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

SHAPE America

National PE & Sport Week (May 1-7) is just about here. And with the celebration of healthy lifestyles, active minds and bodies, let’s reflect on the importance of physical education and sports. SHAPE America’s National PE & Sport Week allows us to showcase, promote, advocate, and show off our best ideas. Spoiler alert!

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Inattentional blindness and what it means for sport coaching practice

Learning Through Sport

The sport performance environment is characterised as complex and rich due to the nature, volume, and occurance of information available to a player. How coaches coach practice sessions are an influence on players developing perception. Jordet et al, 2020; Askum, 2020), some might say representative, practices.

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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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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.

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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. But this is leaving player development to chance.

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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. constrain/condition and shape the game behaviour of players to focus the tactical and technical learning intention; 2.

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Developing Meaningful Understanding of Games and Sport using a Game-Based Approach

Learning Through Sport

GBAs provide an alternative to the technical orientated ‘behavourist’ teaching and sport coaching which is based on a dominance of direct instruction for replication of prescribed movement models (Pill & Hyndman, 2018): what Tinning (2010) described as demonstrate-explain-practice.

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