The importance of well-developed movement skills is well known. Whereas it used to be taken for granted that children would become “good movers” while playing, today it is rather the opposite. A decline in children's movement skills has been taking place for years. In 2016, the Education Inspectorate showed that children in grade 8 scored worse on several skills than when they were surveyed in 2006. And in 2006, children already scored worse than in the 1996 poll. Commonly cited causes include children playing outside less and less often, an increase in the time they spend behind screens, dual-earning parents who have (too) little time for children and the quality of the cadre at sports clubs.
Movement skills do not develop by themselves. Children need to be challenged and encouraged to move, and especially to learn to move. With society changing, there is an increasing importance of doing this in education. Physical education classes are the appropriate place for this, at least if they are taught by a specialized subject teacher. However, this subject teacher often has limited time (2x 45 minutes, maximum 40 weeks per year) to teach the children movement. In order to optimally develop the children's movement skills, support from the specialized teacher is important.
In this platform the teacher finds support based on (scientifically substantiated) measuring instruments and teaching methods that the Academy of Sport and Exercise of the HAN together with various partners from education and science have developed in recent years.
