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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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Transfer of learning in physical education

Learning Through Sport

In this curriculum design there is insufficient time for the volume of practice required through deliberate play and practice to master technical and tactical skills of an activity to the level where a student previously not playing the sport can reach at least a social-recreational level of ability to play/participate in the activity.

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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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Is Physical Education (PE) Universal?

Reinventing the Game

All the mentioned recent events for me are encouraging because these are stuff that drives me but still overwhelming because of the need to carve out time to have the motivation and energy to want to embark on being better at it. So is PE even necessary for such movement-for-survival culture?

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Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education

PLT4M

In this article, Sean explores motivational theories in physical education. Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education Often the responsibility for motivation is placed solely on the student in physical education (PE) classes. Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D.

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

Reinventing the Game

During this terrible COVID period, I am very sure there are many of us out there feeling very helpless as the main component of social interaction in traditional PE is taken away, relegating movement away from the context we are used to our whole teaching lives. Is living it.

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The Perfect Storm of Learning Conditions in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

I am inspired to go further and try to understand the role of movement within our world. This requires some acknowledgement of the importance of philosophy of existence, i.e. how and why do we behave for survival and recreation. Cognitive Evaluation Theory, (Deci) , looks into motivation in a comprehensive way when considering actions.