Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. Daryl Siedentop extensively researched physical education curriculum.

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What's New in Adapted Physical Education

JULY 27, 2022

For this episode we had a discussion with Dr. Ron Croce, a full professor at the University of New Hampshire, about his interesting career that intersected with adapted physical education, neurology, biomechanics, and motor learning.

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Better Coaching

MARCH 5, 2021

Being educated should be a major priority for all coaches, and really, all people. They reviewed ten biomechanical studies on kinematic or electromyographic analysis of pitching a curveball, as well as five epidemiologic studies that assessed pain or injury incidence in pitchers throwing the curveball.

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Informed Practitioner in Sport

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In seeking to maximize the return on investment in our professional development and continuing education, applying the Law of Diminishing Returns (Figure 2) may be helpful. From here on, we can use these principles to critique, assess and make decisions about different situations that would benefit from specialist knowledge.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Physical Education Framework for California Public Schools is a 342-page document that outlines the California state standards for PE. This detailed framework breaks down everything from content standards to grade level outcomes, assessments, and more. But they don’t need to take on this task alone!

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Thus we can assess our ability to perform repetitions of bodyweight movements to track our relative strength overtime, before ever think about a barbell or heavy weights. Specifically, with the push up and pull up tests, we are assessing the muscular strength and endurance of the upper body.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 5, 2025

The goal of physical education teaching is student learning and it is the teacher who has the responsibility for directing the learning through their curriculum (program design), pedagogy and assessment decision-making. Physial education teaching is therefore a goal directed activity.

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