Welcome to the September 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.
Mark O’Sullivan is someone I connected with very quickly through Twitter. He is a Coach Educator, with a focus on preparing coaches for youth football in Sweden. Although we have yet to meet, I feel we are both on similar journeys but in very different contexts. He blogs at Footblogball and his writing has had a considerable impact on my teaching of games and coaching of youth sports. Back in December of last year he interviewed Johan Fallby, who is Sport Psychologist at premier Danish soccer club F.C. Copenhagen. From that interview came a mantra of youth sport that I think those involved should embody: “as many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible”. Far better than the ‘throw a dozen eggs at the wall, see which doesn’t crack and then claim success’ approach we often see. This month he has written two excellent blog posts. In The Coach Educator, the Coach and Coach Education Mark brings together several pieces of research on coach education to propose a model of coach education that focuses on the learning environment. A Holistic View: Flexible framework, sound developmental principles and emerging information is a excellent synthesis of the current thinking around non-linear pedagogy, constraints led approach and representative learning design for sport. I look forward to reading his future posts on implementing both these frameworks into youth sport.
- Home – Away – Home – Away – etc. (Part 1) and Home-Away-Home Part 2 – Team Sports by Kelvin Giles is the sharing of knowledge, experience and wisdom that Kelvin has gained over his career. There is much here for Teacher of PE, to either take an implement or to challenge current practice.
- Some Coaching Advice From An Old Coach by Vern Gambetta imparts some tidbits of advice a useful direction for novice youth sports coaches and a handy reminder for those of us who are more experienced.
- A Movement Centered Approach to PE – Why? by James Dowling is his second blog post and puts forward a strong case for PE to focus on the development of essential movement skills.
- Does Organization Really Matter? by Mark Banasiak offers his thoughts on how to organise both yourself and your equipment within PE
- Sport for Self-Knowledge and I and Thou, Sweet Tension, Coliberation: How Dialogue in Play, Sport, and Human Movement can Change the World by Nate Babcock are two deeply philosophical pieces on the importance of sport that challenges that status quo.
- The Olympic Pursuit of Inspiration by Informed in Sport looks not how the Olympics can inspire people to get involved in sport, but how they can inspire new ideas, ways of thinking and ultimately innovation in sport.
- Professional Learning + Data = analysis student learning – Part 1 by Mel Hamada is her initial exploration of how Daniel Kahneman’s work on judgement and decision making could possibly be applied to Physical Education.
- What if I’m doing it all wrong? is a strong critical reflection by Stuart Armstrong that questions whether his approach to coaching, through designing representing games and play, best supports children’s development and learning in sport.
- But what about competition? The role of challenge in meaningful physical education – Part II
- Revitalizing Pedagogy and Content for Todays Generation
- Teacher or Leader?
- How resilient ARE you and your faculty?
- Back to School: Creating that Positive Learning Environment
- Embarking on a new journey
- Cavete ergo discipulus – let the Professional learner beware
- Teaching the growth mindset
- It’s The Most Important Subject in School, And Our Kids Aren’t Getting Enough of It
- My Experience of Implementing Kretchmar’s (2006) Criterion of Challenge
- Five to Thrive: Tips for Physical Education Teachers
- National Standards: A Recipe, not Dessert
- Get Moving: 24-Hour Movement Guidelines
- 10 Hula Hoop Activities You May NOT Know About
- The Best Parts of My Week – 9-5-16–9-9-16 and The Best Parts of My Week – 9/19/16–9/23/16 from North Park PE
- Uplink – Mystery Bag Challenge
- Multiskills; Favourite Games for Possession
- Balance and Focus
- Tips for the Pacer Test
- Keeping Tiny Tots On Track
- Fall Family Fitness Challenge
- Advantages of Alternative Sports (and 4 to try!)
- More than a game in #physed: Addressing the affective domain
- Fitness Testing in Schools; Guide, recording and interventions
- Why Technique does not need to be taught
- Why Technique does not need to be taught: Part Two
- Teaching the most important subject to students: A secondary schools approach to student wellbeing in 2016-17
- The Obesity Strategy – Summary and ideas for Schools
- What is a “Block” in the Throws and How Do I Teach It?
- 10 Biggest Mistakes Young Athletes Make When They Scissors High Jump
- 10 Must Haves of the GAME PLAY LEARN Approach
- The world is not always our target audience
- Light Gate Speed Testing from your Mobile
- My Podcast Addiction
Video Source from My PE Exam on Mastery Learning
- Physical Literacy – ‘Kiwi Style’
- NZ Sport Physical Literacy
- World Rugby’s erroneous sport injury statistics
- Episode 65 – How I Got Started Using Tech in PE with Kari Bullis
- Episode 66 – Saving Time Using Technology with Pat Coleman
- A Physed Masterclass With…Ryan Ellis
- Naomi Hartl | Reactive to Proactive Teaching and Beyond
- Dance Advice for Your Physed Classroom with Caroline ‘The Dance Lady’
- Episode 67 – Helping Students Succeed with Christina Polatajko
- 15 Simple Tips You Need to Know for a Standing Sprint Start
- Questions for coaches inspired by England v Slovakia
- 10 Biggest Mistakes Young Athletes Make in the Shot Put
- Coaching Lessons from In and Out Burger
- 3 More Athletics Myths You Should Know
- Principles of Player Development
- Das Reboot
- 7 Keys to Understanding Motivtion in Your Young Athlete
- Yes, I Do Play My Favourites
- Who knows best: Kids or Adults
- An Open Letter to Young Athletes
- A Boxing Lesson
- Game Design: Why We Use Multi-Games
- Lacrosse 101
- Let’s Stop the Early Sport Specialization Madness!
- Pediatricians Say Children Shouldn’t Specialize In A Single Sport Until Age 15-16, If At All
- How to Best Manage Groups of Young Athletes
- The Issue With Bio-Banding Young Players
- Go to Strategies of Top Educators
- On Influencing Those you Manage: Five Keys for Connection & Compliance
- Supporting Learner Experience: Re-imagining Coach Education and Development
- Learning Dynamics
- Uncontrolled Manifold Analysis
- Connecting understanding, learning and performance pre-view
- “Drowning in Freedom?”
- Man Utd using circus skills and parkour runners to train players how to run, fall and avoid injury
- “Luke Beveridge…Neo-Generalist?”
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