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Matt McGowan

Matt Magowan is a physical education teacher in Hanoi, Vietnam, specializing in International Baccalaureate primary PE and approaches like split-screen teaching.

Aug 6, 2026

10:58
I'm
10:58
sure he'll forgive you for that.
11:06
And he talked about how they'd gone through a curriculum renewal process and they were now teaching through their values of their curriculum.
11:15
So he's talking about how he might stop a lesson and talk to a student and talk about how they were demonstrating courage.
11:22
So it's not just about talking about the great game.
11:25
Will's demonstrating some split screen teaching there by stopping the game and highlighting these other underlying layers of the river.
11:35
Which I think as a subject, we claim that we have learning within all these different domains and it could be really tricky to to like teach those, but we also need to be making it explicit.

11 MINS LATER

22:50
yeah i am i think it's i think it's really interesting genuinely um and you shared a blog post with me before we had a conversation today and one of those things within the blog post was methods of assessment of fundamental movement skills and the one thing I like about what you do Matt is it's always linked to something that's inspired you or a book or some research that's kind of shaping your thinking and two things that you mentioned in that blog when you talked about the assessment of fundamental movement skills were kiddo screening and gutman analysis so these are two things that aren't talked about well to my understanding regularly in physical education space in the uk so initially kind of what are they and how are they how are you using them to shape your understanding and use of assessment

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