“PSI4QPE” as a Personalised System of Instruction for Teaching Quality Physical Education in Early Childhood

Introduction, Aims and Purpose: Our project titled a Personalised System of Instruction (PSI) (Keller & Sherman, 1974) for quality Physical Education (PSI4QPE) was an evidence-based approach to teach Year 1 and 2 students QPE at five ACT Government schools. Although internationally PSI has been used extensively to teach PE, to our knowledge it has never been used before with students this age. The study purpose was to improve classroom teacher confidence through teaching a notion of QPE as the intersection of pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment (Penney et al., 2009). We also sought to find out if a specialist graduate primary teacher, specialising in Health and Physical Education (HPE) could successfully assume an in-situ teacher professional development and mentoring role in implementing our approach. Further, we explored the effectiveness of GoPro camera recordings ‘through the eyes of the teacher’ as an ongoing professional learning intervention for the classroom teacher participants in the study.