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Is Physical Education (PE) Universal?

Reinventing the Game

The amount of administration to support teaching seems to have almost overwhelm actual direct teaching matters. There needs to be a very strong belief in our attempts to educate physically and this means much more than ensuring physical fitness and teaching a certain number of games. So recently, it has been crazy.

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Coaching using Play with Purpose

Learning Through Sport

Some of the elements which contribute to play with purpose are: Practice is game-centred, but not game only : Play is the core element of training/lessons, but directive teaching is not excluded. Small sided games may be used to teach game moments, or typical scenarios that commonly occur in a game. Sport Coach, 17(4), 30-33.

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Structures and Ecology: Linear facilitation processes vis-à-vis non-linear developmental processes in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

As I teach less towards year-end, administrative work pile up, thoughts become preoccupied with non-direct teaching matters. It was clear that reflective mood is directly proportional to how much on-the-ground teaching and observation is happening, at least for me. The mind is the body and the body is the mind.