A new era of PE Requires a New Kind of Teacher

Instead of optimal team selection, an effective PE program now focuses on inclusion and empathy.

We need to find a new way of looking at sport. We need to work out how to engage those who are traditionally non-participants and discover how we can fulfil their needs through a medium they’ve never thought to engage with.

There’s no easy solution. Sport isn’t for everyone and there’s no step-by-step guide for engagement. But if we find a new way to view our students, one that will help us to shape our sport program for the new era, we’ll practice and refine it over time and, as we get better at it, we’ll change the way we see sport forever.

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Director of Performance Pathways

Martin Brockman is Director of Brockman Athletics, providing teacher training and track and field teaching resources for schools around the world. Representing Great Britain in the decathlon for almost a decade, Martin achieved a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Dehli, 2010. On retiring from his international career, he moved to the world-leading Aspire Academy in Qatar as the Head of Athlete Development where he designed and implemented the academy athletics program from talent identification through to international athletics.