Informed Practitioner in Sport

APRIL 16, 2021

History provides numerous instances where hotbeds for innovation and progress have sprung up within a particular geographical location (a recent example would be silicon valley). This phenomenon occurs where you find a high concentration of bright inquisitive people who are open and enthusiastic about sharing their ideas and collaborating to create something new and interesting; this acts as a beacon that draws other bright inquisitive minds, in turn generating renewed energy and fueling further

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Learning Through Sport

APRIL 14, 2021

Critical theorising over the past thirty years presents an argument that the program design and pedagogical enactment of physical education makes little educational impact or influence on the lives of many if not most students. A deficit physical education narrative is created by the crisis and critical research for the teaching profession. At the AIESEP conference in 2016 I asked the question, ‘How might the PE and sport educational discourse develop if instead of beginning with a problem, the

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AKA Sports

APRIL 15, 2021

Perhaps you will see the parallel nature of Part I and Part II. Perhaps not. Nevertheless… I wish you all well… Here is… 52 weeks later… Part II : Getting out of your Comfort Zone If you know anything about David Goggins , Wim Hof , or Tony Robbins , you may know where I’m going to go with this. Legends in my motivational mind. Frequenters in my early morning routine earbuds.

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I Love to Watch You Play

APRIL 12, 2021

How To Protect Your Child From Addiction Nearly 1 in 5 (19.4%) of adolescents age 12 and up used an illicit drug in the past year (SAMHSA, 2018) Between 2006 and 2015, there were 36,422 adolescent and young adult drug-related deaths in the U.S. (Ali et al., 2019) In the 15-24 year age range, 50% of deaths (from accidents, homicides, suicides) involve alcohol or drug abuse.

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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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i-phys-ed

APRIL 12, 2021

As an early career teacher, physical education to me was about sports and getting kids active. But as my career has progressed and I’ve thought more about my role as a physical and health educator, I’ve started to wonder about whether the way that I teach health or engage my students in learning about health … The Role of Health in Physical Education Read More ».

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Player Development Project

APRIL 12, 2021

Player Development Project sits down with Andrew Watt, Youth Development Phase Manager at Fulham FC, to discuss how the Premier League club supports players across the U9-U16 age groups. Below, Andrew provides insights into the Fulham Academy’s principles, his views on talent identification, the different approaches to coaching kids from U9s all the way through to U16s, and how to manage the transitions to different game formats.

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RC Families

APRIL 12, 2021

Parenting love began the moment you held your child in your arms, whether they came from your womb or someone else birthed them. At first, it may seem easy to love our kids, when they are helpless, cute, and oh-so-innocent. But as they grow older, parenting love takes on more challenges as kids become resistant. Read More.

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Sports Coaching FAQ

APRIL 11, 2021

Self-confidence is a vital component of successful sports performance and is an attribute that effective sports coaches seek to develop in their athletes along side technical and tactical skills. However, self-confidence is also an important element of being an effective sports coach, and therefore it is important that a coach focuses on developing their own self-confidence to be able to more effectively support their athletes.

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Player Development Project

APRIL 12, 2021

Is psychology being embraced in coaching environments? Many modern coaching courses and clubs have improved their advocacy of sports psychology, but is there still a stigma or reluctance to hone in on the psychological component of coaching? New PDP contributor, Blaine McKenna shares his research after a survey of coaches in Northern Ireland working in the game as to how they engage with psychology in their coaching environment.

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Lampe

APRIL 12, 2021

Greg Dryer is the Co-founder of miMove app. He’s based in London, UK but the app is being used in over 200 schools around the world. Greg can be contacted at greg@mimoveapp.com or @greg_dryer / @mimoveapp. Squirrels. In the literature about meaning-making, squirrels do not feature particularly prominently.

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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.

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