This section includes sample lesson plans that model lesson planning and instruction from a Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy (CRRP) and disability-centred movement approach. They will help to enhance educators' capacity to program plan for Health & Physical Education (H&PE) with a CRRP and disability-centred movement lens.
Sample lesson plans incorporate the following key elements:
- Foster an inclusive physical education environment for all students.
- Provide high-quality and meaningful learning experiences based on students’ individual strengths and needs.
- Empower all students in their learning experience by making meaningful connections between school, culture, and their lived experiences.
Sample lesson plans incorporate the following key components:
- Considerations for Lesson Planning: includes components to carefully think through to guide planning for diversity and inclusion. For example, locations in which the activity will occur, curriculum strand and topic, key considerations based on identified student strengths and needs, and available support.
- Lesson Design:
- Three-Part Lesson Design: illustrates relevant CRRP teaching and learning strategies, as well as instructional, environmental, and assessment strategies for students with disabilities to maximize student engagement in inclusive and meaningful physical education experiences.
- Ideas for Extension: includes equipment options, various group sizes and configurations, variations on ways to play, and extensions for continued learning to maximize the challenge, engagement, and participation of every student in a meaningful way.
- Sample Teacher Prompts: includes question prompts to help students make connections to skills they are developing for lifelong healthy, active living, and to empower students in their learning experience by making meaningful connections between school, culture, and their lived experiences. Sample student responses are also included.
- CRRP and Disability-Centred Movement Strategies Embedded in the Lesson: highlights the various components embedded in the lesson design and instruction to model both a CRRP and disability-centred movement approach; addresses identified student considerations to support their strengths and needs, to ensure all aspects of the learning are accessible, and that all students feel respected, valued, and included.
Note: Although these sample lessons incorporate strategies specific to the students identified in the Considerations for Lesson Planning, they are appropriate for all students.
The identified strategies in the “CRRP and Disability-Centred Movement Strategies Embedded in the Lesson” section are embedded and modelled in the lesson. However, these are not the only considerations when programming for diversity and inclusion. Educators are encouraged to explore the other sections of this resource and Ophea’s Disability-Centred Movement: Supporting Inclusive Physical Education resource for further learning about embedding CRRP and disability-centred movement approaches into their existing practice.
Sample Lessons