Better Coaching
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Parents and coaches, bombarded with stories of children being offered collegiate scholarships in middle school or making national-level teams at age ten, feel an impetus to accelerate their own childrens development. This underscores the futility of making high-stakes decisions about a childs athletic future in elementary school.
Montessori Physical Education
JUNE 8, 2025
Well, here’s the quiet part out loud: Far too many PE teachers are failing to integrate their content with the broader school curriculum. Is our hesitation to collaborate setting up a veneer that gym class is its own thing, with zero connection to the rest of the school? How ridiculous did that sound? Yes, I said it. It’s not our job.”
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Gopher Sport
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
In a recent survey of elementary teachers, it was found that most start off the school year with some form of rules/procedures coupled with games of low organization (fun, teamwork, cooperation). It is used to transport the body (to school and back, to the store and back, to the bus and back, or to the car and back).
Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 5, 2025
This can only occur by meaking realistic descisions about what can be taught and learnt in the time available to physical education in the school curricula. All that I believe that can claim to be uniquely the remit of physical education is the use of movement as the primary means for teaching and learning.
Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 31, 2025
The reality is that physical education has limited time in a school curricula. This question is deeply connected to the question , What is important to learn in physical education in the time available (and to what standard or level of competence) to enable students to continue to pursue being physically active beyond the school gates?
The Everlearner
DECEMBER 17, 2024
If you are a secondary school or college PE teacher, theres a pretty good chance that the concept of biomechanics teaching has crossed your mind. Perhaps youve taught it at GCSE or A-level or perhaps youve heard conversations about how hard it is and how people avoid teaching it.
Stanford Childrens
AUGUST 9, 2023
I would do it after school. 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. He created his own self-imposed daily workout at home. “I
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