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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. Include foundational skills (e.g., squatting, swimming, biking) in your PE program.

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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. Burnout often unfolds in stages: Enthusiasm: The child begins with high motivation and excitement.

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Power-Up Rhythm and Timing in Physical Education Activities

Gopher Sport

Due to a variety of factors including less opportunity for physical activity throughout the day, more seated classroom time, and fewer foundational motor experiences (swinging, climbing trees, jumping rope, building forts, and kicking the can in the alley), children’s fundamental motor skills are on the decline ( Brian et al.,

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Why teach gymnastics in primary school?

Aspire-Ed

If you’re looking for a sport that covers just about all of the physical skills that children need to develop, gymnastics is your answer. Flexibility, strength, technique, speed, control, coordination and balance are all developed through gymnastics. Bilateral coordination has been found to facilitate academic success.

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Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently

Skillastics

Can science really confirm that physical activity affects the way we learn? Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. But the connection to how the brain and physical activity work together goes much deeper. Absolutely.

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11 Common Mistakes in PE and One Unique Solution

Heartzones

There are many different types, methods, and timing of student assessments in Physical Education. All of these physical evaluations rely on the ability for the instructor or better yet, the student, to measure physical activity results. Mistake #5: Lack of student motivation.

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Model School: Mabry Middle School

Heartzones

As the PE teacher at Mabry Middle School, Chad Oates needed a resource in his classroom capable of engaging and enriching their student’s content mastery while motivating increased physical activity intensity and collaboration. “I enjoyed that new activity.” ” “How did I do today coach?”