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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

SHAPE America’s National Physical Education & Sport Week (May 1-7) is a celebration of the importance of physical education and sport in the lives of kids of all ages. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Show how these skills are developed across sport.

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Motivating Players in Mixed-Ability Environments

Player Development Project

As coaches, our priority should be to engage every player and facilitate enjoyable sporting experiences for all. Below, we discuss how coaches can manage the difference within teams, in order to give all players an appropriate challenge, and keep them involved, enthusiastic, and motivated.

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Controlling Motivational Strategies: Implications for Sports Coaches

Player Development Project

In sports, there is a difference between players who are merely involved and players who are fully committed. The post Controlling Motivational Strategies: Implications for Sports Coaches appeared first on Player Development Project. Bartholomew, N. Ntoumanis, and C. You will have to play along here.) The chicken is.

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Meet USA TODAY High School Sports Awards Coach of the Year nominee, Vito Campanile

USA Today

And to echo USA TODAY High School Sports Awards ‘ Randy Buffington, behind every great team is a solid head coach. That’s certainly true of the Crusaders’ Vito Campanile, who has been nominated for USA Today High School Sports Awards Coach of the Year. View this post on Instagram.

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NBA Coach is a Class Act…So Are You!

Physical Education Update

Before you head off for your summer holidays, I thought I’d leave you with a demonstration of character by an All-Star professional basketball player and coach. But he’s only demonstrating the same ethics and motivations that drive most of our scholastic PE teachers and coaches.

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Developing Passionate Athletes: The Role of Parents and Coaches

AASP

While we assume high-level athletes are passionate about their sport, we do not often question how their passion developed. Parents and coaches both play an influential role in developing and maintaining passionate athletes. Parents and coaches both play an influential role in developing and maintaining passionate athletes.

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Encouraging greater sport participation

Learning Through Sport

There is substantial evidence of many psychological, physical, and social health benefits of participation in sport across the lifespan, including that participation in sport is associated with improved psychological and social health benefits above other forms of leisure time physical activity for children and adolescents.

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