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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

SHAPE America

Having a bus provides me the flexibility to take students places when that happens. During our disc golf unit, we hop on a bus and drive to the disc golf course down the road. As a PE teacher, you already know the gym gets stolen from you all the time. He teaches a unique mobile class that focuses on lifetime sports and activities.

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Encouraging greater sport participation

Learning Through Sport

Flexible 'pay as you play' options are often not available. For adolescent and young adults, greater sport participation requires that sport be more flexible in terms of scheduling and availability, more affordable, and more social. By sport, I include competitive, social and recreational leisure and informal sport.

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Nike Air Force One - A History

The Sporting

The technology worked on pressurized air in a tough, flexible bag. The air technology added to the sole's flexibility, elasticity, and durability, while keeping the shoes lightweight and in a distinct shape. The shoe proved to be a turning point in the sports and sneaker culture for its unprecedented feature of Nike Air technology.

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4-Square Non-Traditional Adaptations For Physical Education

Gopher Sport

Economical and Flexible: Equipment Recommendations for 4-Square Fun! I hope this blog has given you some ideas on how to recreate common games in a fresh new light for your students. Additionally, the teacher can tailor rules to suit the entire group, as opposed to just a few individuals.

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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

In a 2020 publication by the Rutgers Youth Sports Research Council, sports psychologists stressed the importance of distinguishing between deliberate practice (which is highly structured, purposeful, and cognitively demanding) and deliberate play (child-centered, inherently motivating, and flexible).

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Curriculum Mapping For Physical Education

PLT4M

Also popular were alternative Lifetime Fitness courses like HITT Bootcamps, Dance and Boxing, along with Recreational Activities like Spikeball, Pickleball, and Kan-Jam. Desired Outcome: Students improve their motor skills and movement patterns, and apply them in a recreational setting.

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Structures and Ecology: Linear facilitation processes vis-à-vis non-linear developmental processes in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

The challenge now is to fill up the flexible spaces in between the structures with realities of how learners learn. After that, some do take on a routine of being involved in sports and/or physical fitness activities but mainly as social vehicles that just happens to overlap with their need for recreational movements for health and fitness.