Table of Contents
Ten Practical Strategies Coaches Can Use to Promote Nutrition to Their Athletes
– Shelley Holden & Timothy Baghurst
This article highlights 10 practical strategies coaches can use to promote nutrition among their athletes, as well as suggestions for how coaches can incorporate nutritional information into team and parent meetings, training and competition education sessions, and travel itineraries.
Articles
Nutritional Considerations for Intermittent Exercise and Sport
– Theodore Kessinger
This article highlights nutritional considerations that aid in the recovery of an athlete after intermittent exercise and explains why the timing for consuming certain nutrients is vital to the athlete’s performance. This review will focus on carbohydrates, proteins, fluids, and the timing of recovery nutrition.
Improved Learning in Physical Education through Immediate Video Feedback
– Russell G. Nowels & Jennifer K. Hewit
This article describes a study that was conducted to assess whether immediate video feedback, in addition to standard instructor verbal feedback, improved students’ learning and performance on a basic gymnastics task.
Teaching Methods for Coaches — Coaching Methods for Teachers
– Clancy Seymour & Gregory Reeds
Using a coaching/teaching scenario, this article identifies useful strategies employed by successful coaches and physical educators that have universal applications and can be adopted by both.
Developing Under the Guidance of a Mentor: Five Strategies for Coaches
– Pete Van Mullem & Chris Croft
The purpose of this article is to provide coaching mentees with five strategies for taking an active role in developing as a coach under the guidance of a mentor: 1) identify potential mentors, 2) connect with potential mentors, 3) cultivate the relationship, 4) communicate to enhance the relationship, and 5) take ownership of the experience.
Departments
THEORY INTO PRACTICE
edTPA: The New Normal
– Anthony Parish
This article analyzes the challenges related to the required Education Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) in higher education, and offers tips for the successful completion of the assessment.
ADVOCACY IN ACTION
Using Sport Education to Promote Social Development in Physical Education
– Colin G. Pennington & Oleg A. Sinelnikov
This article examines how the sport education pedagogical model can be used to help students develop social responsibility and prosocial values in physical education.
EDUCATOR’S CORNER
Healthy Eating on a Budget: A Lesson in Frugality
– Elizabeth Whitney & Patrick Herbert
This article describes a learning activity designed to foster practical healthy eating skills while living on a budget.
COACH'S CORNER
Facilitating Positive Youth Development Through Competitive Youth Sport: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies
– Fernando Santos & Thomas J. Martinek
This article describes some of the opportunities and strategies coaches can take advantage of to increase positive youth development and sports development in their programs.