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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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Student Centered Learning Examples Using Technology

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3) Identify curricular models, including the activities that will allow students to reach the outcomes stated in the standards Aligning the student learning objectives, assessment strategies, and learning activities is known as instructional alignment (Lund & Tannehill, 2015).

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5 Tips To Technology Use In Physical Education

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Technology can be useful at enhancing teaching and learning in physical education by increasing physical activity (PA) levels (Melton et al., 2015), motivation (Melton et al., 3) Goal setting and individualization should accompany fitness tracking. Stand-alone fitness tracking works best when accompanied by individual goals.

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Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility in Physical Education (Part Two)

The Physical Educator

. • Using RULER As A Framework For Intentional Social and Emotional Learning. For example, Cooperative Learning (including Jigsaw Learning ) improves students’ cooperation, teamwork and social relations. In this case, XYZ could be anything from cooperation, communication skills, fitness development, teamwork, etc.