Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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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PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

Applying Self-Determination Theory in PE Autonomy: Provide choices for students (i.e. multiple variations of an exercise, games or activities of varying difficulty, competitive vs. recreational options). Competence: Provide quality instruction and demonstrations, especially during new or novel movements/concepts.

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Motivation Physical Education Education Education 52

The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A Beat Sheet is a sheet on which different movements/actions are presented in a 4×4 grid. Perform actions/movements to the beat and rhythm of a song. If you’d like to try this activity out with your students, I recreated the tracking sheets that the teacher uses in the video. You can access those here.

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Dance Physical Education Teaching Teaching 52

PLT4M

JULY 19, 2022

For example, a teacher can focus on teaching the cognitive and psychomotor learning domains at the beginning of the year, such as the critical elements of resistance training movements (i.e. Physical education teachers’ technology practices and challenges. International Journal Of Human Movement Science , 12 (2), 27–42.

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Physical Education Education Education Motor Skills 52

Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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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Physical Education Teaching Teaching PE 130

PLT4M

JULY 18, 2023

The landscape of physical education has evolved significantly over the last decade and it is critical that PE teachers adapt accordingly. The purpose of this article is to assist PE teachers in exploring standards-based curriculum design that emphasizes a student-centered learning environment.

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Reinventing the Game

JANUARY 29, 2022

This expectation can come from internal to the school and external stakeholders, including PE teachers ourselves. PE is sometime broken up to cognitive, affective and the physical in its delivery plans. Their participation in these areas will develop and that happens mainly from trial and error. Is living it.

Physical Education 130

Physical Education PE Education Education 130

Reinventing the Game

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The big assumption I made here (not the best assumption for a holistic picture of PE but adequate for what I want to share here) is that skill acquisition is a big part of our job as PE teachers and it is necessary for us to think about it in order to do better. Much of these involve the sciences of the body in context.

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