The PE Playbook – August 2016 Edition

Welcome to the August 2016 Edition of the PE Playbook. The PE Playbook is a review of blog posts over the past month that are specific to Physical Education or Youth Sport. Its about bringing these blog posts into a format that is easy to find, use and share. Hopefully this will result in more PE Teachers (and others) reading them and engaging with them. If you have any feedback about the presentation or content of the PE Playbook then please let me know in the comments section of this post or via @ImSporticus. Previous Editions of the PE Playbook can be found here.

Darren Wensor is an athletics coach and coach educator from Sydney in Australia and blogs at Coaching Young Athletes. He tends to be my go to guy for ideas about teaching athletics as his posts on 10 of the Biggest Mistakes Young Athletes Make When Throwing a Javelin, 10 of the Biggest Mistakes Young Athletes Make in the Hurdles and 3 Common Athletics Myths You Should Know demonstrate his wealth of knowledge on the subject. Just a shame that the athletics season has ended now. However he also shares his thoughts on youth sport in general. How to Get Buy-in From Young Athletes By Giving Them a Voice is an excellent practical post about how as a youth coach you can seek out our athletes thoughts and ideas and how to incorporate them into our coaching. How many of us are actually willing to seek this information out and listen? He then proceeds to give good advice to adults involved in supporting their child in sport with How to Be an Awesome Sports Parent. Darren is continually looking to develop further as a coach and he shares thoughts on his read. This month his Recommended Reading For Coaches: was “Legacy” By James Kerr An excellent book and one that I encourage all teachers and coaches to read and Darren’s blog to follow.

• What does it mean for pedagogy to think like a game developer? by Shane Pill distills the research on how game development could shape pedagogy when teaching sports
• Do Learning Objectives Restrict Learning? is a provocative post by Kevin Peake that explores the importance of learning objectives within PE
• Dear Potential Recruit, Your Talent Only Gets You So Far from Changing the Game Project  looks at the character traits in sport needed to go support the development of talent
• Can we teach talent? by Christian Fallick looks at the work by Dan Coyle in the Talent Code and tries to apply it in a PE Context
• Essential Agreements in PE – Starting the Year with the Right Mindset is the first post by James Dowling  where he shares how he sets the right culture with his PE classes at the beginning of the year.
• Why I Don’t Like Fitness Testing in School PE is where Justen O’Connor  shares some recent research with regards to fitness testing within PE and asks us to carefully justify it’s place within our curriculum
• Virtual Reality in PE is an excellent thinking piece by Mike Prior  on the possible future VR might have in PE in the future, especially in academic PE
• The Future of Academy Coaching by the guys from the Player Development Project  offer some blue sky thinking on youth development from Elite Football clubs that may be pertinent for school sport.
• We need to coach players to play according to how a game emerges is another excellent piece from Mark O’Sullivan  which advocates that practice tasks should be deliberately designed to be flexible and representative of the performance environment.
• Clubs in the bag: Attaining an optimal grip on the opportunities in the game is a deep and thoughtful piece by Benny Franks on how coaches might be able to better enhance their players understanding of contexts they play in.

• Physical Literacy in Practice
• Assessment in Invasion Games: Part Six – Reflecting on the Journey
• Wow, Wow, Wow!!
• Distracted Learning and Why You Should Put Down Your Phone
• Is there such a thing as time away from (great) teaching? 
• The National PE Institute
• The #PhysedSummit2016
• The role of challenge in meaningful physical education – Part 1
• Welcome to “What I’ve Learned” #PhysEd Edition
• What PE Questions Were Recently Asked? (15-16)
• The Kinesthetic Movement
• My “to do” list this year
• How to measure development and 3 reasons why we shouldn’t
• Why I Blog
• Physed Summit 2016

• “Yes, I Can” !!
• Keeping PE Real…Real Fun, Real Engaging & Real Meaningful
• Are inclusive sports days possible?
• Drills v Games
• Great Posters To Emphasize Important Attitudes
• School For Beginners
• Back To School Activities
• New year, new challenges
• Last Pair Standing Game
• Golden Goal Game
• Outnumbered / Joker Game
• PE Games: Pass the Frog

• Surviving the Physical Education PGCE
• Why Do They Call These Lessons “Games”?
• Parkour in Physical Education
• Back-to-School Tips to Make a Difference this Year
• Large Class Sizes? 4 Strategies to Keep Students Moving & Learning
• PhysEdSummit 5.0 – Putting the Feed-back into Feedback
• PhysEdSummit 5.0 Student voice, participation and leadership in schools

• Virtual Reality in Physical Education?
• 7 Apps for PE Teachers; Part 2
• Using video analysis to show understanding
• Episode 64 – Drones & Robotics in PE
• How to Make a QR Code Treasure Hunt
• Turn Your School into a Fitness Adventure

• Olympic Debating Topics; Rio 2016
• Medal Quest Game
• Sports Science at the Rio Olympics
• GCSE PE and #TEAMGB

• Designer Games
• Game-as-teacher in TGfU and Video-games: Enabling constraints in learning through game-play By Tim Hopper
• Part 3 Evaluation
• The Secret of Effective Feedback

• Episode 63 – Lifelong Learners & Movers with Naomi Hartl
• Adam Metcalf | Starting with Why, PEinstitute16 and Tech Tips!
• Jo Bailey | Loving Life, Loving Physed and Finding Your Fun
• Ryan Armstrong | Physed, Pokemon Warm Ups and Classroom Contradictions!
• Models. One size fits all?
• Blabbermouth – TGfU 101
• Pete Carroll: Competing to be your Best
• Professor Damian Hughes | Physed Goals, Visualisation & Mindset

• FA’s Youth Coaching Game-Changer Means More Ball-Work & Less Shouting
• Secret Ingredients of Great Coaching
• Strength Focus – Using positive psychology in sports coaching
• 3 Questions That Turn Losing into Learning
• Coaching the ‘New Generation’ Athlete
• 10 Keys to Unlocking Your Coaching Potential
• Why is there a Disconnect between Scientific and Actual Coaching Practice?
• How to Improve Learning in Sports
• Recommended Reading For Coaches: “Legacy” By James Kerr
• 3 Common Athletics Myths You Should Know
• You Are Here
• Are You a Biased Coach?
• The Extra Mile
• It’s Always More Than An Exercise
• Embedding the ‘Cap Journey’ into your cricket club
• Deliberate Practice
• Clicking for success: gameplay as coach learning
• Top Tips for coaches and parents in youth sport
• Get Over Yourself
• An Open Letter to My Dad, who Makes Me Want to Quit Sports
• What talent developers can learn from farmers…
• They are still children

• Thoughts on Play
• A Manifesto Against ‘Parenting’
• It’s a Möbius strip: Stories are life, life is stories.
• The Story of Julius Yego
• A civil servant missing most of his brain challenges our most basic theories of consciousness
• Perfect, Freaky Olympic Bodies
• Athletes, you’re doing weight training all wrong
• Team talks are a waste of time – and I heard hundreds of them as a professional
• Big Goals Can Backfire. Olympians Show Us What to Focus on Instead.
• 4 Levels of Love. Runkel’s Adaptation of Bernard of Clairvaux’s Levels of Love