Welcome to the May 2017 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.
Nate Babcock is a Elementary Physical Education in California and has been writing recently on Medium and has been in fine form. His style can be described as a ‘steam of consciousness’ and Movement Educates exemplifies this with his thoughts about the educative benefits of movement. A Little About My Love/Hate Relationship with Physical Literacy explores Nate’s thoughts on what he considers are both the strengths and the weaknesses for teachers embracing physical literacy and the legitimate outcomes for PE. In Healthy? For Whom? we are challenged to reconsider how we might define health, through a moral and ethical lens and Nate keeps on challenging preconceptions Where Does Physical Education BEGIN?. Nate is also a big advocate of a profession of critical thinkers and his piece on human target games within the curriculum There is a Place for Human Target Games in PE, Censorship is not the Answer demonstrates this. If you enjoyed his thinking and writing he also blogs at EmanciPLAYtion
- Creating Conditions For Young Learners to Thrive in Physical Education
- Why do an all in school cross country run?
- Singalongs, angry mums, and zero banter: the fascinating secrets to Fiji’s 7s success
- Beyond Drills vs Games
- Swim-Bike-Run
- Why a focus on the model in models based PE teaching might not be enough
- How People Learn: An Evidence-Based Approach
- Teaching soccer (football) using a game sense approach
- Coaching – Rule 1: Put the interests of the players above yours
- TES talks to… Richard Weiler
- Physical Activity: More is more
- Be Prepared, Be Mindful, Be Inspired
- Open Letter to PE Teachers – What you put in to a community, you get back!
- How Does Data Inform Your Instruction?
- Professional Development – Part 8 – Feedback and Reflection
- Teaching & coaching using the TPSR model
- The Reality of Feedback
- The concept of physical literacy
- #summerreads
- PE could be the first step towards a healthy nation
- Utilizing Student Voice To Improve Teacher Practice
- Best parts of my week
- P.E. Games – Inspired by Students
- Calling On All Superheroes!
- Net Games Part 1
- We like to Move: Creative Dance Unit
- Keeping Students Motivated at the End of the School Year
- International Activities
- Being Creative Energizes Me
- Re-engaging disengaged pupils in physical education: success stories from the field by Shirley Gray
- Breakout EDU: 5 Components of Fitness Superhero Training
- Thinking on your feet whatever the weather… kwik cricket saves the lesson.
- Is assessment in ks4 Core PE relevant anymore?
- We weren’t comfortable in our own skin – let alone baring it
- Character Building Days at School
- Affective Learning: What is it & how can it be assessed?
- Coach Spelic
- Leaving an impact
- Success Story – Decide Now & Team Shake
- Assessing students’ Fundamental Movement Skills with Kahoots
- TV is not the cause of obesity
- Pressure & Youth Sports Study
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity levels in secondary school physical education lessons
- Changing What You See by Changing What You Know: The Role of Attention
- When is error-reduced practice most effective? Implications for PE teachers
- Self regulation discriminates the best from the rest
- Learning complex movements improves cognitive abilities?
- Number of years of participation in some, but not all, types of physical activity during adolescence predicts level of physical activity in adulthood: Results from a 13-year study
- Jon Oliver and Rhodri Lloyd: The importance of motor skill, resistance training and measuring growth rate
- Cooperative Learning with Vicky Goodyear
- Relationship Based Approach to Coaching
- Dr Jean Côté – Play vs Practice, Sampling vs Specialisation and Transformational Leadership
- Interview with Damian Farrow, Victoria University/AIS, Practice Design
- The Process
- Person First, Player Second
- Ditch the cones – start using ‘koans’
- A Fun Sprints Lesson Plan for Kids
- Practice Repetition without Repetition (Part 2)
- Motivational balance
- The Dilemma of Performance and Participation
- Should schools ditch team sports?
- Can We Shift the Paradigm in Youth Sports?
- Seeking the Edge of Chaos
- How can I simplify the principles of play for my players?
- Conversations into stories
- The Benefits of Free Play May Not Be What You Think
- An athlete’s age may be less important to performance than persistent practice
- A LIST FOR LIFE
- On the happy life
- Poor fitness is a bigger threat to child health than obesity
- (It’s Great to) Suck at Something
- How to grow old like an athlete
- Review Of “Strength Training And Coordination: An Integrative Approach” By Frans Bosch
- Is “Allostasis” The Brain’s Essential Function?
- At Italy’s Coaching Academy, a Pipeline of Champions
- Here’s How Much Children’s Physical Inactivity Is Costing You
- What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence
- Play is essential, but it takes work for children to succeed in the real world
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