Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. Adventure Education.

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

MAY 4, 2025

The game was traditionally used not just for recreation but also for training, storytelling, and strengthening community bonds. When the gods were separated, it birthed creation and became the source of movement and purpose, which, for the Polynesian culture, was the purpose of life: discovery through wayfinding.

Dance

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Never underestimate your ability to create and teach new games and activities. Investigate local parks and recreation organizations that offer summer camps, activities, or sports teams and enroll your children in activities that interest them. Encourage them to teach you the rules and skills of the games.

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Include at least three motor skills and one foundational movement skill every Motor Skill Monday (every day is even better!) Locomotor skills are the fundamental motor skills we most often associate with successful movement, especially in sports. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

Motor Skills

Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 27, 2021

The amount of administration to support teaching seems to have almost overwhelm actual direct teaching matters. Do we need more space and time to think of teaching and learning? It is space and time that comes with joy and satisfaction in teaching and learning for teachers. So recently, it has been crazy.

Physical Education

Reinventing the Game

MAY 1, 2021

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.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Because we are the movement experts. Teach students games they can play on their own during PE time. Teach and review playground safety with students , especially with playground structures such as monkey bars. Ask most elementary students what their favorite school activity is, and they will most likely respond “RECESS”!

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 10, 2021

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. Teaching for understanding argument. Teaching for understanding argument. Sport as useful. Utility argument. Sport as understood. Sport as enjoyed.

Teaching

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Francis’s School (STFS) in Western Australia, the Physical Education (PE) program plays a crucial role in helping students rediscover their love for movement and physical activity. A Unique Setting and Program Structure The PE program at St. “We have three PE teachers, but we also teach other subjects like math and food studies.”

Movement

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 4, 2022

- How do we address the decline in general movement ability? It 'paints a picture' of countries like Australia confronting a movement ability 'crises'. However, as Stephen Harvey and I wrote in our review of 20 years of research on movement competence here this movement ability crisis is now well documented and established.

Teaching

Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 23, 2020

My intention with the class is to allow some autonomy for the students and connecting it to a learning process where I get students to contemplate what they are doing and connecting it to the bigger picture of why certain movements seem more attractive over others. I see value in both views.

Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JULY 24, 2023

She started her career teaching at The Perkins School for the Blind in the Deafblind program. She is co-director of The Institute on Movement Studies for Individuals with Visual Impairments or Deafblindness (IMSVI)( See www.brockport.edu/IMSVI ). Lieberman Ph.D.

Physical Education

The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dance is a polarizing subject in the world of physical education: some teachers love to teach it, other teachers can’t even imagine themselves teaching it. We teach them to love dancing, as early and often as possible. I understand the importance of support musicality when teaching dance. Let’s dive in!

Dance

PLT4M

MARCH 6, 2023

Alex has an undergraduate degree in Physical Education Teaching and a master’s degree in Curriculum and Teaching in Physical Education. Informal recreation or play on school grounds Assess the accessibility of playgrounds and outdoor play areas and make changes to improve access.

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

Cleland’s (2011) depiction of an enriched learning environment in PE should be considered together with M cBride's (1991b, 1997) suggestion that PE teachers need to use teaching styles that promote inquiry, in addition to creating movement contexts and activity environments designed to foster the dispositions that support thinking processes.

Convergent Discovery

Gopher Sport

MAY 3, 2023

Engaging in these activities not only provides all the benefits of engaging in movement, but they also offer the benefits of being outside. Issues like “I don’t know enough”, “I don’t have the equipment”, “I can’t make walking enjoyable”, or “We live in the middle of corn fields, I can’t teach fun outdoor stuff”. How to stay safe?

PE

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Personalized system of instruction has been proven to be an effective method of teaching and learning within courses focusing on health-related fitness and weight training. PSI is a unique model of teaching and learning that has shown to be an effective strategy within fitness-based. 29 Hannon et al.,

Physical Education

Spark PE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Which unit or specific lessons are selected to address this standard may be impacted by factors such as available equipment, facilities, time/teaching schedules, weather, and community/cultural interests. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Elementary Standards: 1) Movement patterns and movement skills—locomotor skills.

Movement

Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Basketball as a concept might be the focus of one term of PE which is dedicated to the theme: education in movement. Basketball as a series of concepts to enable technical and tactical teaching as complimentary pairings Figure 2. recreation centre programs) or through 'levels' (e.g. sport clubs) and terms or semesters (e.g.

Physical Education

PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

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. Use reciprocal and self-check teaching styles. Avoid framing activities as “required.” Bonus Content!

Motivation

PLT4M

JULY 19, 2022

Technology can be useful at enhancing teaching and learning in physical education by increasing physical activity (PA) levels (Melton et al., Specific teaching strategies to accompany technology can be helpful for teachers to ensure efficacy. In this article, Sean explores technology use in physical education. in a traditional manner.

Physical Education

Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

There is a lack of leveraging on the role of voluntary non-survival movement and what this means in leading a better life. If wanting to go deeper, a brief summarised thinking like this may not affect sufficiently the understanding of the role of physical movement in individual development. Is this Physical Literacy?

Physical Education

Reinventing the Game

JANUARY 29, 2022

This type of versus discussions puts many off almost immediately, especially those in teaching where everything is based on neat time-based structures. As I teach less towards year-end, administrative work pile up, thoughts become preoccupied with non-direct teaching matters. The main researchers in these areas (CLA, NP, etc.)

Physical Education

Reinventing the Game

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I am inspired to go further and try to understand the role of movement within our world. This requires some acknowledgement of the importance of philosophy of existence, i.e. how and why do we behave for survival and recreation. Much of these involve the sciences of the body in context.

Conditioning

PLT4M

JULY 18, 2023

This entails teaching fundamental prerequisites and implementing an elective model that enhances student participation by offering a more comprehensive range of choices. Also popular were alternative Lifetime Fitness courses like HITT Bootcamps, Dance and Boxing, along with Recreational Activities like Spikeball, Pickleball, and Kan-Jam.

Physical Education

Stanford Childrens

MARCH 25, 2024

The sessions are shorter than usual, with frequent recess; and especial attention paid to recreation,” wrote Jessie Treat, chairman of the home. Eventually she married, had three children, obtained a teaching credential, and became a high school social studies and English teacher. A teacher and students work on lessons, circa 1960.

Schooling

Changing the Game Project

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Thanks to the extravagant investment in kids sports, parents’ Olympian commitment to their children’s recreation, and the exalted role of athletics in higher education,” she writes,“ much of what we love about youth sports – and why we want our children to play –, has been eroded.” Perhaps that’s a massive understatement.

Dance

Spark PE

JANUARY 14, 2022

All in-person recreation was closed, including youth sports, dance, martial arts, and exercise classes. Physical education should teach through physical activity, and there are several evidence-based programs available, including SPARK. In many places, parks, playgrounds, trails, and even beaches were closed.

Physical Activity