1. Translating Physical Literacy
ICSEMIS 2012
Glasgow
Translating Physical Literacy
into Practice
Dr. Len Almond Physical Education Consultant
Formerly Foundation Director of the British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health.

2. Starting Point
The key features of physical literacy need to be made accessible to the unformed and uninformed minds of young people as well as adults, whose ability to evaluate life plans and make choices about what to do with their lives is not yet developed or may not have been considered.

3. If we are to promote Physical Literacy across the lifespan from the early years (0-5 years) to adults in later life (60 years and onwards), how we engage with individuals a matter of great concern.

4. Enabling Conditions Engagement with purposeful physical pursuits
Initiation into the very best of purposeful physical pursuits
Demonstration how engagement can enrich, transform lives and enhance the quality of one’s live through
Learning to love being active
Good experiences and better experiences for all young people
Making progress
Positive Environments that enable 
successful engagement
learning to take place
motivation to engage

5. Leading to Learning to make informed choices Making a Commitment
They need to acquire the power to make choices of a certain kind (informed and rational) and arrived at in a certain way (non-coercive and non-indoctrinatory).
This requires the allocation of sufficient time in the curriculum for young people to explore and recognise the constraints on their capacity to fit purposeful physical pursuits into their lives.
Making a Commitment
Puts aside time and makes the effort to engage
Seeks out opportunities regularly to take part in purposeful physical pursuits

6. That generates a Commitment to engagement in purposeful physical pursuits and Physical Literacy that enriches lives and enables a person to flourish.

7. Supported by The pedagogical process is about: Practical knowledge of:
Nurturing (creating a caring and positive learning environment)
Cultivating ways of engaging with young people, working together, shaping relationships, nourishing them.
Practical knowledge of:
Engaging and connecting with learners’ interest.
Simple basic instructions – they know exactly what to do
When to intervene and focus (or extend) the learning
Motivational strategies
When to move on, go back a step or two or completely change tack.

8. Pedagogy of Engagement
Reaching out
Connecting (Establish a connection with individual students that enables learning to take place)
Engaging (Engage with them productively with enthusiasm and with empathy)
Drawing out (Draw them out with challenges that excite, engage their interest and allow them to develop with confidence.)
Stretch (Stretch their capabilities, interests, love of learning and love of being active.)

9. Problem Posing
How can we enable teachers to implement an authentic approach to Physical Literacy that informs their practice?