Physical Literacy for Adults - Week 12 and 11

Week 12

• Physical literacy empowers, is inclusive, and emphasizes the broad benefits of purposeful physical activity.
• Addressing significant challenges, like public misconceptions and systemic barriers, is essential for wider adoption.
• Practitioners play a pivotal role in supporting adults' physical literacy journeys.
• Active for life stage: options for physical activity.
• Competitive for life: competitive activity options
• Fit for life: non-competitive activity options

Week 11

• Adult Scoring Tools: evaluating physical literacy throughout life.
• Biographical Physical Literacy Mapping Summary: a tool to understand and chart physical literacy journeys.
• Practitioners or researchers trained in qualitative methods administer the tool.
• Primarily for adults and older youth to reflect on their experiences.
• Measured Elements: physical competence, motivation, confidence, knowledge, engagement (using narratives and life-event mapping).
• Scoring is non-scored; descriptive analysis and reflective insights provide evaluation.
• Qualitative insights provide valuable data, though are subjective and context dependent.
• IPLA Matrix Summary: to track progress in physical literacy, encourage lifelong activity, and celebrate achievements.
• Physical activity professionals (e.g., teachers, coaches) administer this tool.,
• Applicable to all ages.

Week 10

• Assessment: a set of actions to gather information about student learning (a tool used for learning, performance, and accuracy)
• Types of feedback (for learning, regarding expectations, criterion referenced, normative referenced, and ipsative referenced.)
• Validity, reliability, and consistent results are essential qualities of assessment.
• Goals of assessment: to provide feedback, guide program design, formulate research questions, and evaluate program outcomes, and population surveillance.

Week 9

• Indigenous sport pathway development: aims to provide a better experience relevant to cultural priorities, utilizing the medicine wheel.
• Participant pathway one: active start
• Participant pathway two: active for life
• North American Indigenous games include archery, lacrosse, kayaking, and others.
• First games held in 1990 in Edmonton.
• Artic winter games.

Week 8

• Active start (ages 0-6): provides enjoyable movement experiences, encompassing structured and unstructured play, and focusing on natural environments.
• FUNdamentals (ages 6-9): emphasizes fundamental movement skills and supportive environments, promoting participation.
• Types of play (e.g., freestyle, building, mirroring, muddy boots, outofits the box, formal), with an emphasis on physical activity, problem solving, creativity, and social skills.
• Benefits of risky play, such as thrilling and exiting experiences
• Creating safe play spaces.

Week 7

• LTD framework purpose: enables optimal participation in physical activity for everyone.

Week 6

• Current physical literacy interventions occur in schools, sports clubs, and early childhood centers, often in the form of workshops.
• This type of intervention should consider all elements and lifespan views, and incorporate appropriate gender equity considerations.

Week 5

• Element of physical literacy: motivation, confidence, knowledge, and understanding (with focus on the hall of shame elements, eliminating stationary people, and emphasizing fun).

Week 4

• Physical competence involves the ability to successfully deploy skills through fundamental, locomotor, manipulative, and non-manipulative movements.
• Stages of development include reflexive, preadapted, fundamental motor patterns, context-specific motor skills, and skillfulness.
• Development of motor patterns, force production, critical instant, and recovery and follow-through processes are discussed.
• Stages of movement range from initial to proficient.
• Why we need physical literacy: health benefits, Kretchmer perspectives, climate change, meaningful experiences (and human freedoms), daily physical activity, purposeful physical activity, and physical pursuit.

Week 3

• Importance of physical literacy, focusing on health benefits, experiences, identity, and human freedom.
• Physical activity, resulting from skeletal muscles, leads to an increased energy expenditure.
• Various categories of physical activity (daily, purposeful, and pursuit) are detailed across different age groups (4 years to adults).

Week 2

• Physical literacy encompasses confidence, motivation, physical competence, knowledge, and understanding, emphasizing the importance of taking responsibility for physical activities throughout life.
• Historical context of physical literacy, including its use in the U.S. Army corps in the 1880s, and its application to address active lifestyles in the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Three philosophical tenants of physical literacy: existentialism, phenomenology, and monism.
• Key attributes of physical literacy: desire to participate, confidence, movement efficiency and effectiveness, movement awareness, improved performance and well-being, ability to plan and implement an active lifestyle.

Week 1

• Kinesiology is the study of human movement, encompassing biomechanics, sociology, physiology, and medicine.