Aspire-Ed

MARCH 5, 2024

We aim to empower KS1 and KS2 teachers, professionals, coaches and trainees like you through some of the best CPD courses available. Our CPD courses are designed to cater to the diverse needs of all educators and coaches. Inclusivity and adaptability are at the core of our values at Aspire:ED.

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The PE Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Breaking Boundaries: Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools As summer fast approaches (hopefully bringing the sunny weather with it), so do the ‘summer sports’ in PE. Each of these activities comes with different challenges when teaching in primary schools. However, this does not have to be the case.

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Learning Through Sport

MAY 25, 2021

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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Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In a previous blog (available here ) I considered the idea of meaningful understanding of sport using a game based approach. In this blog, I explore the concept of meaningful sport further. Sport is a highly valued social activity. Sport as useful. Sport as understood. Teaching for understanding argument.

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Learning Through Sport

JULY 13, 2021

There are many versions of game-based approache s to sport teaching and coaching. However, it is more accurate to think of a GBA as a range of teaching styles or a “toolkit” of styles. We show a GBA can be many teaching styles to players, which invokes the metaphor of the GBA as a pedagogical toolkit.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cara has served and supported SHAPE America and SHAPE Maryland through service, training, Twitter chats (@CaraGrant11), coaching, mentoring, as a contributing author, and as a member of the SHAPE America EDI Podcast team. in kinesiology (sport pedagogy) and an M.S. She has an Ed.D. He has a Ph.D.

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Active Schools Us

MARCH 24, 2021

As a basketball fanatic and coach, I challenge all sports fans and caring community members to take a quick break from March Madness to advocate for one often overlooked part of our education system that is critical to the development of the student athletes who are wowing us during this year’s tournament: physical education.

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Learning Through Sport

JUNE 13, 2022

Mitch Hewitt, who was doing his PhD thesis on tennis coaches perceived use of a game-based Game Sense approach and actual observed teaching styles, using a Spectrum of Teaching Styles analysis, heard I was going to be in Melbourne where he is based, and emailed asking to catch up.

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SHAPE America

MAY 31, 2022

negotiating facilities use agreements, requesting funds from higher administration for women’s athletics, negotiating with faculty about academic vs. coaching duties). million, while women’s athletics received only a few thousand dollars from the Intramural Sports Club budget. Volunteer Coaches. A two-year timeline was set.

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MSU

JANUARY 19, 2023

Pete Jacobson has been a wrestling coach in New York for 21 years at Edgemont High School. Ian Cowburn is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching in the Centre for Sport Coaching at Leeds Beckett University.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The effects of vaping on youth is a focus for researchers, youth sports coaches, federal government agencies, and the media. 8 Tips to Help Young Athletes Defeat Vaping As a coach or a teacher, you’re in an excellent position to help young athletes understand the risks of vaping. Study the opposition. Study the film.

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Aspire-Ed

AUGUST 3, 2023

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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Learning Through Sport

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Small sided games (SSGs) have been part of the coaching lexicon for decades. It is therefore difficult to generalise the value of SSG for sport coaching or sport teaching in PE, when there is an absence of research into the use of SSGs in most game categories and in general, most sports.

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Whole Child Sports

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In addition, the boards replicate board sports (skateboarding, snowboarding, surfng) movements. It also strengthens the supporting ligaments and muscles around his ankles, knees, and hips, which can help keep your child playing sports injury free (Stages One and Two). Vew-Do NUB Boards. Frisbees, tennis balls, and NERF balls.

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AASP

DECEMBER 21, 2022

” - </em>David Parkin (Sport Australia Hall of Fame).</p> The end of a sporting career can be felt as a significant loss in an athlete’s life, especially if the end of their career was premature or not freely chosen, such as in the case of a career ending injury (Stephan, 2003).

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Learning Through Sport

AUGUST 5, 2023

Youth sport retention is a critical issue for many reasons. Sport can provide children with valuable life skills such as teamwork, discipline, and goal setting. Sport can help children develop a sense of belonging and identity. In a previous blog here I suggested coaching and game competition emphasis for different age ranges.

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Better Coaching

JANUARY 22, 2017

Youth sports coaches are the men and women who volunteer their time to teach our youth the many life lessons we can acquire through sports. However, my experience as a youth sports coach has allowed me to observe many coaches conducting practices, games, post-game speeches, and clinics. Really, coach?

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 5, 2021

Concentrate" I have often heard coaches say versions of this statement to players. Concentration, or more precisely the directing of attention, is generally acknowledged as required for successful sporting performance.

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Learning Through Sport

JUNE 4, 2022

The rationale for this spend is improvement in student outcomes (teacher PD) and player outcomes (coach PD). How do we retain more people in sport participation? - This morning, I was reading a research paper investigating coach use of a 'contemporary' non-linear pedagogy.

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Montessori Physical Education

MARCH 19, 2023

Part one of Why Your Montessori School Needs Sports featured the history of the Rogers Park Montessori School basketball program. In it, I recounted the humble origins of the program, including the initial resistance to sports being introduced into a Montessori school. Like a Montessori classroom, we must prepare the environment.

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MSU

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Life skill development and positive youth development (PYD) is often tied to youth sport. In this post, I will share the research on PYD in sport and provide some strategies for promoting PYD in your context. However, positive youth development (PYD) has become a hot button topic in sport. By Dr. Jennifer Roth. The Research.

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SHAPE America

JUNE 8, 2022

Growing up, I really had no idea that there were inequities when it came to girls and boys sports. Here are just a few of the differences that were firmly in place while I was growing up: Organized sports for boys (Little League, CYO, etc.) This was my first opportunity to participate in an organized sport. More Battles.

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Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A good starting point for pedagogical thinking in sport and physical education is Judith Rink's (2006) criteria for a learning experience in Teaching Physical Education : 1. If interested in this area, I have put the game design ideas for sport teaching in PE in a series of papers, which I summarised in this blog here.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 30, 2021

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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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This is not easy to talk about on as they are those in the fraternity who take this very seriously and equates it to effective teaching, especially the more experienced teachers. How about sport/game skills or abilities? Using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) terminologies, what is the impact on Autonomy, Relatedness and Competence?

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SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

Steven was a joy to teach with and so very knowledgeable. It came with a top-notch Bluetooth speaker, subscription to the service, and the Billie Jean King Eye Coach (think batting tee for tennis). We have the bikes at my school for as long as we use them and teach the nutrition curriculum. Open —and we were accepted!

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The Sporting

JULY 12, 2023

A Guide to Sports Psychology and 8 Important Benefits for Athletes Sports psychology has emerged as a vital field within the realm of athletics. With the guidance of sports psychologists, you can tap into your full potential, improve your focus and gain a competitive edge!

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 25, 2023

Physical Education teachers and sport coaches have in common the development of a curriculum (program of learning) and the method (pedagogy) to teach the content of the curriculum. What to teach Physical education programs package the content, pacing, spacing and progression of learning into a design called a curriculum.

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B.E.S.T. Youth Sports Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

What Makes A Great Youth Sports Parent? How do you care all the time and why do you try to make everyone happy in your BEST Youth Sports program?” How do you care all the time and why do you try to make everyone happy in your BEST Youth Sports program?” Be a part of your Youth Sports player outside of sports.

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Learning Through Sport

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I mapped out the model I call Play with Purpose for developing player game sense as people were telling me that the model I was discussing filled a missing 'piece' of information for them about the Game Sense approach- when, why or how to use 'other' teaching styles in a game based approach (GBA).

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AKA Sports

MAY 25, 2022

Updated/Edited: This Blog, originally posted in the Fall of 2019, “A Segment on the AKA Archery & Outdoors Division”, was in reference to the nature of the AKASPORT Archery program in terms of teaching competitive archery with references to hunting and ecological effects of controlling the deer population. We’re now hooked.

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Learning Through Sport

MAY 18, 2021

Sport is dynamic and complex play. constructivism and complex learning) relevant to sport coaching have been used to suggest that it is preferable to retain the logic of play by simplifying the representation of the game as the focus if not the majority of the learning to play experience, especially with novices.

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Learning Through Sport

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Small sided games (SSGs) have been part of the coaching lexicon for decades. The increasing recognition of SSG as a training and coaching/teaching tool over the last forty years has led to the research community paying increasingly greater attention to them. International Sports Studies, 41 (2), 5-31. Pill, S., &

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The PE Hub

APRIL 3, 2024

It’s not a sport you hear about enough in schools – and the Golf Foundation is working to change that. Of course, practically, it can be a challenge to teach. Golfway includes games and drills developed by the Golf Foundation to deliver fun, engaging, and accessible golf sessions that will open the sport to a new generation.

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MSU

APRIL 3, 2024

At MSU, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, a Faculty Affiliate for the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports, and Co-coordinator of the MSU Summer Coaches’ School. She is also Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the United States Center for Coaching Excellence (USCCE).

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Aspire-Ed

MARCH 27, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that following an extensive quality assurance check by CIMSPA (Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity) — Aspire Training Solutions and Aspire:ED has been awarded “ Enhancing ” status—the highest level of quality ratings that an education provider can achieve.

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MSU

MARCH 29, 2021

In an effort to meet the needs of our students and to address the issues of sport, we are launching two new courses in the Sport Coaching and Leadership program in Summer 2021 (May 17 – August 16). Sociocultural Issues for Sport Practitioners – KIN 846. The Sport Enterprise – KIN 851.

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