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You Don’t Need Innovative Equipment to Be Creative in Physical Education

Physical Education Update

Do you suffer from a lack of physical education equipment? While innovative equipment can make classes more fun – and I wouldn’t advise your students to try these moves – here’s an amazing example of an incredible gymnastics-dance-tumbling-agility routine performed using nothing but a partner and some benches.

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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

SHAPE America’s National Physical Education & Sport Week (May 1-7) is a celebration of the importance of physical education and sport in the lives of kids of all ages. An example of this is to combine locomotor running skills for quickness and agility as seen in tennis and soccer.

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Can You Use CrossFit In Physical Education Classes?

Physical Education Update

A trend in physical education has been to make PE classes less difficult so that every student can enjoy them. The video above shows an example of how Crossfit concepts can be used in a high school physical education setting, as a program for students who want to work harder than in their traditional PE classes.

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Educators as agile and adaptive pedagogues

Learning Through Sport

Similar is found in another educative endeavour, sport coaching with the coach centred / player centred paradigm shift. Now, it seems that in some literature there are two education paradigms confronted with the same critique: passivity. Interest and effort in education. Olinger, R. Meddling in the middle. Houghton Mifflin.

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Free Resource – 11+ Warmup Program Dramatically Reduces Injuries

Physical Education Update

Six exercises with a focus on core and leg strength, agility/plyometrics, and balance. Warmup Design The 11+ warm-up program involves 15 exercises performed in three specific phases. The phases are: Slow-speed running exercises combined with active stretching and controlled partner contact. There are three levels of difficulty.

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What does Skills and Values look like in Physical Education (PE)?

Reinventing the Game

It is a combination of work stress, doubts about alignment of what I want with what it should it be like to be a Physical Education (PE) teacher, fatigue, etc. Recently, I came upon a question asked on social media regards what is skill, or to be skilful and what does it mean for Physical Education (PE). considering all parts?

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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

They are not educated or trained to understand whats necessary to properly develop our youth. Coach Education: Mandate training for youth coaches in injury prevention, recognizing overtraining symptoms, and proper biomechanics for developing athletes. Gradually increase skill complexity and training intensity post-puberty.

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