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The Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) is a movement-based program which helps younger students improve their eye/hand and eye/foot coordination, fitness, balance, locomotion and eye-tracking skills. Based at the school, the program uses a variety of equipment and focuses on engaging the students in semi-intensive activities. We rely on the assistance of volunteer parents for these sessions and younger siblings are welcome to join in. PMP Parent Presentation
Motor learning is a subdiscipline of motor behavior that examines how people acquire motor skills. Motor learning is a relatively permanent change in the ability to execute a motor skill as a result of practice or experience. This is in contrast to performance, the act of executing a motor skill that results in a temporary, nonpermanent change. One way to conceptualize this difference is to consider the change of state in an egg (Schmidt & Lee, 2014). When an egg is boiled, there is a permanent change in the state of that egg. The egg has irreversibly transformed into a solid. To conceptualize performance, we could make an analogy to water. When temperatures drop below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 °C), water solidifies to ice. This is not a permanent change, because water will convert back to its original form if temperatures increase again to above 32 degrees Fahrenheit. The permanent change that results from boiling an egg is analogous to the permanent change in the ability to perform a motor skill, or motor learning. The change in water resulting from temperature increases or decreases, on the other hand, is analogous to performance changes because of its lack of permanency.
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