Skillastics

JUNE 23, 2022

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. Movement and physical activity truly helps kids think and learn differently. We are so excited to have partnered with physical education leaders, bringing joy and fun back to movement for two decades!

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Drowning in the Shallow

JANUARY 29, 2022

Children and young people will not automatically improve their movement, health, academic success or their pro-social behaviours just by participating in the subject. To ensure … Continue reading 20 mistakes I’ve made in my 20 years of teaching PE.

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Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Here we break down that impact and take a closer look at why gymnastics is an essential sport to teach in primary school. Teaching gymnastics develops key physical skills. Which leads us on to our next point… Teaching gymnastics is in line with the national curriculum.

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Drowning in the Shallow

MAY 4, 2024

I’m unconvinced that there is one best way to organise and teach physical education. Supporting children to value and find a place for movement in their lives is a complex and dynamic task.

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Reinventing the Game

JUNE 15, 2021

These pair of words may sound simplistic and maybe even having negative literal connotations at first, especially if you have never encountered it with relation to learning and probably off-putting to someone who wants to teach better and got no appetite for seemingly obscure concepts. The concept of non-linear development comes in.

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Physical Education Ideas

DECEMBER 31, 2023

teaching in regard to the four domains of physical literacy. When we teach, we know it is our job to get students moving and enjoy being active because we know (or should know) that everyone has the potential to value, develop and maintain positive physical activity behaviors for life. Choose something that you gravitate towards.

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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?

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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!

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Human Kinetics

JULY 18, 2022

Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, Fourth Edition , is the one must-have book for all new and veteran elementary physical education teachers! A corresponding picture for each cue shows proper movement form, which allows students to see and say as they do to mesh auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning.

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The PE Specialist

AUGUST 3, 2023

In this post I’m excited to let you know about a new resource that we’ve created to assist in helping students learn the basic fundamental movement patterns that many of us refer to as Locomotor Movements (Skip, Slide, Gallop, Jump, Hop, Leap etc) This is a project that’s been in […]

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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.

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The PE Hub

JUNE 29, 2023

Whilst we still encourage activity over the hotter months, it’s important to bear a few important considerations when teaching safe PE in the heat. High-energy activities that involve a lot of running or movement can cause more stress and lead to faster increases in body temperature.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 5, 2021

How then do we coach to teach players to concentrate - metaphorically, to shine an intentional 'spotlight' on the things to attend to? Oliver and Colleagues (2020) proposed that teaching players to understand their attention is teaching them concentrate. McCarthy, P. & Burns, L.

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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.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 24, 2022

Students around the field are throwing and catching discs, learning movement skills, encouraging one another, and enjoying physical activity in the process. Grade-Level Outcome (Grade 4): Praises the movement performance of others both more skilled and less skilled. I threw it too far,” the thrower apologizes. That is the “structure.”.

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Learning Through Sport

JULY 13, 2021

There are many versions of game-based approache s to sport teaching and coaching. However, it is more accurate to think of a GBA as a range of teaching styles or a “toolkit” of styles. place less emphasis on the development of specified techniques and more emphasis on adaptive movement responses; and 4.

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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This means that precise movements are needed in push-ups and sit-ups to trigger the automatic count. This is not easy to talk about on as they are those in the fraternity who take this very seriously and equates it to effective teaching, especially the more experienced teachers. How about sport/game skills or abilities?

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Gopher PE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Activities in physical education often teach children important classroom skills including following instructions, making decisions, problem-solving, teamwork, and self-regulation. Using rhythmic patterns to teach math concepts or language skills not only makes learning more engaging, but it also makes learning more effective.

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SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

Steven was a joy to teach with and so very knowledgeable. Bicycle Grants The CYCLE Kids grant (valued at $25,000) provides schools with 10 new bikes, helmets, a bike pump, and textbooks that teach cycle basics as well as nutrition. We have the bikes at my school for as long as we use them and teach the nutrition curriculum.

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Aspire-Ed

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It helps children master fundamental movement skills. As a result, it’s seen as a difficult and dangerous sport to teach, with teachers left apprehensive about delivering lessons. So how do you move from fearing the sport to making it one of your favourite to teach? Over 18 years teaching gymnastics in schools.

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SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Never underestimate your ability to create and teach new games and activities. Encourage them to teach you the rules and skills of the games. Make new friends through movement. Introduce new games that are easy to learn, but fun to play. Make sure they don’t need any equipment so students can play outside of your class time.

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Moving Minds Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

The post Incorporating Students with Special Needs into Movement Breaks appeared first on Moving Minds Blog. When you give your class the chance to move, it’s important to make activity as accessible to all students to the best extent possible. Often, it [.].

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Physical Education Ideas

DECEMBER 30, 2023

To be clear, when talking about physical literacy, we are not talking about teaching kids the ABCs whilst getting them active. If you can teach a student a game that gets them off a device – that’s physical literacy. If you can teach a student a game that gets them off a device – that’s physical literacy.

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Learning Through Sport

JUNE 13, 2021

Engaging in this contested space, I did my doctoral study on curriculum and pedagogical innovation for sport teaching, which I termed sport literacy as I theorised sport teaching in PE using multi-literacy theory (Drummond & Pill, 2011; Pill, 2009, 2010). if interested, see here ).

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Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 9, 2021

It matters when we acknowledge that the movement is a life-skill and the recipients of our services are differentiated with many needs. May leverage on a specific context, e.g. the teaching of concepts in an invasion game, to deliver pedagogy ideas better. whatever that is necessary when it comes to teaching and learning in our field.

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PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

At PLT4M, we recommend teaching gymnastic skills to the entire class allowing ample students time to practice the movements together. 2) Tumbling – Forward Roll For all of our tumbling movements in gymnastics lesson plans, we want to move with control. Option to modify the movement by bringing your feet further apart.

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PLT4M

MAY 26, 2023

Instead, most teacher professional development offered throughout the school year is geared towards general teaching practices or other subjects like math, science, and english. When teachers feel more confident teaching and developing these fundamental skills, they can enhance student learning.

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Gopher PE

APRIL 19, 2024

Key Components of Standard 4: Standard 4 states that students should develop personal skills, identify personal benefits of movement, and choose to engage in physical activity that is personally meaningful. Social connections through movement will not be fostered if someone does not move. We need our young people to meet Standard 4!

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Gopher PE

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”!

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Sports Coaching FAQ

JANUARY 6, 2021

This article will outline how to teach this skill to a child. When teaching a kid to overarm throw the following progression steps should be taken: Wrist flick Elbow flick Stationary throw – Arm only Stationary throw – Body turn Side on Dynamic throw. Step 3 – Stationary Throw – Arm only. Step 4 – Stationary Throw – Body turn.

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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.

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Learning Through Sport

JULY 11, 2023

This study showed that personalised teaching with a focus on mastery learning leads to two standard deviation improvement in student learning outcomes as it enabled teachers to give more attention to student ‘higher mental processes’ – problem-solving, application of principles, analytical skills, and creativity. AI makes it possible.

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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.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

MARCH 18, 2023

He is also the coauthor of the Corwin Bestseller The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning through Movement, a book and philosophy that has changed the view of teaching and learning around the world.

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Gopher PE

JANUARY 3, 2024

Objective: To allow for movement that develops different locomotor skills and spatial awareness, and to help students understand the food groups and proper nutrition. Get ready to combine fitness and nutrition in an engaging nutrition activity! This activity can be done in the classroom or the gym.)

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I use is Physical Literacy: the knowledge, skills, and agency to enjoy a lifetime of daily movement. Lifelong daily movement leads to increased happiness and health and correlates to higher academic achievement and earnings potential. A balanced curriculum of kinetics and academics allows educators to teach physical literacy.

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Moving Minds Blog

MAY 17, 2018

Starting into my third year of teaching I realized something, I HATED traditional seats and the amount [ ] The post Take a Seat… or Don’t: Small Seating Changes to Increase Movement in the Classroom appeared first on Moving Minds Blog. I use a variety of flexible seating options to help meet this goal.

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