Montessori Physical Education
JUNE 8, 2025
The very notion that a kid could learn while not sitting still is nothing short of educational malpractice. Now, before you come at me with pitchforks made of pool noodles, I acknowledge that physical education (PE) teachers face real, systemic challenges. But here’s the truth: every educator is pressed for time.
Better Coaching
DECEMBER 24, 2024
They are not educated or trained to understand whats necessary to properly develop our youth. Children have shorter limbs and different leverage points compared to adults, which influences their biomechanics during movements like throwing, kicking, or running. Prior to puberty, growth patterns can be erratic.
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Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 5, 2025
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.
Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 31, 2025
In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. Daryl Siedentop extensively researched physical education curriculum.
What's New in Adapted Physical Education
JULY 27, 2022
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.
Better Coaching
MARCH 5, 2021
Being educated should be a major priority for all coaches, and really, all people. They reviewed ten biomechanical studies on kinematic or electromyographic analysis of pitching a curveball, as well as five epidemiologic studies that assessed pain or injury incidence in pitchers throwing the curveball.
Informed Practitioner in Sport
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
In seeking to maximize the return on investment in our professional development and continuing education, applying the Law of Diminishing Returns (Figure 2) may be helpful. 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.
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