Physical Education category: 327 books
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Kristy Howells, Mrs Alison Carney, Mr Neil Castle
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Mastering Primary Physical Education introduces the primary physical education curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make physical education irresistible.
Topics covered include:
· Current developments in physical education
· Physical...
by George Graham, Eloise Elliott, Stephen Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
It’s never been more challenging to teach physical education to children and adolescents. Between managing difficult behavior and adapting lessons for students with diverse needs, teachers have their hands full. Teaching Children and Adolescents Physical Education: Becoming a Master Teacher has...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Issues in Physical Education stimulates student-teachers, NQTs and practising physical education teachers to reflect on issues important to improving teaching in physical education. It encourages reflection and debate as an important part of professional development. Issues discussed include:
aims...
Assessment-Driven Instruction in Physical Education
A Standards-Based Approach to Promoting and Documenting Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
For the savvy educator, assessment can be a powerful tool for informing teaching decisions, improving student learning, and helping students achieve learning standards. Learn how to make the most of assessment with Assessment-Driven Instruction in Physical Education. With this text and web resource,...
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...
The Future of Physical Education
Building a New Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Anthony Laker leads an outstanding international team of educational theorists in critically examining the theoretical underpinnings of physical education, and in challenging the rhetoric, the practices and the pedagogies that prevail in our schools. There has been a great deal of discussion surrounding...
The Philosophy of Physical Education
A New Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The discipline area of physical education has historically struggled for legitimacy, sometimes being seen as a non-serious pursuit in educational terms compared to other subjects within the school curriculum. This book represents the first attempt in nearly thirty years to offer a coherent philosophical...
Girls, Gender and Physical Education
An Activist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical...