Description
Used by over a half-million students, the best-selling Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children offers the next generation of physical education teachers the best guide in step-by-step techniques for teaching physical education. This text covers everything from games and activities suitable for every developmental level to teaching strategies and guidelines for common classroom situations.
Whether instructors are starting a new program, restructuring an established one, or working with a team in an existing system, Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children provides the best combination of theoretical framework and hands-on activities available. The Seventeenth Edition underscores the importance of lesson plans provided in the accompanying Curriculum Guide by calling them out in the text and including them with the main text at no additional charge, offering the best value to students forrunning a successful PE class from Day 1. Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children provides solid suggestions for incorporating physical education elements into classroom spaces, highlights the importance of teaching toward every student, emphasizes the tie between academics and PE, and underscores the importance of lifetime physical activity.
Table of Contents
I. Instruction and Program Implementation
Section 1. Understanding the Need for Physical Education
1. Elementary School Physical Education
2. Understanding the Growth and Development of Children
Section 2. The Instructional Process
3. Preparing a Quality Lesson
4. Curriculum Development
5. Improving Instructional Effectiveness
6. Management and Discipline
7. Children with Disabilities
Section 3. Program Implementation
8. Evaluation
9. Legal Liability, Supervision, and Safety
10. Facilities, Equipment, and Supplies
11. Integrating Academic Concepts in Physical Education
12. Promoting and Monitoring Physical Activity
II. Teaching the Objectives of Physical Education
Section 4. Personal Health Skills
12. Promoting and Monitoring Physical Activity
13. Physical Fitness
14. Active and Healthy Schools
Section 5. Motor Skills
15. Movement Concepts and Themes
16. Fundamental Motor Skills and Introductory Activities
17. Manipulative Skills
18. Body Management Skills
Section 6. Specialized Motor Skills
19. Rhythmic Movement Skills
20. Gymnastic Skills
21. Cooperative Skills
22. Game Skills
Section 7. Lifetime Activities and Sport Skills
23. Lifetime Activities
24. Basketball
25. Football
26. Hockey
27. Soccer
28. Softball
29. Track, Field, and Cross-Country Running
30. Volleyball
Backmatter: Glossary, General Index, Activities Index, Photo Credits
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Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children, CourseSmart eTextbook, 17th Edition
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$66.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-79354-6
