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The venues for the following workshops have yet to be confirmed. If you wish to be kept informed of the venue please e-mail the contact given for each county.

Workshop Details

Team challenges workshop

Team challenges revolve around problems posed to a group who must then determine possible solutions. Problems are designed to challenge groups to collectively and cooperatively find solutions to the problem. Generally the problems involve both cognitive and physical effort. We have divided team challenges into three categories which we believe are consistent with resources in the adventure field.

·        Team challenges that do not require equipment to solve the problem

·        Low level initiatives that are associated with solving problems involving equipment placed within 0-4’ of the ground

·        High level initiatives that include high ropes courses and elements that are suspended from the air (above 4’ off the ground)

Workshop 1 and 2 will provide ideas for both experience participating in team challenges and low level initiatives. The second workshop will build on concepts and themes introduced in the first. Due to the thorough set of materials that are provided in the JCPE Guidelines for Teachers, we will focus on those that are not found in JCPE and some of our favorites.

Dance for post-primary student workshop

Dance is looked upon as an artistic-creative aspect of the physical education programme. We find that through the teaching of dance students really appreciate the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains in physical education. We as teachers find it difficult to get these areas across to our students in a modern way that grabs the pupils.

This workshop will provide ideas for both creating schemes of work and coming up with Dance pieces and music that will develop a positive lesson. We will also look at the JCPE Folk dance section and how you can use it in your class.