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Physical Education Training Produces Better Academic Teachers

Physical Education Update

One thing about physical educators is that they realize the value of making lessons fun. They also realize that an active child is a child better able to learn. This often applies for those physical educators who teach academic subjects. A great example is Marilyn Rodgers of Hernando High school in Desoto Mississipi, an experienced physical educator whose teaching skills were considered too valuable to be wasted on “gym.” Instead she was placed in a history classroom where she remain

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Post-Shot Expected Goals (PSxG): What is it and why does it matter?

The Sporting

Explaining Post-Shot Expected Goals (PSxG): Part of our series on new forms of football statistics. Part 1 of 3 in a mini-series on modern football’s most cutting-edge statistics, by Sollie Cook. In recent years, football clubs and fans alike have become increasingly obsessed with stats as a means of understanding player and team performance. This fascination with numbers has led many clubs across Europe towards a data-driven approach to their recruitment and training methods in pursuit of a fai

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Holiday Caroling Tag – Game of the Week

Keeping Kids in Motion

For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting a holiday game of the week. Don’t miss out! Be sure to subscribe for notifications. This week’s game is called, HOLIDAY CAROLING TAG. Scrooge, Grinch, and Jack Frost are once again feeling grumpy this holiday season.

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How To Gain Maximum Benefits Following Your Team’s World Cup Break

First Beat

With the FIFA World Cup in full swing, many European soccer teams are having a short break during this time. This break period allows teams to build their strategies, work with their conditioning elements and enables the players not playing for their national teams to recover from their demanding schedule. From a conditioning point of view the question arises: What should the teams and players consider to gain maximum benefits from the break?

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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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Food Container Rant

Physical Education Update

This is the tale of an invention rendered ineffective because of corporate greed. Strictly speaking, it’s not a physical education issue, but it does affect any teacher who packs a lunch for school or team trips. What invention am I talking about? Plastic food storage containers. I’m the king of leftovers. I eat them for most lunches. And when I pack for team trips, I usually pack my travel munchies in a plastic storage container so they don’t get scrunched.

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Italian Football Stadiums - The Complete Guide to all 64 Stadiums

The Sporting

A guide to the wonderful world of all 64 Italian football stadiums! One would only expect that the land that built the Colosseum as a symbol of entertainment would also have great stadiums and be super passionate about modern-day sports such as football. And they would be absolutely correct! The worldwide passion for football is shared by both the Italian players and their fierce supporters.

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PE Games – Christmas Activities

The PE Specialist

What’s Up Phys Ed Friends! So, let’s be honest, you (and your students) are probably counting down the days to Christmas Break – am I right? Expect your students to be off the walls as they await all the joys that 2 weeks out of school and the promise of brand new toys can bring. Don’t […].

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PE Students Need Senior Citizen Role-Models

Physical Education Update

One of the primary goals of any physical education program is the development of our students’ ability to maintain an active lifestyle throughout their lives. I’m the beneficiary of my own school experience in PE and sport. I still play a weekly game of old-man’s basketball – in my old high school gym with some of my old high school schoolmates – in a ritual that has been part of that school since the mid-1960’s.

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The 5 Best Belgian Footballers of all-time

The Sporting

The 5 Greatest ever Belgian Footballers While often underappreciated due to a lack of major international honours, Belgium is still widely renowned for the amount of talent it produces on a regular basis. But who are Belgium’s greatest players? The Belgians tend to perform well in major tournaments despite a dearth of silverware; and these performances stretch across different eras, illustrating a collective mentality gotten through patriotism and pride rather than solely individual quality.

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Montessori Physical Education and Tomorrow's Child Magazine

Montessori Physical Education

Thanksgiving gives us time to be with friends and family. For educators, we get a much-needed break. However, we can't help thinking about our educational practices even when we are supposed to be resting. For our classroom teachers, it is conference time, which allows us time to reflect on our students and our own instruction. One of these topics is how to increase Social and Emotional Learning in our classroom.

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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

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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DFH Position Statement : Nicotinamide riboside (NR) and Cancer

Designs for Health

In recent days a small, preclinical study by Maric T et al.,2022 has gained a lot of media attention, due to claims that the study has found a potential link between supplementation with nicotinamide riboside (NR) and the risk of developing cancer and metastasis in immunocompromised mice inoculated with an aggressive type of breast cancer cells. . This, and any individual study’s findings, need to be considered alongside the totality of evidence available to date.

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Recreational Sports Facilities & Physical Education SAVE Taxpayers’ Money!

Physical Education Update

You may have been involved in a such a debate – whether your local government should invest in local sports facilities – perhaps to be housed on your school property. While it didn’t involve school property, my hometown has just been involved in such a political donnybrook. Our mayor, in my mind a forward-looking politician, proposed a multi-use sports facility and performing arts centre for our city of 155,000.

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The 28 top goal scorers in football history

The Sporting

The top goalscorers in the history of Football: All of these footballers have scored 500 goals or more playing at a professional level There are 28 footballers who have scored more than 500 goals in their career, and remarkably, 3 of them are still playing. These are, without doubt, the top goalscorers in football history. Some of the statistics are a little bit questionable, and also times have changed in terms of the number of games played, and the quality of the opposition etc.

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Torn: My Approach to the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar

The Everlearner

It was 4th July 1990, relatively late in the evening. I was surrounded by coloured glass, including glass in my hair and in my lap?. Stuart Pearce, captain of my boyhood team, Nottingham Forest, was standing four or five metres outside of the penalty area waiting to make his customary long run up to smash a penalty at the goal. I took a deep breath simultaneously with the England player on the screen.

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Warning as PE ‘Squeezed Out’ for Exam Students

Association for Physical Education

23/11/2022 Curriculum and accountability pressures in schools have resulted in a 20% fall in allocated PE lessons for GCSE students, research suggests. Subject leads in schools surveyed as part of […]. The post Warning as PE ‘Squeezed Out’ for Exam Students appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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Concept Curriculum: Leading Meaningful Change in PE CPD at The KIA Oval, Jan 2023

PE Scholar

Book now for the Concept Curriculum: Leading Meaningful Change in PE event at The KIA Oval, London, UK on Monday 16th January 2023.

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Hulk Hogan: The man who took wrestling mainstream

The Sporting

Hulk Hogan: A profile of wrestling’s biggest superstar If we’re talking about professional wrestling, we have to start with Hulk Hogan. He’s not the first wrestler ever, and he’s not the first to be popular, but he is the person who is most often attributed with lending the most to breaking wrestling into mainstream awareness. Hulkamania ran wild all through the ’80s and ’90s.

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HOLIDAY BUNDLE – 3 Pack of challenges for kids to do throughout the HOLIDAY SEASON!

Keeping Kids in Motion

Holiday Bundle 3-Pack includes three cool activities for school and home. FiT WiTH LiT BINGO – Students alternate between reading and exercise challenges throughout the holiday season. FiT WiTH LiT includes the challenge, a blank template to create your BINGO card and a participation.

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Sure Breaking Limits Programme – For Primary and Secondary Schools

Association for Physical Education

23/11/2022 Sure Breaking Limits by The National Schools Partnership is a new curriculum-linked initiative equipping pupils aged 9-14 across the UK with the confidence to move by making it fun, […]. The post Sure Breaking Limits Programme – For Primary and Secondary Schools appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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KS3 Rugby Student Worksheets

PE Scholar

These KS3 Rugby Skills Worksheets provide 5 student tasks for each skill. The skills include Pass, Evade & Attack Space, Tackle and Defend.

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Streetfighter 2 - From the arcade to the living room and beyond

The Sporting

Street Fighter 2 and the growth of fighting games in esports The frantic clicking of the buttons. The furious rolling of arcade sticks. The bated breath of onlookers. This was the atmosphere you’d find yourself in from the moment you set foot in a 90s arcade. Such a captivating setting could describe a lot of titles emblazoned above the flickering cabinets but there was one that drew in the bigger crowds: Street Fighter 2.

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Herbal Astragalus to Promote Immune Health

Designs for Health

For more than 2,000 years, astragalus ( Astragalus membranaceus ) has been considered to be one of the most important and widely used adaptogenic herbs in traditional Chinese medicine. More than 100 compounds in astragalus have been identified to hold clinical significance in vivo or in vitro, including flavonoids, saponins, polysaccharides, and amino acids.

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sports equal…choice.

Every Kids Sports

Why youth sports are important to me By Arch Fuston, Board President, Every Kid Sports. Sport is one of the many constants we can have in our lives. It can be a refuge. It can be a social hub. It can be an outlet. More often than not, it’s all of those and more. Two that I have an affinity for are the boundless nature of sports and the opportunity they provide to train our inner athlete. .

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Perceptions of Contextual Stressors in Physical Education: A Qualitative Case Study

PE Scholar

Research exploring students' stressors in PE and highlights the volume and variety of potential stressors in PE contexts.

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Starting a bulk - 8 bulking tips for your weight gain journey

The Sporting

Beginning your bulk - 8 Tips for bulking that worked for me. Bulking Tips to help with your weight gain journey So before you read on, let me make it clear that I have been in your position, and I’m in it again myself right now. I have lost a load of weight because of Coronavirus and gyms being closed. However, I am starting my bulk now, and over the years I have done a few, so these bulking tips are from experience.

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What Silent Messages are You Sending to your Children in Your Body Language?

RC Families

Every day you are sending silent messages through your body language to your kids in the form of non-verbal communication. Psychologist Albert Mehrabian published a book about it in the 1970s and his conclusion was this: When it comes to credibility, Mehrabian found that we assign 55% of the weight to body language, 35% to. Read More.

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How to engage a community and keep them moving, with tmactive

My Zone

A much catchier name, tmactive is short for Tonbridge and Malling Leisure Trust. This charitable, not-for-profit company is in partnership with the local council to bring, among other things, exciting opportunities for movement to more people.

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How Listening to Students Can Increased Enjoyment in PE

PE Scholar

Lee Sullivan explains how listening to students can improve student enjoyment in every physical education lesson.

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Grenade! Reviewing every flavour Grenade Carb Killa Protein Bar

The Sporting

Nutrition: Which pin to pull? We review every flavour Grenade Carb Killa protein bar. In the complicated and faux science world of protein bars, only Grenade has elevated its product to a place that no protein bar has gone before: The supermarket checkout shelf…but which Carb Killa flavour is the best? btw this is not a sponsored post. Yes, protein bars have been available in supermarkets, but they are normally tucked away in a dark corner with energy bars and sports gels.

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Physical Activity vs. Movement: Consider Both For Your After School Program

Skillastics

Words can ignite certain feelings in us. These feelings are usually connected to experiences we’ve had at some point in our lives. For instance, the word family may mean something totally different to two people, depending upon each individual’s experiences. Movement is defined as changing the position of one’s body parts relative to each other. Physical activity is defined as intentional voluntary movement directed toward achieving a goal.

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Faculty Spotlight: Pelle Kvalsund

MSU

Welcome to the SCLA Faculty, Pelle! Pelle is a happy spouse and father of two active boys in a family that spans three continents. He has a deep love for people, culture, food, and of sport, play and physical activity. As a former high-performance athlete in Norway, he learned how the connection between coaches and athletes impacts the players sport experience and performance.

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Botanicals to Support the Endothelial Glycocalyx and Vascular Health

Designs for Health

Emerging research has been exploring the relationship between vascular health, certain botanicals, and the endothelial glycocalyx (EGX). The EGX is the first line of defense in the vessel walls. It is a thin gel-like layer that lines the endothelium — the layer of vessel walls that separates the tissue from the circulating blood. Every artery, vein, and capillary is lined with the EGX, which consists of a mesh of glycoproteins , proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, and plasma proteins.

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The Young Jimmie Foxx: How the Farm Boy Became the Beast of Baseball

The Sporting

From farm boy to baseball hero: the story of young Jimmie Foxx This article is based on interviews with the family and high school teammates of Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx. A three-time AL MVP, Foxx hit 534 home runs in his career with the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies. Some early box scores spelt it Fox, but the family name was Foxx for at least three generations before Jim was born.

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sports equal…choice.

Every Kids Sports

Why youth sports are important to me By Arch Fuston, Board President, Every Kid Sports. Sport is one of the many constants we can have in our lives. It can be a refuge. It can be a social hub. It can be an outlet. More often than not, it’s all of those and more. Two that I have an affinity for are the boundless nature of sports and the opportunity they provide to train our inner athlete.

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Physical Activity vs. Movement: Consider Both For Your After School Program

Skillastics

Words can ignite certain feelings in us. These feelings are usually connected to experiences we’ve had at some point in our lives. For instance, the word family may mean something totally different to two people, depending upon each individual’s experiences. Movement is defined as changing the position of one’s body parts relative to each other. Physical activity is defined as intentional voluntary movement directed toward achieving a goal.