Matt Taylor

DP Psychology and MYP PHE Teacher @ ICS Addis Ababa. Moving the needle on movement.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Coach K on having a “Next Play Mentality”

Big time

(Via @PGCbasketball 🎥)

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

Fostering Competence and Autonomy in High School Physical Education Classes: An Exploration of Intricate Relationships https://t.co/QFa3IPG6XD #mdpieducation via @EducSci_MDPI

I've published my first article and am grateful for the support I've received along the way.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

What predicts performance?

In a study on elite field hockey players, athletes performed better when they had:
-Sense of Autonomy
-Sense of Mastery
-Feel Belonging
-See the game as a challenge instead of a threat

Satisfying our basic needs predicted performance.

[Julie Stern @JulieHStern]

Unpopular opinion: Standards-Based Grading, while better than other practices, is still part of a broken system. So is the distinction between 'formative' and 'summative' assessments. All external validators of learning erode intrinsic motivation. ⬇️

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

Attitude

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Late in the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Villanova blew a 10-point lead.

With 4.7 seconds left, UNC hit a 3-pointer to tie the game.

Villanova's head coach, Jay Wright, called a timeout, and as his players walked to the huddle, they were all saying the same word:

“Attitude.”

“It's the most important aspect of our program,” Coach Wright explains in his book titled, Attitude. “We wear 'Attitude' wristbands. And when we break a huddle, we say '1, 2, 3, Attitude.'”

The test of Attitude, Wright taught his players, is:

“Where is your mindset after something bad happens to you?”

Where is your mindset after you blow a 10-point lead? Where is your mindset after your opponent hits a 3 to tie the game with 4.7 seconds left?

“When I looked into the eyes of our players,” Wright writes, “I saw no anger or regret. No one bemoaned [the UNC player's] 'lucky shot,' or that any of our guys had failed to stop him from grabbing the pass that led to that shot, or anything else.”

Instead, “they were all saying, 'Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do. Attitude. This is what we do.'”

With this mindset, the players returned to the court.

Villanova's Kris Jenkins inbounded the ball to Ryan "Arch" Arcidiacono. Arch dribbled up the left side of the court, crossed half court, cut right towards the 3-point arc, where he underhanded a pass to Jenkins, who caught the ball with 1.3 seconds left, and, in perfect rhythm, jumped then released the ball with 0.6 seconds, and hit a buzzer-beater to win the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

Takeaway 1:

A primary indicator of physical fitness is recovery time. If you are doing all-out sprint intervals, for instance—people who are physically fit recover from one interval to the next faster than those who are not physically fit.

“So then, what is mental fitness?” the mental performance coach Greg Harden likes to ask. “Mental fitness is about recovery time,” Harden says.

It's about, as Coach Wright said, where your mindset is after something bad happens to you.

After something bad happens, people who are mentally fit recover faster than those who are not.

Takeaway 2:

Just after Kris Jenkins hit the buzzer-beater, Coach Wright famously barely reacted.

Before his guys went back on the court, he explained, “I processed all the potential scenarios.” Most likely, the game was going to go to overtime where UNC would ride their wave of momentum and win the game.

“No matter the outcome,” Wright continued, “because of the way our players responded after UNC tied the game ["Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do."]—I felt like they had the greatest lesson in life. I felt like that was an accomplishment that would follow them through their lives.”

Ryan Holiday once told me, “You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

Wright got to that place. He had done the work to instill in his players a mindset, he said, “that they would carry with them for the remainder of their days on earth.”

“In that sense, I knew we had already won.” Everything else was extra.

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“The fact is, none of us control what happens to us in life—but we do control our responses to those circumstances...no matter how tough it gets or how much of a challenge you face in the final 4.7 seconds of a game.” — Jay Wright

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[ICS Addis Ababa @ICSAddis]

HS students take over as teachers for in #Elementary PE!

"We aim to empower our HS students with the confidence and competence required to create enriching experiences...and foster a sense of pride and ownership in their community - in their community school." @MattT_aylor

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

Tossing, retrieving, and building - roles and responsibilities lesson within our team building unit. @ICSAddis #physicaleducation #teambuilding

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

The Morning Milers getting after it! This dedicated group is made up of Middle and High School students, including a recent grad. Building a more resilient #community one challenge at a time @ICSAddis

[British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) @BJSM_BMJ]

#NEW BJSM Blog: exercise and depression 🧠🏃‍♀️

Exercise proves to be an evidence based treatment option for depression ⚡️

We break down the latest systematic review and meta-analysis into digestible chunks 📑

READ HERE ➡️ https://t.co/RAb09J4zLn

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

Physical competencies can be divided into different categories. When developing awareness to support student autonomy, we chose to use the @FunctionalMvmt Screen to evaluate movement quality - quality before quantity. @ICSAddis #PhysEd #PHE

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

Grateful for the opportunity to discuss my ongoing research and the potential implications of findings. This will be my first experience presenting at the @PHECanada Research Forum… looking forward to the opportunity! @ICSAddis @stfxuniversity @RoyalRoads

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

ISSEA Golf, hosted by @ISofUganda and @lvictoriaserena. Wonderful experience for the junior golfers of @ICSAddis.

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

Building on nutrition, students explored simple carbohydrates through the Benedict’s test. Thanks to our science department for supporting the Gr9/10 PHE students and organizing this lab. #PhysEd #CrossCurricular #Nutrition @ICSAddis

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

S&ES students investigated the logic of categorization in sport - why do we categorize in sport? This lesson is part of our Sports Sociology unit. Students select the topics we investigate based on predetermined concepts. @ICSAddis @JulieHStern @PHECanada

[ICS Addis Ababa @ICSAddis]

“This season I learned to never give up and that nothing is ever going to be handed to you easily. You have to persevere and stay positive when some calls aren't going your way,” Grade 9 student-athlete Owen S. said. Congrats, ICS Eagles! 🦅🇪🇹🏀
https://t.co/qxz0SI5bJV

[Land of Origins @Landoforigins]

The 2023 Half Marathon took place in 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚!

The beautiful city of Hawassa staged the 2023 Half-Marathon in a very charming fashion! Lucky participants won the raffle that will grant them a free ticket to tour one tourist destination in Ethiopia.

@greatethrun

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

Our S&ES class was visited by Dr. Elias, exercise physiologist. Students explored different sport performance metrics, such as speed gates and Tendo units. @ICSAddis #LTAD

[The PE Project @the_PE_project]

How can we motivate students in #PhysEd? Self-determination theory states 4 psychological needs of all humans. https://t.co/dZjFMwShLY…… #motivation #education #physicaleducation #educhat #flow/#ZPD #MotivationMonday

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

Exercise physiology concept sort to support students in developing personalized training plans #phe @ICSAddis @JulieHStern

[Matt Taylor @MattT_aylor]

HS S&ES students are identifying activity/sport-specific motor skills and movement patterns. Their next step is to develop a practice plan for an upper elementary school student based on the stages of physical development. #ltad @ICSAddis @JulieHStern