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What to teach and Why in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

I must say that every one of my articles were written as a result of an observation, some experience, some reading and connecting it to what I think I need to do better as a Physical Education (PE) teacher. There is a lack of leveraging on the role of voluntary non-survival movement and what this means in leading a better life.

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So what now in Physical Education (PE)? A personal reflection.

Reinventing the Game

I have been lamenting on this for our practise for some time, i.e. how we introduce movement evaluation cues directly as teaching cues to our learners. Much of the cues we derive from ideal movement solution may mean little to novices who are still exploring their own range of movement adaptations.

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Reality congruent sport teaching

Learning Through Sport

Associated with that, is commentary suggesting generally a declining participation in physical activity as part of one’s valued ‘way of life’. There is limited evidence of sport teaching in physical education transferring to physical activity participation 'beyond the school gate' in any numerical sense of significance.

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Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education

PLT4M

Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education Often the responsibility for motivation is placed solely on the student in physical education (PE) classes. Teachers can fall into the trap of believing certain students don’t have the disposition for physical activity or exercise, which is far from the truth.

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Thoughts on Connected Curriculum and Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

Basketball as a 'concept' (Figure 1) for a unit of work is different to a concept based PE curriculum 'packaging' knowledge of the PE as a discipline into themes (Figure 2). Basketball as a concept might be the focus of one term of PE which is dedicated to the theme: education in movement.

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5 Tips To Technology Use In Physical Education

PLT4M

Be on the lookout for lots of great content from Sean as he helps take the academic angle of physical education best practices. Technology can be useful at enhancing teaching and learning in physical education by increasing physical activity (PA) levels (Melton et al., 2015), motivation (Melton et al.,

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Teaching Rhythm and Dance In Physical Education

The Physical Educator

The unit was built on the following grade-level outcomes: Performs a teacher and/or student-designed rhythmic activity with correct response to simple rhythms (S1.E5.2) Identifies physical activities that provide self-expression (S5.E3.2) Perform actions/movements to the beat and rhythm of a song.

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