Todays guest is Ryan Ellis from The PE Umbrella Podcast
Ryan is a primary school teacher and provides P.E teacher training in the UK. His experience also includes football coaching in the USA and he is the founder of The PE Umbrella Podcast.
The 4 Umbrellas make up the backbone of what The PE Umbrella represents and stands for.
The Blue Umbrella – Physical Domain
The Green Umbrella – Cognitive (thinking) Domain
The Red Umbrella – Social Domain
The Purple Umbrella – Affective (emotional) Domain
“…It was in one of my early interviews with Bob Knipe that we hit on the topic of WHY I chose the name ‘The PE Umbrella’ for my podcast. My response was simply that PE covers so many aspects of life and skills, it was an Umbrella term for many things. Bob went one better than me. He suggested that he had imagined the term as a metaphor.
An Umbrella that children, and later adults would carry with them through their lives, containing skills and knowledge that protect them from the world around them and situations they may find themselves in, as a real umbrella shelters an individual from the rain.
Later, while mulling over this concept, I took it one step further, and instead of an umbrella that simply protects them, it is one they always add skills to, and can choose when to use these skills to tackle the world around them head on!
And so the 4 umbrellas was born. Each Umbrella representing one of the four domains of learning.