Contains everything your students need to get-and keep-children active. Regardless of skill or confidence level, your students will learn how to get children to work together, support each other, and gain competence in sport and fitness skills so that they can stay moving now and throughout their lifetime.

Mary is the leader of physical education. Great insight in this book for future educators or those who want to learn more about sports.

Authored by two leading experts in the field, the new eighth edition of Introduction to Physical Education, Fitness and Sport introduces readers to the history and philosophies underlying today’s professions while focusing on current trends and issues facing school Physical Education, fitness and sport. Specifically, the authors introduce readers to the professions’ key concepts, programming approaches, standards and expectations, as well as the problems and issues. As the United States seeks to reverse trends in overweight and obesity, readers will learn how these three professions have a central responsibility in creating an environment that supports, encourages and promotes physical activity for all people.

Written specifically for students of both Sports Science and Physical Education,Sport and Physical Education: The Key Conceptsis a reference guide to the disciplines, themes, topics and concerns current in contemporary sport. Entries on such diverse subjects as professionalism, history, exercise physiology and education offer an up-to-date perspective on the changing face of sport science.

Sport Education is an exciting approach to the teaching of PE. Sport Education: Research Based Practice presents teachers with a framework for developing units of work that will provide their students with challenging and enjoyable sporting experiences that involve them in an array of roles. In Sport Education students are not only players, they also become skilled and knowledgeable as captains, coaches, managers, match reporters and more. This book provides a complete guide to using the Sport Education model in PE and sport in schools including: * key issues in PE such as inclusion, assessment, cross-curricular learning; citizenship and lifelong learning. * sport Education in the context eg National Curriculum for Physical Education. * real world examples of how Sport Education has been used in both primary and secondary PE. * sport Education in the context of games, gymnastics, athletics, swimming, outdoors and adventurous activities. Sport Education is based upon original research and is the first collection of its kind. It will be an important resource for trainees, teachers and teacher educators looking to try Sport Education in their schools and training institutions.

In this book, world-renowned sport pedagogy specialist Daryl Siedentop explains his Sport Education Model and provides school-tested, ready-to-use plans for applying the model to specific sports and fitness activities. You'll discover how to use sport education in physical education classes to help children and youths become skillful in game play, become more enthusiastic participants, learn fair play, learn to perform competently in other areas of sport (such as managing, refereeing, and scorekeeping), learn self-responsibility, and become better equipped to function as both leaders and team players. You'll also learn how sport education programs help low-skilled students, and those who tend not to participate, become active and valued team members. Sport Education is an excellent reference for upper elementary, middle, and high school physical educators; district level curriculum specialists; and college teachers of curriculum/instruction and methods courses.

Contains 86 skills tests for 28 sports from the junior high through college level. Entries on tests offer descriptions, directions, and educational applications, and give notes on time and personnel needed, equipment and supplies, scoring method and norms, and validity and reliability. Chapter bibliographies include all sports skills tests constructed for a sport, whether authenticated or not. Lacks a subject index. Collins teaches physical education and sport science at St. Cloud State University. Hodges teaches physical education at Sinclair Community College. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Sport Education: International Perspectives presents a series of studies of the innovative pedagogical model that has taken the physical education world by storm. Since the emergence of the Sport Education model in the mid-1990s, it has been adopted and adapted in physical education programs around the world and a new research literature has followed in its wake. This book offers a review of international Sport Education schemes and projects, and documents what it takes to run a successful Sport Education program. Exploring Sport Education across all levels of education, from the elementary school to the university, the book provides answers to key question such as: what models have been developed to teach Sport Education? what do successful SE programs look like? what do teachers think about SE and how to make it work? what are the implications for professional development across the range of human movement studies? With contributions from leading international scholars and practitioners from the US, Europe and Asia, this book offers a more thoughtful and critical set of perspectives on sport education than any other. It is essential reading for any student, pre-service teacher, classroom teacher or university instructor working in SE, PE, youth sport, sports coaching or related disciplines.

Schoolwide Physical Activity: A Comprehensive Guide to Designing and Conducting Programs offers K-12 teachers and administrators the tools to plan and administer programs that go beyond PE class. These activities are integrated in the classroom, on playgrounds, in before- and after-school programs, in intramural programs, and in community programs.