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

SHAPE America

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

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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

When children are pushed beyond their developmental limitsphysically, cognitively, and emotionallythey may fall out of love with sports, lose motivation to continue, or develop chronic injuries that hamper their future athletic endeavors. Its important to note that sports can be incredibly positive for youth.

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Starting the Journey: Goal Setting for Coaches and Their Teams

MSU

Coaches and athletes do the same thing at the beginning of a new season. Setting goals can be a very helpful tool for coaches. Goals can help coaches create expectations for the season and motivation for their athletes. What keeps you motivated to lead them in their growth and success? What Are Goals?

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Starting the Journey: Goal Setting for Coaches and Their Teams

MSU

Coaches and athletes do the same thing at the beginning of a new season. Setting goals can be a very helpful tool for coaches. Goals can help coaches create expectations for the season and motivation for their athletes. What keeps you motivated to lead them in their growth and success? What Are Goals?

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Keeping Players Motivated with Great Practice Activities

MSU

Use our six criteria for a motivating practice activity to grade your own practice activities. Every coach should want players to be highly motivated during a practice activity. But where does that motivation come from? Are some players just motivated from the inside? They will work through fatigue.

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The Future of Coaching Must Look Beyond the Past

Player Development Project

Last month I finally published a scientific paper, Developing Creativity to Enhance Human Potential in Sport: A Wicked Transdisciplinary Challenge. The post The Future of Coaching Must Look Beyond the Past appeared first on Player Development Project. After rejections and reviews, the paper was finally out there.

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

Reinventing the Game

I also have other colleagues in the fraternity looking very seriously at how values can be brought across by coaches in their sessions, including making it as part of coaching accreditation processes through observations and therefore a compulsory part of professional development. My take is that it is tough.