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Active Schools – 2024 Highlights

Active Schools Us

They also published an open-access article in JOPERD titled Promoting an Active School: Tools, Resources, & Recognition, published in the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance. As we look ahead to 2025, we are energized by the possibilities. Champions like you are vital to the Active Schools movement.

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5 Tips for Moving Your Career Forward as a Health and Physical Education Teacher

SHAPE America

These notes became the foundation for a two-part series we would later write for the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), “Transitioning From Students of Teaching to Teachers of Students.”. Running the Race. As the clock ticks toward graduation, those innocent, every-once-in-a-while thoughts gain strength.

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2024 Arizona Lee Burkett Adapted Physical Education Award

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Mark has also taught students in the Elementary Education Teacher Preparation program, the Leadership and Learning Innovation program and most recently the Sport Camp; Recreation Leadership program.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

In Year 12, a new principal decided to stop this program so more time could go ito academics. While recreation sport in curriculum time didn't feature in any of the schools I worked in, when I started my teaching career in the late 1980s, in many jurisdictions school sport was still in curriculum time. Keane, F., & McTeer, W., &

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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

Rather, this article advocates for an evidence-based, developmentally appropriate approach that aligns with guidelines championed by experts such as the Aspen Institute, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and academic researchers. Training to Win (18+ years): Elite-level competition - win.

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Reflection – Action coupling for teachers in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

This is usually the point where a whole year’s of effort culminates and everyone sort of wind down from an intense academic calendar. I usually am hooked on the first paper that engages me without going to first source like in academic writing. This paper was done almost a decade ago but still valid in its value. References.

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So what now in Physical Education (PE)? A personal reflection.

Reinventing the Game

It is not a case of wanting to be academic but rather just a very deep-set belief that it is important to understand the whys of behaviour. I have long subsume game under the bigger umbrella of recreational movement. I realised my deficiency in providing the former and lack of clarity when sharing the latter.