Bloggers of the Year
As with keeping in tradition, there is no Blogger of the Month in December. Instead, we have a reminder of previous Bloggers of the Month throughout the whole of 2018. If you are interested in PE or Youth Sport then you should definitely consider following them.
- PE Playbook – January 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Stuart McMillan at McMilliamSpeed
- PE Playbook – February 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Shane Pill at Learning Through Sport
- PE Playbook – March 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Aaron Beigh at #JustthinkinPE
- PE Playbook – April 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Nick Hill at Nick Hill Coaching
- PE Playbook – May 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – The EverLearner at The Teacher in Classroom 21
- PE Playbook – June 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Gordon MacLelland at Working with parents in sport
- PE Playbook – July 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Martin Bingisser at Hmmr Media
- PE Playbook – August 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Balbinder Singh at Reinventing the Game
- PE Playbook – September 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Dr Sergio Lara at iCoachKids and youtube channel
- PE Playbook – October 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Andy Vasily at PYP PE with Andy
- PE Playbook – November 2018 Edition – Blogger of the Month – Risto Marttinen at Playing with Research in Health and Physical
Previous editions of the PE Playbook and Bloggers of the month can be found here.
Top 10 Articles of the Month
- A Constraints Led Approach is not ‘just’ Another Game-Centred Approach by Mark O’Sullivan explains why CLA is not solely a games based approach but is able to provide a principled approach to skill learning across all sports and in all pedagogical settings.
- Informed Shorts: Making New and Better Mistakes by Paul Gamble of Informed in Sport expertly explores when to stick and overcome mistakes or try something new to solve the problems we are facing as athletes and coaches.
- Putting Theory Into Practice: Using Games-Based Activities to Achieve Psycho-Social Outcomes by Blake Richardson of ConnectedCoaches reviews a really interesting iCoachKids practical workshop on using psychosocial coaching methods to aid children’s learning and development
- Why girls and boys should play sports together is a TED Talk by John Brenkus who puts forward his rationale for why all children should play together on the same teams.
- Skill Acquisition by Harjiv Singh is a very accessible summary of the key ideas in skill acquisition and motor learning and should be essential reading by all PE Teachers and coaches involved in youth sport.
- The Ghost of Physical Education Past is a blog post by Ash Casey which explores a paper written more than 25 years ago but which predicted the death of physical education as a curriculum subject.
- A Return to Play: Movement Training for Youth Athletes by Jeremy Frisch is an article that asks us to consider becoming less structured and organised with our sessions and promoting educational gymnastics and play to allow children the chance to explore and figure out what might work best for them.
- PE is not about “fun”: It is about learning by Michael Kaissis brings an Australian perspective to physical education, especially the educative purposes of PE and how that his made him reflect on his own practices and approach to teaching.
- Scott Sellars: Instilling ‘serious fun’ at Wolves Academy from Simon Austin of Training Ground Guru interviews Scott Sellars whose coaching philosophy is one of serious fun – learning and enjoyable at the same time.
- A Conversation about Physical Literacy is a dialogue between practitioners on Kelvin Giles blog about practical ways to go about developing physical literacy in children.
General PE
- What do we really know?
- Is fun a cognitive distortion for PE and sport coaching?
- R2P: Engaging Girls in #physed
- Free weights or machines? The science and the facts
- 2018: Stars & Stairs
- Children are getting weaker
- Dear Future Phys. Ed Teachers: 6 Tips to Help New Physical Educators
- The achievement-wellbeing trade-off in education
- How can physical activity help a child do better in school?
- New Exercise Guidelines are Out—Here is the Mix of Aerobics and Weight Training Experts Recommend
- Children around the world not getting enough exercise, report says
- If it’s said enough times does it make it true?
- Integrating into a research-informed community
- Government and top sports bodies to help children play more sport
- Prioritising play
- Physical education is key to longer, happier lives. Our kids and schools need more of it.
- It is not all in your head. Sometimes, it’s in your legs
- What is physical education? A Siedentopian answer.
Primary PE
- PLAY FOR FITNESS – December Fitness Challenge
- Creating Meaningful Experiences on the Bike
- Only one in 20 boys and just one in 83 girls get recommended amount of daily exercise
- Making lessons fun does not help children to learn, new report finds
- Children said these four things would make them happier and we used to take them for granted
- Primary school PE could be ‘transformed for a generation’ by new funding
- How playground design delivers play “nutrition”
- How to Develop Better Athletic Balance
- Let’s Roll for Fitness – January Fitness Challenge
- A Tired PE Teacher’s Guide to Re-energizing During the Holidays
Secondary PE
- Challenges ahead – Professional Learning- Goal Setting
- Why relationships—not money—are the key to improving schools
- Future Directions in PE Assessment
- Limiting social media use reduced loneliness and depression in new experiment
- ‘Confidence crisis’ stops young girls doing sport
- People with more knowledge about benefits of physical activity may also exercise more
- On the Definition of Learning….
- How to Ask Better Questions
- The dying art of storytelling in the classroom
- Education for enlightenment
- Fitness Testing and Physical Education
- Reflecting and Looking Ahead
Tech in PE
Research in PE
- The Effect of Physical Education Climates on Elementary Students’ Physical Activity Behaviors
- We have to live in the future
- Investigating the elements that encourage or inhibit the participation of children and youth in Australian Football
- Practicing Unstructured Play in Team Ball Sports: A Rugby Union Example
- New study says not exercising is pretty much the worst thing you can possibly do
- Cognitive load theory in practice
- Transformative assessment in physical education
- How are different levels of knowledge about physical activity associated with physical activity behaviour in Australian adults?
- Primary Teachers’ Recommendations for the Development of a Teacher-Oriented Movement Assessment Tool for 4–7 Years Children
- Embodying Meaning: Qualities, Feelings, Selective Attention, and Habits
- Global Matrix 3.0 Physical Activity Report Card Grades for Children and Youth: Results and Analysis From 49 Countries
- Jordan Radwell and John Stoszkowski (2018) The Little Prince and his rose: a study into children’s perceptions of sport.
PE Podcasts and Videos
- Tackling a global inactivity pandemic with FUN!! – A conversation with Dr Amanda Visek
- “We don’t need more sports science, we need more sports humanity” – a conversation with Andrew Gillott
- Professor John Cairney: Putting the physical back into literacy: new thoughts on an old idea
- Pop an ollie and innovate
- 4 Pillars of Coaching
- Games based approaches
- Twitter use in PE
- How Should we Space Training to Optimize Skill Acquisition?
- Magic Academy conversation with Keith Lyons
- Brain Science and Education
School and Youth Sport
- Let them play!
- Game awareness – how small is small enough in cricket SSGs? and How small is small enough? A (partial) answer
- Beware the barrenness of a busy life
- Sport Systems – fragments of thought #14
- What does it mean to be a Community Sport Coach?
- 3 Athletics Myths That May Surprise You
- Coaching children — giving them what they want, and some of what they need
- Why Sports Parents Sometimes Behave So Badly
- How to Increase Player Learning by Creating Game-Like Situations
- How to make your kid hate sports without really trying
- Youth Soccer Should Be Fun For All Players
- 10 Tips From 2018 That Will Make You a Better Coach
- False Prophets Bearing Gifts
Other Articles of Interest
- The Best Sports Books of 2018
- It’s Okay to Be Good and Not Great
- Problems with deliberate practice
- Should You Exercise in the Morning, Afternoon or Evening?
- All Blacks: Steve Hansen’s secret – what the All Blacks don’t do on game day
- Seeking the Edge of Chaos
- How do we incentivise people to be healthier?
- To Avoid Getting Duped By Fake News, Think Like A Fact Checker
- 8 Unrealistic Expectations That Will Ruin You
- Daniel Kahneman: Your Intuition Is Wrong, Unless These 3 Conditions Are Met
- The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology
- 8 Things Top Practicers Do Differently
- The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention
- A Discussion About Challenging and Supporting Young Players
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Happy 2019 to you imSporticus. I wanted to write and thank you so much for all the time that you take to read, write and share the work that so many do in moving our professional learning forwards. Your critical and constructive approach to this work is very important for many of us trying to find a range of sources that are free, easy to read and follow and allow for people to connect and learn more from their craft and the craft and experience of others.
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