26C. 6563.4, PE Central, Introduction to Teaching Personal & Social Responsibility

Course Purpose

The purpose of this course is to introduce the TPSR model to physical educators, enabling them to successfully implement it into their physical education classes.

Course Description

This course is an introduction to Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility, otherwise known as TPSR. Dr. Don Hellison developed the TPSR “model”. It came to be as a result of teaching underserved high school student’s physical education with the goal of building character. TPSR teaches your students to take responsibility for their behavior choices.

The course is designed to give the student the tools to implement TPSR into their lessons and to make it the culture of their classroom. In the course, students learn what TPSR is, why it is important to teach, how to assess and implement it. Students will read seven chapters, answer reflective questions, design lessons and create an action plan which will prepare them to implement TPSR. Students will learn what the TPSR awareness levels look like, and why they are important to both the teacher and student in the physical education classroom. Reading a blog on designing successful lessons will prepare students to design engaging lessons that introduce the TPSR levels to their physical education students.

Course Goals

On completion of this course learners will be able to:

• design engaging lessons that introduce and/or reteach the TPSR awareness levels
• design assessments for TPSR
• communicate to students, parents and colleagues what TPSR is and why it is important
• plan a course of action to implement TPSR into their physical education classes