
James Dowling
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James Dowling
@physedjames
🇦🇺Phys Ed. dad that is all about movement and affect. International School experience in 🇬🇧🇦🇹🇦🇪🇻🇳🇨🇭🇮🇳 & now🇱🇺.


Have we been side-tracked by our utility? How can we create some 'delicious uncertainty' in our PE classes? Lots of takeaways in this bonus episode with Dr. Scott Kretchmar. #meaningfulpe #PhysEd @doug_gleddie @meaningfulPE buzzsprout.com/2358344/episod…
















Years ago in galaxy far far away, children, many of them aspiring young athletes would spend their summer days and after school pre-dusk hours playing outside in backyards, woods and playgrounds all across America. These marathon sessions of movement allowed children to develop many basic physical skills. Games like tag and kick the can involved sprinting and numerous changes of speed and direction. Climbing trees or wrestling with friends developed total body strength and body awareness. Riding bikes or running on trails through the woods provided very sufficient cardiovascular benefits. As the children experienced more of these activities this foundation of physical skills grew and expanded. When the time was right as these children grew older they would use this physical foundation as a platform to learn and master more complex movements like the skills found in sports like baseball, football, soccer and basketball etc. Children played many sports throughout the school year and summer time was for vacation and camps. The words A.C.L. reconstruction or Tommy John surgery were literally non existent because young athletes were hardly ever exposed to one activity long enough to cause overuse problems... Obviously things have changed. We can't go back to the 1980s but we can find inspiration from those experiences to pass on to the next generation. That's inspiration for this program! #LTAD
















