Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 5, 2025
Teaching is a complex and sometimes complicated endeavour. 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.
Montessori Physical Education
JUNE 8, 2025
Most PE teachers teach six, seven, or even eight classes a day with barely a moment in between. Now, before you come at me with pitchforks made of pool noodles, I acknowledge that physical education (PE) teachers face real, systemic challenges. ⏳ Time Constraints Yes, time is a legitimate concern. Why has this perception lingered for so long?
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Better Coaching
DECEMBER 24, 2024
A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. Children have shorter limbs and different leverage points compared to adults, which influences their biomechanics during movements like throwing, kicking, or running.
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.
Gopher Sport
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Time should be set aside at the start of the year to teach students movement competence concepts related to walking. Types of Walking Teaching students the skill of walking starts with identifying types of walking. It is fast, but it is not biomechanically sound. What to Teach? Purposeful Walking. How Fast is Enough?
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. biomechanics, skill acquisition, exercise physiology, etc).
Better Coaching
MARCH 5, 2021
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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