THE GOLDEN CHANCES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
OUR NEW STAR? 2
HOW DO WE SELECT OUR NEXT ‘STARS’? 31 BOYS SELECTED OVER 2 103 BOYS YEARS SELECTED 3400 8-10 YEAR OLDS 3
SELECTED • RELATIVE OLDEST • EARLY MATURE • EARLY SPECIALIZERS • BETTER SPORT SPECIFIC SKILS • BETTER MOVERS 4
WHAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS AT A YOUNG AGE TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL IN SPORTS? 5
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION AN ACTIVE & HEALTHY LIFESTYLE BUT……AT A YOUNG AGE? 7
GROSS MOTOR SKILLS Foundation for motor development Prerequisite for learning sport- specific skills in later childhood 8
‘Children have to be provided with challenging learning environments to be stimulated to learn and improve their gross motor skill performance ’ Exercises Instruction (Stodden, et al., 2008 ) Individual opportunities Capacity Less to learn developed and motor Goal-directed improve? skills learning 9
Korper Koördiation Test für Kinder (Kiphardt & Schilling, 1974) 4 weeks, 8 min. a week 7 exercices Individual practice 10
Results • Significant improvements after 4 weeks • Sustainable effects • Repeated practice Platvoet et al. (2016) Platvoet et.al. submitted 11
Some children improve more than others. Our next ‘stars’? What characterizes these children? 12
PE teachers’ perceptions of 6 to 8 year -olds with the potential to become an elite athlete in the future Scale for Identification of Sport Potential 4,31 4,32 5 3,89 3,76 3,4 4 2,95 3 2 1 0 Platvoet et.al. 2015 13
SPORT TYPES? Main results Ranking Work attitude capacity Sport learning capacity Motor capacity Interpersonal capacity Intellectual capacity 14
SISP To be better able to meet children’s developmental demands! 15
PE TEACHERS: YES YOU CAN, JUST DO IT! CURRENT SYSTEM Sport-specific Selection at young age PE: CHILDREN CAN LEARN Goal-directed learning PE: INITIAL ASSESSMENT - SISP Work attitude & Sport learning capacity C hildren’s developmental demands 16
THANK YOU! Sebastiaan Platvoet sebastiaan.platvoet@han.nl 17
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