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Fitness Through Play: How to Reimagine Physical Education for Lifelong Wellness

SHAPE America

You can embed this through goal-setting practices like the FITT principle to guide students toward personalized, achievable fitness goals. Students move in ways they enjoy, explore their strengths, and reinforce skills that transfer to recess, sports and recreational life. Thats the real foundation for lifelong habits.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

While recreation sport in curriculum time didn't feature in any of the schools I worked in, when I started my teaching career in the late 1980s, in many jurisdictions school sport was still in curriculum time. Wretman (2017) found participation in school sport had a significant standardised effect on academic achievement. Keane, F.,

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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

This approach, which Ive labeled More, Younger, insists that increased time on the field, in the gym, or on the court is the surest path to success, scholarships, and lifelong athletic achievement. Ultimately, the goal is not to stifle athletic achievement but to cultivate it in a way that respects the natural trajectory of child development.

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High School Physical Education Curriculum

PLT4M

The Bigger Picture Low activity isn’t just a health concern—it impacts academic achievement, mental health, and overall student well-being. A strong, inclusive PE curriculum can help close these gaps. Without it, we risk leaving behind those who need support the most.

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Meaningful physical education programs and a 'main theme' curriculum model

Learning Through Sport

No program can achieve all that is possible or ambitioned for physical education as physical education programs have limited time (see for more discussion the last blog). Gallahue, 1996) is designed around individual student's developmental needs rather than achievement of content-specific goals. Developmental physical education (DPE).

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Balancing Whole Athlete Development with Talent Development

MSU

Youth sport is moving away from community-based, recreational programs to a model that replicates professional and college level sports. Achievement goal theories in sport. By using specific strategies, this challenge can be overcome, and coaches can include both goals for their athletes. Harwood, C., M., & Keegan, R. Collins, D.,

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Teaching physical education for effective learning

Learning Through Sport

To attain this program goal, I agree with Siedentop (1991), "less is more" in physical education as there needs to be the time within curriculum to realistically achieve movement development outcomes with students. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance , August, 29-32. Instructional time. Mosston, M.