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

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Early Specialization vs. Multi-Sport Participation: What’s the Best Approach for Long-Term Athletic Success and Injury Prevention?

Better Coaching

Young athletes who specialize in one sport are subject to the same movements, muscles, and joints being stressed repeatedly. By participating in different sports, athletes use a variety of muscles, engage in different types of movement patterns, and allow overworked muscles to recover during off-seasons.

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The World's Toughest Sports

The Sporting

Boxers need to acquire a high level of endurance, strength, speed, agility and technical skill, as well as mental toughness and strategic thinking in order to be able to thrive in this sport. Boxers must be able to read their opponents' movements and anticipate their next move, while also creating openings to attack.

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Why teach gymnastics in primary school?

Aspire-Ed

KS1: “Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others.” Teaching gymnastics helps children improve in other sports.

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Creating an Engaging Obstacle Course in PE Class

School Yard

Motivating students to develop a life-long love of healthy movement and physical activity is just one of several unique challenges for PE educators. A class period full of agility and skill-building movements can be fun and an adventurous change of pace. Sportime Anti-Skid Agility Ladder.

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

Reinventing the Game

Without doubt, as experts, we can predict much movement outcomes when it comes to skills, values, etc. We want students to use their mind in the task we give them – as oppose to them not using it ), etc. Are all this attempts to put the horse before the cart too explicitly?