- Boost self-esteem and promote understanding of other cultures - Teach responsibility, social skills, and respect for differences through fun activities - Hold students' interest with fresh content—even with large groups
If you teach physical education at the middle or high school level, you know that holding students' interest can be a challenge. Teens don't want to repeat the same old games they've been playing since grade school. What if you could introduce new activities that would renew your students' interest, improve their self-esteem, and help them gain a better understanding of other cultures?
A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education enables you to do just that. This book offers the following:
- 70 games and activities from 24 cultures - The authors' new teaching strategy—a step-by-step process that tells you exactly how to teach games and sports from other countries - Activities that don't require any special equipment, so you can implement them even if you're on a limited budget - Easy-to-use assessment strategies 
This book is the result of extensive field testing. You'll find it especially helpful if you teach classes of large group sizes, where it is often difficult to provide a quality physical education experience. The activities are intended not only to help your students become more active physically but also to increase their interactions with other students and to teach them to work together to reach common goals. The activities encourage responsible personal and social behavior and help students develop understanding and respect for differences among people—two important NASPE standards for physical activity.
The first section of the book is devoted to teaching strategies. You'll find everything you need to adopt a multicultural approach: implementation processes for individual and group activities, teaching practices designed to increase participation, and tips for presenting skills, concepts, and activities. 
The second section presents the two types of games and activities: those for increased individual interactions and those for increased group interactions. An Activity Finder makes it easy to select the activities that fit the needs of your class size and agenda. You can choose games according to the country you're studying or the desired outcome.
The book's final section presents ideas for assessing outcomes and expanding the curriculum. You'll find three sample rubrics that you can use to assess each lesson's multicultural outcome. You'll also find a variety of ideas and techniques that you can use to enhance the students' learning environment—for example, the NASPE content standards and charts listing common English words and their foreign-language equivalents.
No other book offers a multicultural approach that explains how to teach older students in multiethnic physical education settings and how to expand all students' understanding of international games and sports. Use this integrated teaching approach to enhance your students' knowledge and ability in sports and their understanding and appreciation of other cultures.

A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education: Proven Strategies for Middle and High School

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Clements, Rhonda L.

Kinzler, Suzanne K.

Exercise & Fitness

Human Kinetics

Urban Physical Education targets the teaching circumstances and conditions of urban schools with innovative instructional practices and culturally diverse and contemporary activities. You’ll find games and modified sports from around the world as well as sport and performance activities such as urban dances, parkour, urban golf, freestyle basketball, and fitness routines. 
 Each of the 40 activities includes a brief description, a simplified teaching process, key instructional points, alignment with NASPE national standards, and a basic closure activity. An activity finder makes it easy to find activities to fit in your curriculum, and ready-made rubrics help you assess readiness of preservice teachers, partner and group interactions, and lesson effectiveness. 
 Authors Clements and Rady combine their expertise and experience to help you better understand urban school environments and become a more effective leader, instructor, and mentor to the diverse students in your school. More than an activity book, Urban Physical Education identifies the common challenges facing today’s urban physical education teachers and presents culturally responsive instructional practices developed by experienced teachers working in urban schools. 
 Suggestions and tools in the book will help you improve your teaching demeanor, respond to behavioral problems, implement protocols for large classes, and address the needs of English language learners. With Urban Physical Education, you’ll learn how to generate a new level of student enthusiasm and participation; develop and reinforce effective teaching practices; and enhance your existing curriculum with innovative, contemporary, and culturally diverse activities for middle and high school students.

Urban Physical Education: Instructional Practices and Cultural Activities

Meltzer Rady, Amy

Sports & Outdoors

The lessons and activities in Moving to Discover the USA can help you spark your students' imaginations by using movement to teach lessons about the people, symbols, and events of American history, geography, geology, and culture. The lessons are ideally suited for children in grades K-4. Moving to Discover the USA provides more than 200 original games, rhymes, and songs to get kids moving and involved. Most activities provided require a minimum of space and little or no equipment. Each subsection of the book has a theme page to help teachers find topics to supplement existing elementary school curricula. And each lesson is clearly illustrated, allowing you to practice basic movement skills before organizing a game, song, dance, or movement activity. The book is divided into eight sections: Americana, This Land, Famous Americans, Native Americans, Man-Made Landmarks, Natural Wonders, Building a Country, and Transportation. It addresses common topics by age level and according to national standards. With 42 lessons on subjects ranging from Harriet Tubman, to cowpokes, to the Grand Canyon, this innovative guide adds liveliness to your lesson plans.

Moving to Discover the USA

Lee, Mike

Human Kinetics Publishers

The earlier that children develop a love for physical activity, the better able they are to acquire the healthy habits that will serve them well throughout their lives. Moving With Words &amp; Actions is designed to help them develop that critical physical literacy. 
Moving With Words &amp; Actions offers early childhood and physical education teachers more than 70 lesson plans that can be used immediately or can be used as models for creating additional lessons. The plans reinforce both physical literacy and language literacy; they use words related to children’s academic learning and understanding of their immediate environment to entice them to move. The lesson plans 
 • Use an interdisciplinary approach, integrating academic concepts from language arts, math, science, health and nutrition, community awareness, and environmental awareness 
 • Are highly adaptable for various settings, including those working with individualized education programs and 504 accommodation plans as well as those teaching in limited spaces 
 • Offer great noncompetitive activities that are perfect for use by recess, lunchtime, and before- and after-school specialists
 • Have been field tested according to best practices to ensure age appropriateness 
 Each lesson plan includes three learning tasks that help children apply a variety of action words and movement concepts to the moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activities prescribed in the tasks. Most tasks are easy to implement, requiring no equipment or specialized setting. What’s more, all lesson plans address SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education, so preschool children will have a head start on their kindergarten learning. 
 This SHAPE America book, based on the authors’ classic Movement-Based Learning, has been completely revamped with new lessons and new material to reflect current research, address the new standards and outcomes, and emphasize physical literacy. Part I offers expert guidance in selecting age-appropriate content, creating and implementing lesson plans, making the most of every lesson, and assessing your students’ learning and progress. In part I, you’ll explore the importance of words in young children’s lives and learn what constitutes an appropriate learning task and how that understanding should inform your teaching. These chapters also highlight two primary instructional strategies for this age group, identify five teaching practices to help student teachers create preservice lessons, and outline three assessment techniques for teachers in early-childhood settings. 
Part II supplies the lesson plans themselves, categorized by these units: 
 • Healthy Bodies (examining body parts and the ways they move, and increasing awareness of healthy nutrition) 
 • Our Community (enhancing children’s understanding of community helpers in familiar roles) 
 • Living Creatures (helping children appreciate animals by imitating their movements, behaviors, and characteristics) 
 • Science and Math (using action rhymes, riddles, and games to learn math and science concepts) 
 • Language Arts (expanding on children’s language artss and movement vocabularies with alphabet challenges, action poems, movement riddles, and more) 
Moving With Words &amp; Actions will help you plan lessons with confidence, use sound instructional strategies, and assess your students effectively as they learn how their bodies function, move, and grow in healthy ways. Children will enjoy the movement activities, which are fun in and of themselves; but, more importantly, they will be taking a solid first step toward becoming physically literate learners who will gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to move with competence in multiple environments and lead active lives.

Moving With Words & Actions: Physical Literacy for Preschool and Primary Children (SHAPE America set the Standard)

Education & Teaching

Schneider, Sharon L.

Schools & Teaching

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