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resources facilitating the acquisition of physical skills for individual or group games


  • Adventist Resource
    Athletics Guidelines for Adventist Schools Grade 1-Lifelong
    This document provides schools which believe that their students will benefit by a positive, Christ-centered sports program with guidelines for operation. Following an Introduction and Mission or Position Statement, the Guidelines for Seventh-day Adventist...

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    Coach Grade 7-Grade 12
    A novice at sports, the author, a primary teacher, reflects on her first season coaching rugby and touch football. In addition to rules and game play, she learned about living faith openly.

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    Coaching Distinctively Adventist Sports - Interschool Sports Plan Grade 5-Grade 12
    The presenters of this 2018 NAD convention breakout session covering the online "Coaching Distinctively Adventist Sports" course have provided a sample template of elements to include in the Interschool Sports Plan.

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    Competition - Still the Number One Concern Kindergarten-Lifelong
    What is the role of competition on the Adventist Christian campus? Christian college and university administrators have long grappled with this controversial topic. Ron du Preez examines this issue, and in the process, presents another worthy question: What...

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    Competition or Cooperation Kindergarten-Tertiary
    A look at sports and the church. In 1976 the General Conference published the pamphlet Guidelines for Activities with Elements of Competition. Ellen White wrote about the dangers of sports, but never used the words competition or rivalry....

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    Competitive sport, self-efficacy & academic achievement - a multiple regression analysis involving secondary school students in Seventh-day Adventist schools Kindergarten-Grade 12
    Physical activity and academic achievement are important and valued aspects of society. The present study investigated the relationship between involvement in competitive sport, self-efficacy beliefs and academic achievement in Adventist secondary school students....

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    Davide Sciarabba - Dialogue with an Adventist pastor and sports chaplain from Italy Grade 11-Tertiary
    An ordained minister, Sciarabba responds to questions about his ministry in the field of spots. He has even served as chaplain to athletes from around the world at the Olympics!

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    Differences in academic achievement of students involved in extracurricular activities in Seventh-day Adventist schools in the United States and Bermuda Grade 6-Grade 11
    This study examined differences in the academic performance of students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11 in Seventh-day Adventist schools in the United Sates and Bermuda based on their level of involvement in school music organizations-- band or choir -- and school...

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    Do Sports Have a Place in Adventist Schools? Grade 1-Lifelong
    The issue of sports in Adventist schools has received considerable attention recently. Because many of our academies and schools are engaged in interscholastic athletic competition, the General Conference has appointed a committee to investigate the role of...

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    Gymnastics Safety Manual Grade 9-Tertiary
    From the North American Division, a guide and a resource to coaches and administrators in our Seventh-day Adventist Schools for the safety and wellbeing of their gymnasts. Sample forms and supplier information are included.

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    Hot Boudin, Cold Cous-Cous Kindergarten-Lifelong
    Assessing the negative aspects of interschool sports. The beginnings of intercollegiate sport and the Adventist experience and Ellen White's counsels are discussed. A literature review suggests five basic areas of concern which yield ample evidence to support...

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    JAE Editorial: Reasons Why We Should Cease and Desist From Interschool Sports Grade 7-Grade 12
    George Akers discusses reasons why inter-school sports is unacceptable: it goes against the inspired counsels; it imitates the secular schools; instead of traditional work/witness/service mission of SDA education it reorganizes the schools around the play;...

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    Ljiljana (Lilo) Ljubisic - Dialogue with an Adventist world-class athlete Grade 10-Lifelong
    Ljiljana Ljubisic answers questions regarding her life and career - What has helped you most to be successful? What was the cause of your blindness? What made you decide to become an athlete?

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    Physical Education and Sport from a Christian Perspective Tertiary
    Hamerslough addresses several questions regarding physical education and sport. "Is there a place for physical education and sport in Seventh-day Adventist higher education? Is there a difference between Christian sport and sport as engaged in by public...

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    Physical Education, Sports and Christian Outreach Kindergarten-Grade 12
    Is there a place for fitness and sports in the Adventist concept of balanced education? Physical development should form one side of the equilateral triangle of true education. A person's play life is as important as any other part of his or her life. Five...

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    Sports in Adventist Academies and Schools Grade 1-Tertiary
    The subject of sports in Seventh-day Adventist schools frequently comes to the White Estate office from active Adventist teachers and students. We must consider the matter from the standpoint of the great principles involved. Ellen White lays a basic principle...

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    Team Sports in Adventist Education - Another Look Grade 1-Tertiary
    Miller discusses how "positive educational outcomes can be derived through participation in team sport activities." He notes that the "problems associated with the delivery of our team sports programs merely serves as an impetus to explore how...

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    The Power Plant Complex Kindergarten-Lifelong
    To evaluate sport objectively and assess its place in Adventist education, a number of factors must be considered. These include Ellen White's counsels; sport and society; the development of the discipline of physical education; the training of physical education...

  • Christian Resource
    Theoretical and Methodological Considerations Necessary to Improve the Evaluation of Learning in the Field of Physical Education and Sport Grade 1-Grade 12
    As argued throughout this paper, learning assessment is currently an area that requires further study and improvement by many teachers (professors, trainers, educators) at the theoretical, methodological and practical levels. The research was carried out by...