Physical Education category: 327 books
Examination Physical Education
Policy, Practice and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In recent decades physical education has moved from the margins, redefining itself as an academic subject. An important component of this transformation has been the introduction of high-stakes examinations at key points in a student’s school career and the emergence of ‘examination physical education’...
by Julia Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
'Trainee teachers will welcome the concise and reader-friendly format this book offers. Julia Lawrence has taken great care to provide a balanced and relevant overview of the major topics trainee teachers often lack confidence in, when planning and delivering lessons. A particularly useful and welcome...
Developmental Physical Education for All Children
Theory Into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
A book that has long been a standard for developmental physical education returns in a new, thoroughly updated edition with a sharpened focus on preparing tomorrow’s physical educators to deliver developmentally appropriate lessons and activities for children in pre-K through grade 5.
Developmental...
Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction
An Evidence-Based and Teacher-Tested Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
As a physical educator (or student preparing to become one), you need to know more than the skills, techniques, and tactics of the sports and activities you teach. You need to understand, among other things, how to create task progressions, how to organize and adapt those tasks, and how to detect...
A Teacher's Guide to Adapted Physical Education
Including Students With Disabilities in Sports and Recreation, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A healthy, active lifestyle for all students: That's the promise of physical education, and the goal of this comprehensive textbook. Now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition, this text prepares current and future PE teachers to lead welcoming, inclusive classes where every student participates,...
Game Changer
Phil Lawler's Crusade to Help Children by Improving Physical Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Engaging and inspiring, Game Changer: Phil Lawler’s Crusade to Help Children by Improving Physical Education charts Lawler’s tireless mission to refocus physical education to a wellness-based model that encourages fitness for a lifetime. Game Changer captures the passion of this legend in the...
Building Character, Community, and a Growth Mindset in Physical Education
Activities That Promote Learning and Emotional and Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Building Character, Community, and a Growth Mindset in Physical Education is a highly practical and theoretically sound resource that will help you build a positive learning environment, teach valuable life skills, and inspire in students a desire to live active, healthy lives. It reinforces the many...
The Psychology of Teaching Physical Education
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This book weaves together theory, research, and practical information related to the psychological aspects of physical education. Unlike other exercise/sport psychology books on the market, The Psychology of Teaching Physical Education is written especially for future and practicing physical educators...
Cooperative Learning in Physical Education
A research based approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Cooperative Learning is a dynamic instructional model that can teach diverse content to students at different grade levels, with students working together in small, structured, heterogeneous groups to master subject content. It has a strong research tradition, is used frequently as a professional...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
An essential component of good practice in physical education is ensuring inclusivity for all pupils, regardless of need, ability or background. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, Equity and Inclusion in Physical Education fully explores the theoretical and practical issues faced by physical...
Physical Education for Homeschool, Classroom, and Recreation Settings
102 Games With Variations
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Remember the days when, with very little equipment and just a few kids, you could have an endless amount of fun playing games?
Those days are back. And Physical Education for Homeschool, Classroom, and Recreation Settings: 102 Games With Variations adds a twist to those fun games: They are...
Defining Physical Education (Routledge Revivals)
The Social Construction of a School Subject in Postwar Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1992, David Kirk’s book analyses the public debate leading up to the 1987 General Election over the place and purpose of physical education in British schools. By locating this debate in a historical context, specifically in the period following the end of the Second World War,...
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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,...