SPECTRUM COLLEAGUES
Nikolaos Digelidis. Ph. D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences
University of Thessaly, Greece
Email:
nikdig@pe.uth.gr
At first, it was curiosity and the miracle of word-of-mouth. Soon it became my daily work. Working as a PE teacher and using the Spectrum in my everyday teaching were my first steps. The Spectrum is a wonderful idea of how to have open horizons to teaching and learning. Then, as a PhD student, trying to implement several strategies for enhancing motivational climate in PE settings was a step further which gave me the opportunity to integrate with my previous teaching experience. I realised then the importance of the Spectrum in school. Now, trying to share this know-how with my students is the ultimate experience.
In 2007, after 14 years of deliberate work with the Spectrum, many friends and colleagues encourage me to publish a short guide of lesson planning procedures by using the Spectrum for my student-teachers that I was supervising. In the same year, together with Sara Ashworth, I organized the First International Forum on Spectrum Teaching Styles: A Reunion and a Review in Halkidiki, Greece.
Over 20 participants gathered to discuss Spectrum. I feel that I’m still learning from the Spectrum and perhaps this is what we all Spectrum-people share. We like learning!
About Nikolaos Digelidis
Nikolaos has been a PE instructor in the elementary and secondary level for 8 years. He coached volleyball teams for 5 years. Alone or together with colleagues, he has published 5 books, (two of them are the official books for PE in Greece), one chapter in an international book and 29 publications in peer reviewed journals (8 of them in international journals). He has supervised student-teachers since 1999. His main research interests are enhancing motivational climate in PE settings, conducting short-term or long-term school interventions, and teaching styles and teacher education.