Alexandra Lemm
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
At our last district professional development, I had the honor of presenting one of my very favorite teaching topics, stations with intervention ! For elementary school teachers, intervention might be something that is done weekly and can be handled with your eyes closed. However, with middle school and high school teachers, station groups with a teacher table are not necessarily common.
Changing the Game Project
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Yesterday was a tough day. It was a tough day because I had a conversation with another coaching friend who had lost his job. He was not fired for doing anything illegal. He was not fired for anything inappropriate. He was not fired for bullying or demeaning behavior. He was complimented for his integrity and. The post Another Great Coach Bites the Dust.
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Player Development Project
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Have you had a conversation with your players about why they play football? What is it that motivates them to turn up to training, sometimes three or more times a week, no matter what the conditions? In this article, resident positive psychology expert Lara Mossman looks at the ways in which coaches can empower players to become self-motivated. It’s likely that across your team there will be a variety of different reasons why players turn up.
PE with Palos
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
By: Kelly Zerby. It’s never too early to start planning for your end of the year Field Day. If your school has such an event, it can be an amazing time for your staff and students to end the year on a positive note. If you don’t have an event like this, consider hosting one. It is a lot of planning, but once you get it down, it will roll in the years to come.
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.
The PhysEd Coach
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Introduction Are you ready for some football? Hearing those legendary words sung by Hank Williams Jr. warms my heart. It makes me think of Monday Night Football and how I truly love the sport. I first started playing football when I was 12. I was an offensive and defensive lineman. Though I had a passion […]. The post [Guest Post]How I Teach Football – by Jim Hambel appeared first on The #Physed Coach.
Whole Child Sports
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
With these six basic pieces of equipment, you can engage your kids in fun, challenging athletic training at home. Vew-Do NUB Boards. This safe and fun balance-trainingdevice helps a child develop body awareness, core strength, and rotational movement. In addition, the boards replicate board sports (skateboarding, snowboarding, surfng) movements. These boards are fractions of an inch off the ground, so they do not easily slip out from under the child (appropriate for Stages Two to Four).
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Player Development Project
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Stephen Rollnick is a pioneer in motivational interviewing and in recent years has been applying his knowledge to sport. In this article, Stephen offers a psychology perspective on the key differences between praise and affirmation with young athletes. “When you’re that young, it doesn’t take a lot to be encouraged, or discouraged. they raised my game. they saw something in me I didn’t see in myself.
Player Development Project
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
In the final part of our Melbourne Victory U20 sessions, UEFA A licensed coach, Dave Wright puts on a 10 vs. 10 phase of play. The theme of the session is defending deep in a 1-4-4-2 vs. a 1-3-5-2. Due to the number of players, the practice is executed in a 1-4-4-1 vs. a 3-5-2 with the goalkeeper playing as a keeper and centre back for the attacking team.
Player Development Project
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
PDP Video Session Plans are adaptable sessions designed by academy coach, Dave Wright. All sessions show key focus points, set up, and progressions so you can use them in your next practice. The post Pressing 1 v 1 appeared first on Player Development Project.
Player Development Project
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
In this session UEFA A licensed coach, Dave Wright continues on his defensive work with the Melbourne Victory U20 group. The practice is designed to encourage players to collaborate and work together in units to block forward and split passes. Dave demonstrates some gradual progressions to allow attackers and defenders to move into opposition zones and create more chaos.
Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker
Physical education is an important part of the development of the whole person: physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively. By providing education in movement competency, education on using movement to develop the ability to be self-regulated and motivated, and education through movement to develop ‘habits of mind’ for positive and constructive engagement with others, PE provides a basis for personal and community health and wellbeing.
PE with Palos
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Yoga has become a very popular activity over the years–and for good reason. Not only does it increase flexibility, muscle strength and tone– it has proven to better one’s mental health and even increase respiration, energy, vitality and so much more. With so many benefits, it’s a no brainer that we should be sharing this form of exercise with our students!
Player Development Project
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
In this practice, UEFA A licensed coach, Dave Wright gets out on the grass with a group of Melbourne Victory U20 players. Dave sets up three stations for the players to work on 1v1 defending in groups of four. The session is designed to recreate a turnover and get players thinking about defensive decisions, when to press and when to hold, whilst encouraging attackers to express themselves and be creative.
Player Development Project
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
How do you decide what coaching practices to deliver? And what process do you follow when designing the practice? Fulham FC Head of Coaching and regular PDP contributor, Ben Bartlett shares an article from Hive Learning which provides steps 1 and 2 of the 6 stage process he uses to design effective coaching practices. “We must help coaches understand and rationalise why they coach and behave in the way they do rather than settling for mimicking others”.
Player Development Project
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Creativity values, culture, systems and control. What does it all mean and how does it impact coaching and sporting environments? In this Masterclass Discussion, PDP Editor, Dave Wright hosts Co-Founder of my fastest mile, Mark Upton alongside PDP Lead Researcher and AIK Academy Coach, James Vaughan. In this wide-ranging conversation, the guys discuss some of James’ Phd research and his recently published paper on creativity, as well as diving down a number of rabbit holes such as: Challenging t
Whole Child Sports
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Question: I’m a mom, and I don’t know much about sports. Everywhere I go, I see mostly men in charge. I’d like to try to coach, but I’m not all that confident. I don’t know if I’d be good at it. Discussion: Becoming a youth coach is not as complicated as it would seem. Yes, it’s still primarily a male dominated world, and that may give you pause, but the men you see patrolling the sidelines—clipboards in hand—come from a very mixed bag of sporting backgrounds and successes.
Whole Child Sports
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
By Scott Lancaster and Luis Fernando Llosa. 1. Strengthen the Correct Muscles Too many trainers fail to train female athletes correctly. Their training programs focus on the front of the body: • thighs • chest • abdominals. They neglect the back half of the body: • glutes. • hamstrings. • back. • calves. Female athletes should not be trained like their male counterparts.
Whole Child Sports
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The objective of this course is to provide a dynamic fitness workout that promotes playful experimentation. This obstacle course activity helps children develop agility, balance, coordination, and body strength. How each child attempts to move through the course can add variety to the training experience. Kids may elect to move laterally, backward, or forward.
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