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Jerraco L. Johnson; Danielle D. Wadsworth; Mary E. Rudisill – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2025
Background: Mastery motivational climate (MMC) interventions are an evidence-based approach utilized to deliver motor skill interventions (MSI) for young children. There are 6 environmental characteristics and instructional cues an instructor must appropriately manipulate to implement a MMC. These are known as the TARGET and stand for Task,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development, Young Children
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Hastie, Peter A.; Rudisill, Mary E.; Boyd, Korey; Johnson, Jerraco L. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2019
Purpose: This study followed a strengths-based approach to identify the pathway children follow as they develop from novice to skillful learners during a mastery-motivational physical education setting. Method: Eleven 4-year-old children (nine boys) participated in a motor activity program delivered twice weekly across 26 weeks. The teacher…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Mastery Learning, Physical Education, Novices
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Schultheis, Susan F.; Boswell, Boni B.; Decker, Jim – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2000
This article describes Success in Physical Activity, a program for students with autism. The program, based on adaptations of the Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communications-Handicapped Children (TEACCH) recreational structure program, focuses on two areas: physical fitness and motor ability. (Contains seven references.)…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Motor Development, Physical Activities
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Plisk, Steven – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2005
This article focuses on standards specific to Domain 3: Physical Preparation and Conditioning of the National Standards for Sport Coaches (NASPE, 2004b). It discusses program design concepts that coaches can apply to prepare athletes for the demands of their sport, and is based on both research and best professional practice. Sport preparation has…
Descriptors: Program Design, Physical Education, Training, Athletes
Gerard, Glen K.; And Others – 1978
Physical education, intramurals, and interscholastics are often key areas of study for staffs working to provide for the physical needs of the middle school child. This paper gives direction to the development of programs in physical education in this area. A brief analysis of the problems involved in physical education at the middle school level…
Descriptors: Athletics, Extramural Athletics, Individual Development, Individual Differences
Shanks, Robb L. – 1974
A set of minimum physical education skill objectives, basic motor performances all elementary and secondary school children should be capable of demonstrating are presented in the form of specific drill instructions. Divided into grade levels for purposes of assessment, the exercises are intended to be ungraded activities. The rationale for this…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Exercise (Physiology), Motor Development
1980
The purpose of this guide was to unify physical education programs in several school districts through the development of common objectives. Curricular content was developed according to levels of learning in attitudes, concepts, and skills, recognizing skills in a sequential developmental and spiral arrangement. Nine areas of motor skill…
Descriptors: Athletics, Elementary Secondary Education, Exercise, Games