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 Essentials of Teaching Physical Education is the most up-to-date resource that aligns with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education. The text is comprehensive in its coverage of what future teachers need to know about teaching K-12 physical education and offers a flexible, individualized approach to enhancing student learning and acquisition of skills.
The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education helps prepare future teachers by providing them with the following:
- Insight into student motivation
- A working knowledge of standards-based outcomes and content that will help students achieve the outcomes
- The ability to plan for learning in both the short and the long term
- Management and teaching skills to ensure an equitable environment that fosters student learning in three domains: psychomotor, cognitive, and affective
- The means to assess student learning and program effectiveness
Teaching for Learning Approach
In addition,
The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education offers a practical and highly successful teaching for learning approach to curriculum development, which makes it easy to put the contents of the book into action and prepare students to graduate with a high degree of physical literacy. The book’s focus on physical literacy, accountability, and social justice—all key elements to high-quality physical education—will prepare future teachers to step into their jobs on day one, ready to deliver an effective program. The text also supplies a vocabulary of the current terminology used in physical education.
Ancillaries and Book Organization
The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education comes with a test bank, a PowerPoint presentation package that has approximately 15 slides per chapter, and a web resource with reproducible forms and supplemental activities.
The authors organized the book in five parts. Part I focuses on understanding the teaching for learning approach, and part II details the five national physical education standards. Part III delves into unit and lesson planning and developmentally appropriate content and curriculum models, and part IV explores how to establish safe learning environments, develop essential teaching skills, and assess student learning. Part V completes the picture for future students by tackling issues that are important to 21st-century skills and professional development.
The Resource for Developing Physically Literate Students
The result is a practical and well-researched resource that will help current and future physical educators develop physically literate students while providing guidance for accountability and social justice and meeting SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education. And that makes it a win–win–win: a win for teachers and future teachers, a win for their students, and a win for the United States as it progresses toward becoming a healthier nation.
Preface
Acknowledgments
How to Access the Web Resource
Part I Building the Foundation of a Teaching for Learning Approach
- Chapter 1 Developing Physically Literate People
- Promoting Physical Literacy
- Academic Links to Physical Literacy
- Summary
- Chapter 2 Understanding a Teaching for Learning Approach
- Curricular Alignment in Physical Education
- Instructional Alignment in Physical Education
- Summary
- Chapter 3 Examining Student Motivation
- Establishing a Motivating Environment
- Retaining Students’ Motivation
- Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Motivation
- Eradicating Amotivation
- Summary
Part II Teaching to the National Physical Education Standards
- Chapter 4 Standard 1: Developing Motor Skills and Movement Patterns
- Competency Versus Proficiency
- Motor Skills and Phases of Performance
- Elementary School: K–Grade 5
- Middle School: Grades 6–8
- High School: Grades 9–12
- Summary
- Chapter 5 Standard 2: Applying Concepts, Principles, Strategies, and Tactics
- Elementary School: K–Grade 5
- Middle School: Grades 6–8
- High School: Grades 9–12
- Summary
- Chapter 6 Standard 3: Achieving Health-Enhancing Physical Activity and Fitness
- Elementary School: K–Grade 5
- Middle School: Grades 6–8
- High School: Grades 9–12
- Summary
- Chapter 7 Standard 4: Exhibiting Responsible Personal and Social Behavior
- Elementary School: K–Grade 5
- Middle School: Grades 6–8
- High School: Grades 9–12
- Summary
- Chapter 8 Standard 5: Recognizing the Value of Physical Activity
- Elementary School: K–Grade 5
- Middle School: Grades 6–8
- High School: Grades 9–12
- Summary
Part III Building the Curriculum
- Chapter 9 Unit and Lesson Planning
- Unit Planning
- Lesson Planning
- Summary
- Chapter 10 Planning Developmentally Appropriate Content
- Types of Knowledge
- Standards, Outcomes, and Assessments
- Learning Domains
- Students’ Prior Knowledge and Experiences
- Sequencing of Content and Task Progressions
- Modifying Content
- Summary
- Chapter 11 Curriculum Models
- Skill Theme Approach
- Personal and Social Responsibility
- Tactical Games Model
- Sport Education Model
- Fitness Education
- Adventure Education
- Outdoor Education
- Cultural Studies
- Implementing Curriculum Models Within Units of Instruction
- Summary
Part IV Instruction and Assessment
- Chapter 12 Establishing and Managing a Safe Learning Environment
- Setting Rules for Your Gymnasium
- Managing Student Behavior
- Maximizing Learning and Activity Time
- Managing the Learning Environment During Instruction and Activity
- Summary
- Chapter 13 Developing Essential Teaching Skills
- Exploring Instructional Styles
- Employing Effective Teaching Tactics
- Summary
- Chapter 14 Assessing Student Learning
- Purposes of Assessment
- Grading Schemes
- Selecting Appropriate Assessments
- Types of Assessments
- Organizing and Interpreting Data
- Summary
Part V Developing as a Professional
- Chapter 15 21st Century Skills in Physical Education
- Framework for 21st-Century Learning
- 21st Century Student Outcomes
- 21st Century Support Systems
- Summary
- Chapter 16 Advocacy and Professional Development
- Advocating for Your Profession
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Summary
Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors
Textbook for undergraduate physical education, pedagogy, and assessment courses. Reference for K-12 administrators and teachers.
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