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Stop Hiding Behind the Whistle: Why PE Needs to Get in the Classroom Game

Montessori Physical Education

It suggests that the gym is somehow separate from the school’s mission, that what happens during PE doesn’t require the same level of planning, assessment, or professional skill as teaching math or English, and that we’re “just” keeping kids active. It implies that our work isn’t academic, intellectual, or essential to student success.

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Biomechanics and Motor Learning in APA: A Conversation with Dr. Ron Croce

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

For this episode we had a discussion with Dr. Ron Croce, a full professor at the University of New Hampshire, about his interesting career that intersected with adapted physical education, neurology, biomechanics, and motor learning. Dr. Croce is a distinguished scholar and professor, and has received several awards for his accomplishments.

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Teaching physical education for effective learning

Learning Through Sport

The goal of physical education teaching is student learning and it is the teacher who has the responsibility for directing the learning through their curriculum (program design), pedagogy and assessment decision-making. Physial education teaching is therefore a goal directed activity.

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Preteen Beats ACL-Meniscus Tear With Grit and Great Care

Stanford Childrens

The lab combines cutting-edge technology and decades of experience to help young athletes recover safely, improve sports performance, and reduce future injury risk through biomechanical assessment using 3-D motion capture video and force plates.

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

Learning Through Sport

By my way of observation, this implication of skill development introduced and developed in a progressive and staged manner seems inherent in many fundamental movement skill assessment and teaching programs. biomechanics, skill acquisition, exercise physiology, etc). Adventure Education. Cone et al.

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Curveballs - Kids Shouldn't Throw Them, Right?

Better Coaching

In a systematic review of curveballs as a risk factor, conducted by 3 medical doctors, first published in PubMed in August of 2013, the researchers aimed to evaluate the scientific evidence regarding the curveball and its impact on pitching biomechanics and the overall risk of arm injuries in baseball pitchers.

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Lessons from 2020: Future-Proofing Skill Sets for Uncertain Times

Informed Practitioner in Sport

From here on, we can use these principles to critique, assess and make decisions about different situations that would benefit from specialist knowledge. From an employee’s perspective, it pays to be both a generalist and a specialist. A generalist with multiple areas of specialist knowledge and expertise is better still.