THE LEADING AUTHORITY ON EARLY LEARNING SPORTS DEVELOPMENT
Founded by an educational doctor who wrote the first study on early learning in sports research.
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The Science Behind Teaching Children in the Ways They Learn Best
The Problem
Pandering to the Gifted
Sports culture’s rigid rules, professional structure and drive for children to be sportsmanlike has left little to the imagination. We have long pandered to the gifted meanwhile leaving the majority of athletes behind to enjoy little or no sports success.
As sports science suggests, a better balance between talent development and winning in sport is needed.
Sports Science Got it Wrong
Sports science got it wrong when it said the entry point into sports is age six. The entry point into competitive sports is age six. But the entry point into sports is much earlier. Distinguishing between competitive and non-competitive sports has opened up many amazing opportunities for children and for us to change many of the issues facing children’s sports experience. Impacting children’s enjoyment of sports and their overall sports success became an early learning to elite athlete initiative.
We create the first study on early learning sports development in 2013
The Solution
The Foundational Model of Sport
In creating the science that would establish, for the first time, a foundation for sports; we were then able to use it to teach children sports in the ways they learn best.
We would use the science to create the Jelly Bean Way
A New Climb
Still faced with the same steep climb. Teaching children sports was not a new concept. Teaching children in the ways they learned best was also not a new concept. But teaching children sports in the ways they learned best, this was a new concept.
We knew one thing for certain. We had to stop conforming kids to fit sports and rather conform sports to better fit kids. This led to the development of the Jelly Bean Way. Today a benchmark for teaching children sports in the ways they learn best.
But how do you teach young children in the ways they learn best?
Children’s Entertainment
Our research took us to where we found our best answers to the question, how do you teach children in the ways they learn best. It was children’s entertainment.
It was 2008. Jelly Bean Sports Founder Dr. Brad Kayden, was single and had no children at the time. But he bought his ticket to children’s entertainment group, The Wiggles performing in Chicago. They along with Sesame Street would teach us how to teach children in the ways they learn best.
We knew how to teach children sports in the ways they learn best. But until more recently, we didn’t know why it worked so well.
Flow Science
Creating programming excellence is as much about the content as it is about how you make a child feel. Getting children to feel their best and perform at their best was something we were already doing. It wasn’t until it was understood that we were putting children into a flow state and what that did for kids, that we really realized the incredible learning power behind the Jelly Bean Way.
