Learning Specialists At The York Region District School Board

Sports can be viewed as a learning environment that helps individuals learn life lessons, foster strong work habits and develop core values all the while learning a sport skill. Youth sports that truly benefit young athletes should be structured to emphasize participation more than just competition. Children enjoy a sport more when they are able to have fun (Humpries). Despite many excesses some sport programs still manage to promote important virtues like self- confidence, teamwork, personal responsibility, coping skills, and persistence. Through sports kids can learn to stay organized and learn how to prioritize (Ferguson). Sports enables development of physical skills and increasing proficiency makes kids feel good about themselves. It teaches kids that failure is something to overcome and and not to fear (Meyerhoff 8-9). Youth sports has many aspects that are truly benefiting for children, but these benefits are slowly being clouded by the negatives that are prominent in today's youth sports.

“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”(Billie Jean King) Most students from first grade to twelfth grade say that sports are a big part of their life and make them who they were meant to be in a positive way. Some people might argue that students in sports or extracurricular activities have lower grades than the other students, but it's the opposite way around. Sports improve your performance in school because they strengthen your concentration ability and leadership traits.

Playing sports or even having the knowledge of them can result into happier and more social students. In the video Notebook: Kids and Sports, Katie Couric states, “Playing sports cannot only give kids more confidence, it can also give them more rewarding friendships” (Notebook). This implies that our school can be more successful if we have greater variety of sports kids can join. Although being happier and more social isn't the only benefit of being in sports.

To many educational institutions, it is controversial whether or not sports are beneficial to scholastic success. Offering athletic programs is said to supply students with an enhanced learning experience, as well as adding amusement to a rather dull school year. Therefore, sports should be provided in all schools to reduce stress, improve academic performance, and develop teamwork skills and equal opportunity in school.

The primary object of sports is, of course, exercise, but sports have a far greater impact on the wellbeing of many besides physical health. Introducing new opportunities for youth, sports create unbreakable bonds, build athletes’ characters, unite communities, and promote teamwork. Undoubtedly, sports can positively impact many children of all ages. As children grow older and become more athletic, parents and athletes may consider specializing in one sport to maximize the athlete’s chance of earning a scholarship for college; furthermore, almost every youth athlete, myself included, dreams of becoming a professional athlete one day, so they will do anything to achieve that goal. On the contrary, specializing in one sport may have the opposite effect. Depriving themselves from diverse environments, specialized athletes are excluded from valuable lessons that are beneficial for sports and life. Specializing in one sport today is not merely playing one season of a sport, but specialization is intensely concentrating on one sport year-round. For this reason, athletes should play multiple sports because focusing on one sport all year does not produce the same benefits as playing multiple sports throughout the year. Most athletes, including myself, would probably agree that they love more than one sport, and if this is the case, then athletes should participate in every sport they love. After all, the purpose of sports is not to earn money or to become famous but to

In high school many kids often choose not to participate in extra curricular activities saying that there pointless or that only a certain type of person would do something like play football, or join the chess club. While this type of thinking may get some people through school and through life, can it really be looked at as being a healthy lifestyle? Today sports have proven to be a healthy outlet for students, in dealing with stress in the classroom at home and among their peers.

In America today, many students’ lives revolve around active sports and recreation. While a few districts might say that school sports are major distractions to students and are a budget killer; various studies show that recreational sports are good for students both mentally and physically. Therefore, schools should keep sports in their extracurricular lesson plans because students that are engaged in activities focus more in class, they are stress-relievers, and they build character and teamworking

Sports are embedded in many American schools in a way they are not anywhere else. One element of our educational system consistently surprises them, “Sports are a huge deal in American schools,” says Earl Smith of the New York Times. The positives have always outweighed the negatives in the case against high school sports. As Sato Kai state, “The benefits of sports as part of the education process are abundant and sometimes beyond quantifications,” According to many academic specialists, sports offer formative and life long lessons such as: discipline, responsibility, self confidence, and accountability. These skills can furthermore excel your later life and give you a greater chance of being employed in a high level job. Participation in high school sports helps your later development as an adult and teaches you life long skills that can't be taught elsewhere.

There have been many tests that have been conducted on the issue of sports. One of them conducted by the university of Alberta says that sports have a positive effect on children's social lives. Their test produced the result that children that play sports are happier and have better and more rewarding friendships than kids that do not have sports experience. It also said you don't necessarily have to be good or even play sports to get this important life benefit. But, those who do play learn the values of teamwork and cooperation. But minimal competence can still make you easier to talk to and relate to. This happiness can also lead to better focus on academics and can allow students to focus less on social problems and more on their grades.

There comes a time when raising a child that a parent will make the decision whether their child will participate in extracurricular activities. For many parents this decision is easy. Others will struggle with the pros and cons of their child’s participation in sports or any other outside activity. Then they must consider what the child wants to do, or if their child wants to play sports at all. After considering the possible positive and negative outcomes, my wife and I decided to place our children in competitive youth sports.

Sports, whether it’s team-based or individual, is a great activity for children that provide a variety of benefits other than physical activity. While some believe that children playing sports will increase injury rates. A debate discussing the topic on children playing sports which says that 66 percent of people who answered the debate said yes to children playing sports ("Should kids have to play”). Participation in sports can help build self-esteem and confidence, can motivate children to excel academically, and can help build social skills. Participation also can teach children the benefits of goal-setting.

School sports can encourage focus on what is important in life and inspire kids to go above and

In the competitive world, everyone become a commodity and every parent expecting their kids to be top in many fields. Now a days parents are not only concentrate on studies and they are giving undue importance to extracurricular activities, such as study music, art and sports. Many people argue that, it is waste of time and which makes kids more stressful. In my opinion, it’s very useful to learn these activities.

Above all, enjoyment of sports has to be by far the more essential characteristic of youth sports. Most parents only emphasize the importance of winning, which can create an unpleasant time if winning is the only objective rather than just simply having fun. Most kids enjoy and want to continue participating in sports as it's a fun way to be active and too see their friends. In the article “Youth Sports 101: Top 9 Tips for Moms and Dads” by Dr. Frank Smoll, he points out that parents should acknowledge their kids interest towards sports allowing them to have a good time during training sessions and games. As stated, “Studies also indicate that the main reason why youngsters drop out of sports is, ‘It isn’t fun anymore.’ Simply stated, children

Parents may think that participating in after school extracurricular activities will get in the way of their children’s grades, but studies have shown that happens to be the opposite. When there is less time to finish homework while students are in co-curricular activities, they must learn to manage their time so they can complete homework and keep good grades so they can still participate in sports (theeducator). Extracurricular activities help develop skills that are useful in the classroom, such as problem solving and teamwork. Learning to balance the day with school, sports, family, friends, schoolwork, leisure, and other activities is a very useful and important skill. Teens spend their free time in many ways and one very positive use of time is extracurricular activities, which can improve many other aspects of their lives.