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Inattentional blindness and what it means for sport coaching practice

Learning Through Sport

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.

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How to ‘Spring’ Into Physical Activity During National PE & Sport Week

SHAPE America

Make new friends through movement. Show off your creativity side: Revise rules from old games and change them to new and different rules to fit the new game. Change up the games: Think of a “best of five” series, with each game being different. Spoiler alert! Everyone will walk away feeling better than when they started.

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Coaching using Play with Purpose

Learning Through Sport

Published 12/03/2012 Updated 30/01/2021 In my role as a teaching and coaching 'academic' I get to see a lot of physical education and sport teaching/coaching, at both primary and secondary school level and in community coaching settings. Involving students/players in game play is not the end of the story.

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Game-Based Teaching and Coaching as a Toolkit of Teaching Styles

Learning Through Sport

There are many versions of game-based approache s to sport teaching and coaching. place less emphasis on the development of specified techniques and more emphasis on adaptive movement responses; and 4. This purposefully constructed learning context engages the pedagogical application of game conditions/constraints/modifications to: 1.

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How can AI 'power up' sport teaching and learning in PE and sport coaching settings

Learning Through Sport

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.

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Power-Up Rhythm and Timing in Physical Education Activities

Gopher PE

Recent evidence suggests that adding developmentally appropriate cognitive demands to patterned movement stimulates executive function and the precursor skills to reading and math ( Paschen et al., The ability to synchronize movements with rhythm is fundamental to children’s ability to pull to a stand, walk, run, skip, and gallop.

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You Are Your Child’s First Coach—Freeing Your Child from Oppressive, Hyperorganized Sports

Whole Child Sports

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.