This week’s podcast explores the theoretical shift that occurred between the first and second drafts of Mosston’s seminal book Teaching Physical Education. It argues that in moving away from a hierarchy of teaching styles against which teachers might measure themselves, the spectrum of teaching styles made a 180-degree turn. It moved away from an ideology that hoped to make every child independent in the decision-making process to one that prescribed certain outcomes to different styles of teaching. It moved from a place that positioned teachers as lifelong learning to one that positioned them as end-users of approaches to teaching that almost guaranteed the outcomes that they sought.
