PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

Some focus heavily on teaching individual skillslike dribbling or jumpingbut lack engaging, fun activity ideas. Others offer exciting games but fail to connect those activities to broader goals, such as physical literacy or teaching foundational skills. Another significant challenge is the cost of high-quality resources.

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Learning Through Sport

MARCH 23, 2025

While recreation sport in curriculum time didn't feature in any of the schools I worked in, when I started my teaching career in the late 1980s, in many jurisdictions school sport was still in curriculum time. Wretman (2017) found participation in school sport had a significant standardised effect on academic achievement.

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Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. Their self-image as both an athlete and a child becomes tightly woven into how well they perform.

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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. Intellectual – the argument that provision of science, theory and understanding a person will be able to knowingly plan for wellness. Sport as useful.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

While Christi has retired from teaching after over 30 years in the field, she is still sharing insights and ideas for PE programs across the country. A key component to your promotion toolbox is a well defined mission and philosophy statement. Check out her actionable steps to funding physical education programs.

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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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Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Basketball as a series of concepts to enable technical and tactical teaching as complimentary pairings Figure 2. Ken is well known in Australian PE through his work at Edith Cowan Uni and the SPARK research centre translating Siedentop's Sport Education model into Australian HPE curriculum as the "SEPEP Program' in the late 1990s.

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FACTS Management

MAY 13, 2022

At the same time, staff shortages have meant that even when school counselors are on campus, they may be drafted to teach classes or substitute instead of providing dedicated mental health services. These problems have only been exacerbated by the pandemic – which has been reflected in the mental health of students.

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Informed Practitioner in Sport

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It is similarly crucial that we understand the true purpose of teaching and the role of teachers, master coaches and mentors in guiding the process. TEACHING AND LEARNING… In our quest for expertise it is important that we differentiate between education and learning. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools.

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Heartzones

AUGUST 17, 2021

Darrel Salmi, Stillwater High School, MN teaching physical literacy using Heart Zones Methods. Funding is readily available for your school physical and health education program. This is federal not local funding which has already been allocated to your school. It is easy to request. It is easy to get it. 2] [link]. [3]

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Active Schools Us

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Walt Whitman’s well-known 1865 poem “O Captain! Keating tells his students, “Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Principals who are lukewarm about physical activity promotion may be more likely to support an active school environment if they understand and see the benefits of quality physical education in their schools.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 30, 2021

Published 12/03/2012 Updated 30/01/2021 In my role as a teaching and coaching 'academic' I get to see a lot of physical education and sport teaching/coaching, at both primary and secondary school level and in community coaching settings.

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