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Motivating Players in Mixed-Ability Environments

Player Development Project

As coaches, our priority should be to engage every player and facilitate enjoyable sporting experiences for all. Below, we discuss how coaches can manage the difference within teams, in order to give all players an appropriate challenge, and keep them involved, enthusiastic, and motivated.

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“He Called On It All” – A Motivational Video for Track Athletes

Physical Education Update

If you’re looking for a video to motivate your runners, check this out. It’s track and field championship season. It’s not a high quality production, but it’s set to music and the message is great. It’s called “He Called on it All.”

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Understanding Girls’ Motivation to Participate in Sport: The Effects of Social Identity and Physical Self-Concept

PE Scholar

In the current study, physical self-concept is tested as a mediator of the association between social identity and motivation.

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Encouraging greater sport participation

Learning Through Sport

There is substantial evidence of many psychological, physical, and social health benefits of participation in sport across the lifespan, including that participation in sport is associated with improved psychological and social health benefits above other forms of leisure time physical activity for children and adolescents.

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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

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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Focused success: How sports empower Shawn

Every Kids Sports

Focused success: How sports empower Shawn Meet 8-year-old baseball enthusiast Shawn. However, sports, particularly baseball, has become a powerful tool for Shawn in managing his emotions and staying focused. Nicole notes the improvements she’s seen in Shawn since he started participating in sports.

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Seven Key Ingredients For Improving Student Motivation

Skillastics

Some educators use the words motivation and engagement interchangeably, but they’re very different. Motivation, from the Latin word motivus–meaning moving–is the force or thing that prompts you to act where engagement is a feeling of belonging, commitment, or purpose towards an organization or idea.