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This project aimed to incorporate Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) into Health and Physical Education curriculum in ACT schools. This pedagogical approach recognises the importance of incorporating social and emotional learning in a variety of contexts, including in physical education, in youth sport programs, and in community-based physical activity. TPSR recognises that movement is a medium through which learning outcomes such as goal setting, perseverance, relationship development, cooperation, emotional regulation and leadership can be taught.

Associate Professor Kevin Richards and Associate Professor John Williams worked with teachers in ACT schools to incorporate personal and social responsibility education in their physical education lessons. They provided professional development for teachers and supported them to develop units of work that incorporated TPSR.

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility enables learning in the affective domain to supplement more traditional physical education learning which tends to occur in the physical domain. This helps students to develop personal and social capabilities that support them throughout their life to meaningfully contribute to society.

Teachers are supported to deliver the Movement and Physical Activity Strand of the Australian Curriculum for Health and Physical Education in a way that approaches physical education as much more than teaching traditional ‘skills and drills’. It provides opportunities to foster social responsibility, teamwork and positive values.

By scaffolding teachers to deliver quality physical education through TPSR, the project seeks to contribute to the sustainability of Health and Physical Education, which has historically been marginalised compared to the other more ‘serious’ key learning areas.