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Marcia Lee Unnever – Brookes Publishing Company, 2024
Get every young child ready to learn--and support their social-emotional development--with these 70 fun, quick, and effective activities! Teachers of early childhood through Grade 3 will love this unique combination of SEL, mindfulness, and brain-friendly physical activity that promotes growth, development, and behavior management. Designed to…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Metacognition, Motion, Brain
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Miftakhov, Almaz Faridovich; Sergin, Afanasiy Afanasievich; Starostin, Viktor Georgievich; Torgovkin, Vladimir Gavrilyevich; Savinkova, Olga Nikolaevna – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The paper is devoted to the issues of improving the methods of physical training. Currently, the method of teaching and training schoolchildren is developed mainly with a focus on a child's age, which does not always correspond to his or her biological maturity. These reasons together with the growing phenomenon of child acceleration reinforce the…
Descriptors: Physical Development, Performance Factors, Muscular Strength, Human Body
Zakharova, Victoria S.; Maydankina, Nataliya Y.; Zakharova, Larisa M. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
The article considers the relationship of physical and cognitive development of children as well as the processes of memory and attention. They determine the readiness of a child for school education. The analysis of existing theories made it possible to single out the conditions for their development. There was conducted a study to check the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Physical Development, Psychomotor Skills, Exercise
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Akyüz, Öznur – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The fact that balances can also be a factor in performance distinction between athletes in athletic skills, and is considered to provide positive acceleration for physical development in which motor skills are exhibited. Human's skill to ensure balance can be defined as a determinant factor in development of other motor skills. From this point of…
Descriptors: Athletes, Exercise, Athletics, Psychomotor Skills
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Pinto, Luís Manuel – Childhood Education, 2020
A moon exploration is one example of what Jasmine, and other children in the experimental township of Auroville in India, experience on a regular basis--the Auroville equivalent of a physical education class. It is one of the practices in Awareness Through the Body (ATB), which is described by its creators as "a comprehensive curriculum of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Human Body, Learning Activities
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Ho, Walter King Yan; Ahmed, Md. Dilsad; Keh, Nyit Chin; Khoo, Selina; Tan, Cheehian; Dehkordi, Mitra Rouhi; Gallardo, Mila; Lee, Kicheon; Yamaguchi, Yasuo; Wang, Jian; Liu, Min; Huang, Fan – Cogent Education, 2017
Numerous studies have been published heralding the benefits of physical education in school education. Sport and physical activities form the major content in learning and the arrangement serves as the major source of development in students. This paper identifies "quality" as an internationally concerned issue and within the concept,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Quality, Questionnaires, Teacher Surveys
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Kim, Kyoung Jin; Wee, Su-Jeong; Gilbert, Beverly Boals; Choi, Jeonghee – Childhood Education, 2016
Children's participation in yoga activities is receiving increasingly widespread attention as an exercise system that promotes not only physical health benefits but also psychological well-being. The authors of this article introduce how yoga practices can be implemented in an early childhood classroom to enhance children's mind and body harmony,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Physical Development, Psychological Needs, Well Being