Professionals in educational and recreational settings work hard to understand and address the problems faced by underserved youth. Yet the dedicated people in these institutions are often limited in what they can achieve because they tend to remain within the confines of their own work environment rather than sharing their expertise and resources.
Instead of accepting this as an unfortunate fact of life, the coauthors of this book see the situation as an opportunity to develop an approach in which the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. In Youth Development and Physical Activity: Linking Universities and Communities, they draw on their considerable teaching experience to present innovative new ways to serve underserved youth. 
The book describes practical strategies for breaking down the walls between universities and communities so they can combine their strengths to improve young people's lives. You'll find a wealth of guidelines for creating physical activity programs that instill a sense of social and personal responsibility, including numerous real-life examples of successful programs.
Youth Development and Physical Activity: Linking Universities and Communities is divided into four parts, each enriched with the colorful “voices” and stories of real kids and youth leaders who have put these ideas into practice: 
-Part I provides a sobering look at the challenges today's young people face and introduces positive ways to improve physical activity youth programs so they're meaningful in today's world. 
-In Part II, you'll learn how to move from “how it is” to “how it could be,” using a breakthrough model for working with kids and building programs. Here the book provides a road map that shows the way for university students and faculty to connect with youth in their communities through service learning, internships, and other outreach programs
-Part III spells out how to develop a variety of proven youth physical activity programs—from adventure experiences and Coaching Clubs to mentoring and teen parent programs. You'll find many great ideas that work in virtually any setting, including public schools, alternative schools, recreation programs, youth service groups, and social agencies. 
-Part IV provides a variety of helpful tools for evaluating programs and improving outcomes, as well as insights on how professionals can develop the skills they need to respond to the changing demands on youth leaders. 
Written by professionals with a combined 70 years of experience working with underserved youth, this book is must reading for both professionals and organizations practicing in a world where youth too often slip through the cracks. It provides a clear and hopeful framework for improving the lives of kids as well as the communities in which they live.

Youth Development & Physical Activity: Linking Univ./Communities

Hellison, Don

Stiehl, Jim

Cutforth, Nicholas

Kallusky, James

Martinek, Thomas

Parker,Melissa

Sports & Outdoors

Human Kinetics

In this revised and expanded second edition, you'll 
-learn about the basic convictions needed for teaching social and personal responsibility to children and youth;
-hear from real teachers and kids in real schools and other programs;
-acquire new strategies, field-tested in both inner-city and suburban settings; and
-gain a better understanding of how to guide children and youth to become their social and personal bests.
In Teaching Responsibility Through Physical Activity, Second Edition, Don Hellison guides teachers in using physical activity to foster personal and social responsibility. Hellison's expanded and revised classic provides strategies that have been field-tested in inner-city and suburban settings and will help you guide your students toward greater responsibility.
This new edition of Teaching Responsibility Through Physical Activity is focused on teaching in school settings. It includes the following features:
-KidQuotes, comments from real kids to motivate you to apply the concepts)
-Updated references
-“Take-Aways” that summarize each chapter and help you consider your own situation
-New chapters on the lesson plan structure
-Information on how to integrate responsibility into physical activity lessons
-Strategies for specific problems that arise in class
-Guidelines for assessment of responsibility
PETE instructors and course adopters can use this book to help preservice physical education teachers and recreation leaders develop methods for promoting personal and social responsibility. 
Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a preservice teacher, you'll find that Hellison's popular guide, which includes a foreword by internationally renowned educator Daryl Siedentop, has been taken to an even higher level—one that can help you have a great impact on your students.

Teaching Responsiblity Through Physical Activity - 2nd

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity, now entering its third edition, attests to author Don Hellison’s ability to shape and develop character and responsibility in children. Perhaps the success of Hellison’s book can be attributed to his status not only as a highly respected scholar-activist but as a teacher who worked in the trenches with inner-city kids. 
 Kids in any situation will benefit from the thoroughly updated material in this edition, which presents practical, proven, easy-to-implement ideas for teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) in school, after school, and in alternative settings. It also supplies direction in teaching affective and social moral goals, an in-depth look into teaching character development and values, and a method for helping students develop personal and social responsibility. 
Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity offers much new material: 
 • Strategies for alternative schools, afterschool programs, and the emerging youth development movement 
 • Vignettes sprinkled throughout the chapters, written by TPSR instructors in various settings 
 • Several chapters that have been completely overhauled 
 • An expanded assessment chapter to help readers evaluate the impact of TPSR on their kids and apply the strategies 
 • One new chapter on combining responsibility-based youth development with teacher preparation in physical education 
 In addition, the book features “Kid Quotes” to help readers understand how kids respond to the TPSR approach, as well as forms and charts to help readers put the ideas and strategies to use. 
 The result is a field-tested book that is the accepted curricular model in the field—and a resource that will enable teachers to help their students grow into solid citizens both personally and socially.

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity

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