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Unpacking Student Motivation

The Physical Educator

Early on in my career, I had no idea how to motivate students in my teaching. Knowing this impact, how can we best support student motivation in our lessons? Self-determination theory looks at human motivation and tries to understand the factors that push or prevent people from wanting to learn and grow.

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Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education

PLT4M

In this article, Sean explores motivational theories in physical education. Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education Often the responsibility for motivation is placed solely on the student in physical education (PE) classes. Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D.

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Mastering Behaviour Management: Empowering coaches to create a supportive environment for every pupil.

Aspire-Ed

Are you a sports coach looking to create a supportive environment for every pupil? The new Behaviour Management course from Aspire:ED is here to help you empower your coaching techniques and positively impact your pupils' lives. To help you navigate these challenges, we've compiled some top tips for behaviour management.

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Do Teachers Deserve All Their Holiday Time?

Physical Education Update

Then stay after hours to coach or supervise extracurriculars. The alternative is a generation of burned out teachers – teachers who don’t have the energy to entertain, to motivate, to intrigue, to capture the attention of students. tags]teaching,holidays,teachers [/tags]. Do teachers deserve their holidays?

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The primary practices that encompass athlete-centred sport teaching/coaching

Learning Through Sport

Three primary practices encompass athlete-centred coaching. - As former All Black's coach Wayne Smith is famous for saying, "better people make better players". An expanded 'teaching' agenda (developing life skills as well as playing ability), democracy in action and athlete empowerment feed into the development of Team Culture.

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Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role?

Reinventing the Game

Insisting on precision takes a fair bit of time in the preparation phase, usually a teacher-centred process which leads to possibly external regulation for most learners (limited intrinsic motivation). To what extent does motivation comes in when we start with precision? How about sport/game skills or abilities?

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Reality congruent sport teaching

Learning Through Sport

There is limited evidence of sport teaching in physical education transferring to physical activity participation 'beyond the school gate' in any numerical sense of significance. Teaching for understanding argument. Affective – the argument that focussing on the positive affect of movement will motivate continued participation.