SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

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.

Motor Skills

Player Development Project

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Where does creativity come from? Bolasie himself highlights the playful environment from which this creativity emerged and Vaughan discusses this in relation to the latest research. I was in Melbourne studying a Masters in Sports Coaching. Four years ago I was asked a question that has stuck in the back of my mind.

Creativity

Relentless School Nurse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Courageous Well-Being for Nurses a newly released book by nurse/psychotherapist/educator, Dr. Donna Gaffney and certified health and wellness coach, Nicole Foster, serves as an invaluable resource for nurses grappling with burnout and seeking ways to enhance their well-being.

Wellness

Arizona Health and Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

USTA Southwest offers two different types of educational workshops to help start your coaching journey. The USTA’s Play Facilitators and Coaching Fundamentals Workshops differ in focus to meet the coach’s specific needs. This workshop is a two-day, in-person workshop facilitated by National Coach Developers.

Coaching

Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

My creativity and innovation went to good use when developing a plan for cardiac arrest and the reentry of students from psychiatric facilities. My natural tendency to coach people, (really to boss them around) allowed me to influence them to make better health choices.

Schooling

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Show off your creativity side: Revise rules from old games and change them to new and different rules to fit the new game. Imagine the fun and excitement you will have playing five different games in five different days, trying to become the ultimate fitness winner. Spoiler alert! Everyone will walk away feeling better than when they started.

Physical Activity

Player Development Project

DECEMBER 21, 2019

The post Developing Creative Team Games Players: From Jazz to Sport Coaching appeared first on Player Development Project. Freeman got to talking about how hard the work of improvisation is, the working out of all the possibilities of a theme, and the on-going promise of.

Creativity

Player Development Project

JANUARY 16, 2020

The post The Creative Moment appeared first on Player Development Project. This content is for members only.

Creativity

Player Development Project

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Creativity values, culture, systems and control. What does it all mean and how does it impact coaching and sporting environments? In this Masterclass Discussion, PDP Editor, Dave Wright hosts Co-Founder of my fastest mile, Mark Upton alongside PDP Lead Researcher and AIK Academy Coach, James Vaughan.

Creativity

Player Development Project

MARCH 27, 2019

If players and coaches. The post Effects of Skills4Genius Sports Based Training Program in Creative Behaviour appeared first on Player Development Project.

Creativity

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 16, 2024

How coaches coach practice sessions are an influence on players developing perception. Research by Furly and colleagues (2010, see here ) showed that a coach can attentionally set a players perception by the instructions they provide. What does this mean for the practitioner coach? " more game-form practice.

Coaching

MSU

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

About 14 years ago, he coached his son’s first flag football team and fell in love with it. Since then, he has pursued volunteer opportunities to coach and continued his education, all in hope of becoming a coach one day when he retires. I was always aware that I lacked practical coaching experience.

Coaching

Player Development Project

JUNE 8, 2022

Last month I finally published a scientific paper, Developing Creativity to Enhance Human Potential in Sport: A Wicked Transdisciplinary Challenge. The post The Future of Coaching Must Look Beyond the Past appeared first on Player Development Project. After rejections and reviews, the paper was finally out there.

Coaching

Learning Through Sport

JULY 13, 2021

There are many versions of game-based approache s to sport teaching and coaching. Most of the research and scholarly literature on GBAs has focused on the pedagogical acts of the teacher or coach or on the observation of players’ game behaviours (see for example Stolz & Pill review of TGfU here and associated research).

Teaching

The Sporting

APRIL 14, 2023

There are various clubs and organisations across the UK that provide training and coaching to aspiring rhythmic gymnasts. Halford is also a four-time British Rhythmic Gymnastics champion and she is known for her athleticism and creativity in her routines.

Creativity

MSU

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Coaches and athletes do the same thing at the beginning of a new season. Setting goals can be a very helpful tool for coaches. Goals can help coaches create expectations for the season and motivation for their athletes. Goal setting sessions should include coaches and athletes and are beneficial to conduct during the preseason.

Coaching

MSU

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Coaches and athletes do the same thing at the beginning of a new season. Setting goals can be a very helpful tool for coaches. Goals can help coaches create expectations for the season and motivation for their athletes. Goal setting sessions should include coaches and athletes and are beneficial to conduct during the preseason.

Coaching

Player Development Project

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In order to maximise their potential, and thrive under whatever challenges the game provides, players must be creative, independent decision-makers. Therefore, a crucial component of coaching is helping players learn to think and act for themselves. This, in turn, requires us to give them autonomy in their developmental journeys.

Creativity

Whole Child Sports

JANUARY 6, 2020

We do this because, as parents, we are our children’s first coaches. As our children grow into physically active, upright beings and we introduce them to sports, we pass the coaching baton to others, hopeful that while playing sports with their peers, our kids will be taught new skills, make friends, and develop a passion for exercise.

Coaching

Player Development Project

JUNE 21, 2020

Coaching soccer can be complex. The best soccer coaches take a principle-driven approach to teaching, get to know their players as human beings in order to help them develop as athletes, and are proficient communicators, adept in both session design and delivery.

Coaching

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

I also have other colleagues in the fraternity looking very seriously at how values can be brought across by coaches in their sessions, including making it as part of coaching accreditation processes through observations and therefore a compulsory part of professional development. My take is that it is tough.

Physical Education

Changing the Game Project

JULY 16, 2024

The other day I had a conversation with a therapist and youth sports advocate who is doing some great work in building greater connection between coaches, athletes and parents. Yes, they want to win, but they still want the freedom to be creative, explore, try new things, and yes, even make mistakes! Our patience is gone!

Sports

MSU

APRIL 12, 2019

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Sport Coaching and Leadership Online Programs. Perhaps the most important goal for coaches is developing the movement skills of their athletes. Let’s say you’re a lacrosse coach teaching a player to shoot the ball on goal. How do you get the player to extend their arms more?

Coaching

Learning Through Sport

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

A GBA for games and sport teaching in physical education and sport coaching had been described often as 'discovery' or 'guided discovery' teaching. Worthington (1974) suggested the coach designs the game knowing this 'teachable moment' will occur, and waits for its arrival to 'freeze play'. It depends on the task outcome requirements.

Divergent Discovery

Player Development Project

AUGUST 6, 2018

So how can coaches help players embrace or reduce this significant psychological factor to enhance creativity and freedom when performing? Prior to the 2018 World Cup, Jurgen Klopp, the coach of Liverpool FC, suggested that the media could help the England’s men’s football team by reducing the pressure “a notch or two”.

Creativity

The Sporting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Finding space, he would appear for a teammate to receive and then move the ball on, with his coach Pep Guardiola putting it: "I get the ball, I give the ball, I get the ball, I give the ball." He was an expert passer, mostly relying on his ability to find and exploit space as a deep-lying playmaker. I'm always looking."

Creativity

PLT4M

AUGUST 25, 2022

And as teachers and coaches, it is our job to help each individual reach their full potential. For example, check out this fun video from Coach Max as he shows how a broomstick can turn into an effective training tool! The Case For Modified Workouts & Exercises Every student is on their own personal fitness journey.

Exercise

Learning Through Sport

JULY 11, 2023

This study showed that personalised teaching with a focus on mastery learning leads to two standard deviation improvement in student learning outcomes as it enabled teachers to give more attention to student ‘higher mental processes’ – problem-solving, application of principles, analytical skills, and creativity. AI makes it possible.

Coaching

Player Development Project

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In this practice, UEFA A licensed coach, Dave Wright gets out on the grass with a group of Melbourne Victory U20 players. The session is designed to recreate a turnover and get players thinking about defensive decisions, when to press and when to hold, whilst encouraging attackers to express themselves and be creative.

Recreation

Whole Child Sports

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Command-oriented coaching” — the common approach to youth sports — “kills flexibility and self-development and retards creativity and the development of resilience,” Lancaster says. It will curtail their creativity, damage their potential resilience, hamper them in developing social skills, and perhaps create entitlement monsters.”

Sports

Player Development Project

JANUARY 11, 2021

In this session, PDP Lead Researcher & AIK Academy Coach, James Vaughan changes task constraints and encourages player reflection to create opportunities for learning with space for creative expression. This is something I really enjoy after years of coaching futsal.

Creativity

The Sporting

DECEMBER 20, 2022

2022 - The Best Young French Footballers Rayan Cherki Beginning the list is an Olympique Lyonnais starlet; young creative midfielders have become a commodity in recent years at the French club, the likes of Nabil Fekir shun in his time in the city and the likes of Houssem Aouar and Maxence Caqueret continue to do so. Eduardo Camavinga.

Creativity

Human Kinetics

MARCH 22, 2021

By Adam Mullis, Middle School Health and Physical Education Teacher and Coach. Learn creative ways to promote health and wellness for students, faculty, and staff. . . In the presentation below, Adam Mullis discusses his experience of leading Wellness Week, a school-wide celebration of health and wellness. Presentation Material.

Wellness

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

There are so many variations here, use your creativity! Encourage them to use their creativity, perhaps on beat four they choose a new movement together like a Superman position or a Clap/Clap, increasing the cognitive demands of the activities while feeling empowered and playful. Have fun with this process, it can be new to students.

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

Developments in curriculum frameworks around the world have formalised a rationale for critical thinking, problem solving and creativity in PE as elements in both curriculum design and in the wording of student achievement standards. Critical thinking can be learned. Image from Pill, S. Using tactical games.

Convergent Discovery

Better Coaching

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It’s worth your times if you coach kids. We met Dr. Stratton at the Virginia Tech campus and were eager to get his feedback on the following questions related to youth football athletes, parents and coaches: YFO: What is winning in youth sports? Coaches need to focus on teaching the fundamentals of the game. Attainable goals.

Psychology

The Sporting

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In addition, a natural left foot is not easily coached to naturally right-footed players. Technically brilliant and with expert vision and creativity, Puskás was a generational talent that excelled at the elite level. In football, a player blessed with left-footed ability is a luxury.

Creativity