It's not just IB SEHS. CIE IGCSE and AS PE and Sport teachers, take note!

In this week's blog post, I'm going to introduce you to our PE and Sport offering for International customers. 

In recent and coming weeks, I will be communicating a great deal about the new IB Sports, Exercise and Health Science (SEHS) courses that are now live on TheEverLearner.com. The IB is a major development for our team and for me and we are intrigued to see how our work may further pervade the international education sector.

If you are an international school interested in trying our new IB SEHS course completely for FREE until the end of 2024, feel free to apply for a free extended trial.

But we haven’t just been working on the IB Sports, Exercise and Health Science (SEHS) courses for international and independent schools. In fact, we have built three brand-new CIE AS PE courses as well as concluding a full course review of the CIE IGCSE PE course too.

CIE AS PE

Available as of now are the three units of the CIE AS PE course via TheEverLearner.com:

• CIE AS CIE AS Sport and Physical Education (8386) Content Areas 1-4 Anatomy, Physiology and Biomechanics
• CIE AS Sport and Physical Education (8386) Content Areas 5-8 Skill Acquisition and Learning
• CIE AS Sport and Physical Education (8386) Content Areas 9-12 Sociocultural Issues, Ethics, Deviance and Technology

All three units contain:

1. Video tutorials taught by me (James).
2. Quizzing in practice mode
3. Quizzing in test mode
4. Quizzing in checkpoint mode
5. Examining in practice mode
6. Examining in assessment mode
7. Examining in offline (printable) mode

For a little taster of my teaching, you may be interested to visit one of my lessons from content area 3:

Click the screenshot to watch the video

CIE IGCSE PE (0413)

The CIE IGCSE PE (0413) course has been live on TheEverLearner.com platform for a few years but this summer (2024) we conducted a full course review, where we re-recorded more than a third of the tutorials and rewrote around 500 quiz questions to replace those we have stripped out.

After working with the CIE IGCSE (0413) mark schemes, we had the sense that we had “overcooked” the AO2 skill and were, perhaps, publishing materials that stretched the student more than required. In the new version, every tutorial and question is honed on the exact AO1 and AO2 skills of the CIE IGCSE (0413) course specifically and we are confident that teachers will notice a big improvement in student experiences.

The complete picture for international schools? Not quite!

It’s tempting to suggest that we have completed the international school PE picture but this is not quite the case. Currently, for example, we are conducting a thorough exam analysis of the CIE IGCSE (0413) exam papers in preparation for writing ExamSimulator question and mark scheme content as well as writing the equivalent exam materials for both CIE AS PE and IB SEHS. Once this work is done, our focus will switch to the annual process of course review that my team and I are committed to.

Annual course review

IB SEHS, CIE AS PE and CIE IGCSE (0413), along with all of our courses on TheEverLearner.com are now subject to our annual course review process. Because our PE team has expanded from one full-time member (me) to four (Andy, Hannah, Kim and me), we now complete annual course reviews for all of our courses. This summer, for example, we have reviewed all GCSE PE courses, AQA and OCR A-level PE, BTEC Tech Award, OCR Nationals and BTEC Sport Level 3 units and have, in total, replaced well over 200 video tutorials with brand-new ones as well as stripping out and replacing thousands of quiz questions. Our main foci are:

• Course accuracy: ensuring that every word links directly to the exam-board specification and up-to-date mark schemes.
• Student experience: ensuring that we keep videos short and snappy and that quiz questions are as “quizzy” as possible to allow students to complete experiences in good time.

Therefore, our new IB Sports, Exercise and Health Science (SEHS), CIE AS PE and CIE IGCSE (0413) PE are not static objects. They are live, dynamic resource bases that improve continually. We believe this is the right way to guarantee that students and teachers have the best experiences possible.

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Have a wonderful day.

James