Thu.Sep 29, 2022

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The Masters Golf Tournament Uses Sissy Grass

Physical Education Update

This was the weekend of the Masters golf tournament. What I find most fascinating about the Masters are the close-ups of balls resting on the carpet-like fairways. The grass it’s so uniform and short it looks like artificial turf. I am your stereotypical duffer and the courses I play on are not championship caliber. Dead patches and divots are the norm.

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Domestic Violence Awareness Month: What’s Your Role?

A Positive Approach To Teen Health

Domestic Violence Awareness Month: What’s your role? October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Domestic violence (DV) impacts the lives of everyone, whether this impact is direct or indirect. To create positive change, we must increase the protective factors for our youth, which includes ending the stigma surrounding DV. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the impact domestic violence has on our communities.

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I pressed the button: PE exam marking now leads the world

The Everlearner

Last week, my team and I struck a button ?. That button was a technical one but it meant that machine learning (ML) as part of ExamSimulator became the primary vehicle for identifying correct responses in students’ PE exam answers. Until this point, as students wrote prose-based responses to PE exam questions (including extended writing essays), manually written mark schemes were the primary vehicle of comparison and machine learning was used as a back-up.

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Genuine Movement Learning Through a Deleuzian Approach

PE Scholar

How Deleuzian concepts can stimulate thinking and understanding of movement learning, and provide insights about pedagogical implications.

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Reimagine the Role of PE to Reconnect With Your Students

Speaker: Jeremy Kellem, M.Ed. - Educational Strategist, Former Athlete, and CEO/Founder of W.I.N. (We Impact Now, LLC)

For many students, physical education is critical to becoming active and developing healthy routines. But how is this possible anymore with the repercussions of the pandemic? Years of COVID-19, social distancing, and virtual learning have all had a profound effect on students, which means educators need to adjust their classes accordingly. The good news is that P.E. can still play a vital role in helping students intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially.

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Preparing Children for School Emergencies

FACTS Management

Whether you’re someone with your calendar filled out a year in advance or someone that books vacations hours before the flight leaves, having a plan in place for an emergency is incredibly important – especially when it comes to your children. No one understands this better than schools, who devote countless hours to creating emergency plans to keep their students safe, from running fire drills to crafting detailed communication plans.

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Three-points: Over 40 years of the three-point system 

The Sporting

A history of the three-point system in football Three points for a win in football seems as old as time itself. Many football fans grew up with the concept of three points for a win, one for a draw and zero points for a loss. Yet, fans may not realise three points for a win is a newer concept. FIFA, the governing body of world football, didn't adopt the three points for-a-win rule until after the 1994 World Cup.

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Top 5 Greatest International NBA Players

The Sporting

The best international players in the NBA Although basketball was invented in the United States and it has a deep history there, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some great players who have come to the US and become great players. In some cases, international NBA players have even entered the Hall of Fame! In this article, we will discuss the top 5 greatest international NBA players , including Dirk Nowitzki (Germany), Luka Donic (Slovenia), Dikembe Mutombo (Democratic Republic of the Congo),

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Question to Members – PE Matters

Association for Physical Education

afPE’s termly member journal, ‘Physical Education Matters’ is published in hardcopy and also available online, via the members’ area of the afPE website. We would like to ask members to […]. The post Question to Members – PE Matters appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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