the finish that was an
example of one of the ones we did with
our younger students where the students
just have to identify the missing vowel
it can change in design construct but
this is all whilst the kids are studying
their work in PE the survey here that
came out on the left is a two page
comprehensive document that was gone
through and and just to show you that
it’s probably little bit hard to see the
moment but just to show you like an
example when teachers was
completed this the results in the next
page will be it will astound you you’ll
these are genuine teachers over a
four-year period on the right side here
is just an example of the different
process that are involved and required
by the brain so the more that you can
interrelate those two the better the
development so I’ll just show you here
they’re the results fairly fairly
significant and that was taken over a
four-year period 2009 or through to 2012
and the teachers this is as soon as the
students came back from class their
perception on the benefit of physical
activity physical education lessons it’s
all about balance the whole thing’s
about balance so clearly a lot more
focused this is not the students this is
actually the teachers how they perceive
their students in the class so really
comprehensive so in closing real
passionate area I encourage you strongly
to engage with where possible with your
own children in activities like this
there is so much to learn about the
brain there is a huge focus now on euro
plasticity in the field of neuroscience
I’m a health and physical education
specialist have been teaching for twenty
years fifteen years here at the college
absolutely love the college I think that
so dynamic and so innovative in so many
ways but things areas like this that are
all new I’ve spoken to neurologists I’ve
spoken to neuroscientists and they
believe truly that what we’re trying to
do here is going to only benefit
students now and in the future so thank you for your time
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