Seminar in Physical Education: From Student Teaching to Teaching Students is a concise and complete text that offers a fresh approach to preparing preservice teachers for today's teaching and employment challenges.
Because it addresses all 10 of NASPE's National Standards for Beginning Physical Education Teachers, this book is an ideal supplemental text for use during the student teaching semester or other practicum experience, helping preservice teachers reflect on their experiences in the school setting. In addition, Seminar in Physical Education, -helps students build professional portfolios through suggested assignments, -aids in their transition to the professional community, and, -encourages a career of continued professional development.
The depth and length of the text are especially appropriate for physical education teacher education (PETE) programs that can't add another 3-credit course to their course requirements but want to teach this content within a methods or pedagogy course, during student teaching, or in a 1- or 2-credit course. Far from an outdated “organization and administration” text, Seminar in Physical Education is a text with real-world applications, grounding students in the realities of today's world of teaching as offered through the expertise and insights of an author team with a combined century of experience in physical activity and PETE instruction.
The book includes brief realistic chapter-opening vignettes that can be used as springboards to meaningful discussions and assignments. Chapter-ending discussion questions focus on critical-thinking skills, and each chapter provides professional portfolio-building ideas that will prepare students for their first job hunts and for their careers. A "Further Resources" section helps connect preservice and new teachers to ongoing support. Throughout the book, student learning is reinforced through discussion, writing, and research opportunities. 
Part I exposes students to the reflective cycle and the processes of identifying and using available resources and constructing a professional development plan. Part II examines the issues of collaboration and communication, addressing advocacy skills, participation in the physical education professional community, access to and use of community resources, and establishment of productive relationships within the school and community. Part III explores curricular implementation, covering liability and risk, resources, technology, professionalism, and portfolio development. Through discussions and assignments, teachers can make connections to technology and communication skills, and the authors make multiple additional tie-ins to the NASPE standards throughout the text.
Through Seminar in Physical Education, PETE instructors can send their students into the teaching arena with a better understanding of themselves and the real world of schools, administration, and the need for ongoing professional development.

Seminar in Physical Education: From Student Teaching to Teaching Students

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Castelli, Darla M.

Werner, Peter H.

Lynn, Susan

Cone, Stephen L.

Exercise & Fitness

Human Kinetics

Hide-and-seek is an age-old game that has never lost its allure. Geocaching—using a global positioning system and other navigational techniques to find hidden containers, or caches—brings this classic favorite to an exciting new level. 
Geocaching for Schools and Communities is the ideal resource for organizing geocaching for learners of any age group. Written by authors who have presented geocaching at five national AAHPERD conferences, this one-stop resource provides everything you need to know about leading and participating in geocaching activities: 
 • How to use GPS units and set up caching activities 
 • How to use both low-tech and high-tech approaches to caching so your fun isn’t dependent on your level of technological expertise 
 • How to create interdisciplinary connections using caching activities 
 • Strategies for developing geocaching programs and clubs in a variety of settings, including schools and recreation and youth programs 
 You learn the history of geocaching, the nuts and bolts of how it works, and strategies for using geocaching for health-related fitness. This book offers in-depth information about satellites and the triangulation necessary for locating latitude and longitude coordinates and how to use computers and the Internet in geocaching as well as low-tech discussions of using maps in finding caches. 
 You also explore the numerous types of caches available, learn step by step how to find and log a cache, and discover the types of items commonly placed in a cache. Along the way, you receive tips on caching etiquette. 
 In addition to the geocaching learning experience, the book includes a chapter devoted to achieving fitness through geocaching. All the learning experiences are built around interdisciplinary connections with academic subjects. The book contains four complete learning experiences for each discipline: language arts, science, math, and social studies. 
 Choose from 31 learning experiences to use with your group, or use these ideas as a starting point to create your own learning experiences. The variety of experiences help keep the adventures fresh and lively, and the learners will clamor for more. 
Geocaching for Schools and Communities will get kids, adults, and families outdoors being active and having fun. The interdisciplinary learning experiences—involving physical education, language arts, math, science, and social studies—bring in an educational dimension that enhances the fun for learners of all ages. Through the expert guidance of the authors, you are grounded in the basics and can advance the games as far as you want, adapting them for age and experience levels. 
 Each learning experience lets you know what ages the activity is appropriate for, the objectives of the experience, the equipment needed, a complete description of how to conduct the activity, and how to assess the experience. The authors also provide key points for leaders to look for as the students go through the experience, as well as ways to vary each activity by introducing new skills or changing the level of difficulty. 
 So what are you waiting for? There’s a cache somewhere out there for your group right now! Get Geocaching forSchools and Communities and track it down.

Geocaching for Schools and Communities

Taylor, J. Kevin

Kremer, DuAnn

Pebworth, Katherine

Sports & Outdoors

A movement approach to games for children

Mosby

Inexpensive physical education equipment for children

Burgess Pub. Co

This text combines traditional Olympic-style skills with the developmental approach of educational gymnastics and explains the why and how of teaching gymnastics effectively. It presents 24 practical, child-tested examples of gymnastics activities called Learning Experiences that are suitable for ages three to eleven. The Learning Experiences are divided into three skill themes: travelling, statics and rotation.

Teaching Children Gymnastics: Becoming a Master Teacher

Individual Sports

This third edition of Teaching Children Gymnastics will help you tailor a gymnastics program to your teaching situation while combining the best facets of developmental skills, health-related fitness, and conceptual learning based on process characteristics of body, space, effort, and relationships. Internationally renowned author and educator Peter Werner and coauthors Lori Williams and Tina Hall guide you through the process of teaching gymnastics skills and then linking those skills into sequences. 
 Having conducted workshops at all levels, the three authors combine decades’ worth of gymnastics knowledge and teaching experience. In this book, they offer updated and new material, including 
 • a chapter on designing gymnastics sequences; 
 • sections on behavior management, inclusion, and advocacy; 
 • information on scope and sequence for grades K to 5; 
 • information based on revised national standards, assessment, and designing of gymnastics sequences; and 
 • additional learning experiences, plus ideas for creating more learning experiences. 
 You will find real-life scenarios that will help you apply the material, and you will learn how to create a positive learning environment for your students. Chapter objectives, summaries, and reflection questions enhance the learning experience. 
Part I of Teaching Children Gymnastics provides an overview of developmentally appropriate gymnastics, exploring why it should be part of a high-quality elementary physical education program and how the instructional approach used in the book differs from the traditional approach used in physical education. The material in part I will help you plan your program, incorporate it into your curriculum, and assess your students. 
Part II provides great learning experiences for the skill themes of traveling, statics, and rotation. Each skill theme is broken into categories that help children acquire the skills they need to learn. It’s in this portion that they develop sequences that integrate all the skills they have learned. The authors also supply an appendix with forms and handouts, cutting down your preparation time. 
Teaching Children Gymnastics is a great tool for novice and experienced teachers alike. More than that, it’s the perfect resource for opening up the fun and exciting world of gymnastics to youngsters who are always looking for an excuse to perform just the types of skills that they will learn—and design sequences for—through this book.

Teaching Children Gymnastics

Williams, Lori H.

Hall, Tina J.

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