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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. The preceding questions are good for anyone trying to figure out what they spending their entire professional life doing as PE teachers. So recently, it has been crazy. Corbin (Corbin C.

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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. The sport club PT's or 'fitness coaches', which might now be the role of an S&C coach, were often a 'phys-edder'.

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So what now in Physical Education (PE)? A personal reflection.

Reinventing the Game

Being a philosophically guided teacher is not a popular choice in a busy school environment. Many of us are driven by the explicit love of selected sports with an unclear jump to needing to teach movement as a broad life skill, resulting in PE teachers finding joy in teaching only certain games.

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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.