Physical Activity and Schools
This page displays the several shared resources co-published by several organizations, experts and practitioners concerned with physical activity. ISHN is pleased to facilitate this cooperation and to contribute the latest postings (tweets) The School Health Insider, a daily information service provided to the members of the International School Health Network. Follow Our Twitter-based News Feed or Embed it in Your Web Site ISHN monitors over 175 journals, over 70 news media outlets, over 50 social media sources and numerous web sites. As a support to those concerned with promoting physical activity through schools, these organizations and ISHN have created a twitter-based newsfeed (www.twitter.com/shinsider_pa) that can be followed through your own Twitter account. Or you can display these tweets on your own web site by downloading a widget that displays the postings in a window as seen on the right hand side of this page.If you would like to learn how to do this for your web site, or would like to partner with or join ISHN, contact [email protected] Collaboration in a Wiki-based Bibliography/Toolbox on Physical Activity & Schools We are also pleased to collaborate with international and other organizations in maintaining an extensive bibliography/toolbox of research reviews/articles, reports and educational/planning resources. Using a web site that is similar to Wikipedia, we have created a set of web pages that list these items within an evidence-based outline promoting a holistic understanding and comprehensive, coordinated, whole school approach to school physical activity. This listing will be maintained by several organizations and is open to contributions from anyone interested through the use or wiki-based editing tools. Further, this multi-page bibliography/toolbox can be embedded within your own web site, thereby offering another reason for your members or constituency to visit your web site. See this sub-page for how this embedded collection would look like on your web site. (You may need to use the navigation sliding bars to view the whole page) Contact [email protected] for more information and how to embed this list in your web site. Shared Blog: Physical Activity & Schools In addition to the postings, ISHN will be partnering with experts and physical activity organizations and experts to analyze trends and emerging issues. Return here for more information that will be posted soon. We hope to have experts, officials and practitioners from around the world contributing their observations about emerging events and trends. See below for some examples of blog articles written by experts, practitioners, officials and others. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Latest Shared Blog Posts on Physical Activity Five Point Plan to Improve Physical Activity in Schools (Posted November 14, 2011 from the ASCD Whole Child Blog) Increasing time for physical education and physical activity in school will not in itself guarantee a reversal in the current trend of declining physical activity and healthy weight. Changes in methodology and curriculum construction to cater to the physical activity needs and learning styles of all students, as well as teacher confidence in developing educationally appropriate curriculum across all years of schooling, are also required. That means programs must be future-focused to help children learn how to be responsive to changing and emerging recreation, sport, and activity possibilities, recognizing that the needs of individuals change as they journey through life. Read more... Physical Activity and Cognition (Posted November 14, 2011 from the ASCD Whole Child Blog) While many schools are reducing physical activity because of time constraints created by the No Child Left Behind Act, a large group of studies has linked physical activity with cognition. The researchers have come at the topic from a wide range of disciplines. Some are cognitive scientists or exercise physiologists. Other advocates are educational psychologists, neurobiologists, or physical educators. The applied research, which compares academic achievement between schools where kids have physical activity and those where they don’t, also supports the hypothesis.You’ve heard that exercise reduces discipline issues. Yes, it does. Harvard Professor John Ratey shows how it does this in his 2009 book Spark. You know that recess and physical education can promote cooperation, attentional skills, and social play. Now let’s add the neuroscience perspective. It reveals information that other disciplines cannot. For example, we know that exercise is highly correlated with neurogenesis, or the production of new brain cells. We know exercise upregulates a critical compound called brain-derived neurotrophic factor. We also know that neurogenesis is correlated with improved learning and memory. In addition, neurogenesis appears to be inversely correlated with depression. Read More... ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This collaborative web site contains pages on other issues, populations, contexts and elements. Go to the HOME PAGE |
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