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by Harold W. Kohl III, Tinker D. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Foundations of Physical Activity and Public Health is the first textbook to clearly define the intersection of kinesiology and public health. Authors Kohl and Murray, both leaders in the field, offer a solid introduction to the concepts of public health and kinesiology, the techniques used to measure...
by SHAPE America - Society of Health and Physical Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Focused on physical literacy and measurable outcomes, empowering physical educators to help students meet the Common Core standards, and coming from a recently renamed but longstanding organization intent on shaping a standard of excellence in physical education, National Standards & Grade-Level...
Physical Best
Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Physical educators play a critical role in shaping the health and fitness of America’s youth—and Physical Best, Fourth Edition, is the resource that will help them achieve success in that role.
Physical Best, developed by experts identified by SHAPE America, has long been the standard in...
Physical Literacy on the Move
Games for Developing Confidence and Competence in Physical Activity
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Authors have addressed physical literacy in books before—but these books have never comprehensively tied theory to practice. Author Heather Gardner has found a way to help K-12 physical and health education teachers bridge this gap in Physical Literacy on the Move.
The result? Students not...
Physical Therapy in Acute Care
A Clinician’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Safe and effective management is a top priority for every physical therapy student or clinician involved with patients in the acute care setting. Physical Therapy in Acute Care: A Clinician’s Guide is a user-friendly, pocket-sized, evidence-based text that guides and reinforces successful acute...
Physical and Health Education in Canada
Integrated Approaches for Elementary Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Physical and Health Education in Canada: Integrated Approaches for Elementary Teachers is a comprehensive text for Canadian teacher candidates preparing for responsibilities associated with physical and health education teaching in the elementary grades (K through 8). The book also serves as a practical...
The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education is the definitive guide for future K-12 physical educators, as well as current teachers and administrators, and is an appropriate resource for learning to teach at both the elementary and the secondary levels.
Preparing Future Teachers for Success
The...
Creative Physical Education
Integrating Curriculum Through Innovative PE Projects
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Creative Physical Education offers a flexible extended learning experience for children and teens that focuses on physical, cognitive, and interpersonal knowledge and skill development. A combination teacher’s guide and student workbook, Creative Physical Education has everything you need, including...
by Barry W. Lavay, Ron French, Hester L. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
It’s never been more challenging to manage behavior and motivate students in a physical activity setting.
There are more at-risk children and students with disabilities to manage. Physical activity professionals also face the unique challenge of providing instruction to large groups with...
by Doris L. Watson, Brian Dean Clocksin
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Using Physical Activity and Sport to Teach Personal and Social Responsibility shows you how to implement a character education program in your school or community organization. Authors Watson and Clocksin offer an ideal companion text to Don Hellison's classic Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility...
Cooperative Learning in Physical Education and Physical Activity
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book introduces Cooperative Learning as a research-informed, practical way of engaging children and young people in lifelong physical activity. Written by authors with over 40 years’ experience as teachers and researchers, it addresses the practicalities of using Cooperative Learning in...
by David Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools no longer exists?
In this controversial and powerful meditation on physical education, David Kirk argues that a number of different futures are possible. Kirk argues that multi-activity, sport-based forms of physical education have...
Physical Literacy
Throughout the Lifecourse
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
What is physical literacy?
What are the benefits of being physically literate?
The term ‘physical literacy’ describes the motivation, confidence, physical competence, understanding and knowledge that individuals develop in order to maintain physical activity at an appropriate level throughout...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of understanding,...