The best-selling Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children offers the next generation of physical education teachers the best guide for step-by-step techniques for teaching physical education. This market-leading text covers everything from games and activities suitable for every developmental level to teaching strategies and guidelines for every classroom situation. Instruction and Program Implementation, Understanding the Need for Physical Education,Elementary School Physical Education, Teaching Children in the Physical Education Environment, The Instructional Process, Preparing A Quality Lesson, Curriculum Development, Improving Instructional Effectiveness, Management and Discipline, Children with Disabilities, Program Implementation,Evaluation, Legal Liability, Supervision, and Safety, Facilities, Equipment, and Supplies, Integrating Academic Concepts, Teaching the Objectives of Physical Education, Personal Health Skills, Creating an Active School Environment, Physical Fitness for Children, Promoting Health through Physical Education, Fundamental Skills, Movement Concepts and Themes, Fundamental Motor Skills and Introductory Activities, Manipulative Skills, Body Management Skills, Specialized and Lifetime Skills, Rhythmic Movement Skills, Gymnastic Skills, Cooperative Skills, Game Skills, Lifetime Activities, Lifetime Activities and Sport Skills, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Soccer, Softball, Track, Field, and Cross-Country Running, Volleyball For all readers interested in teaching physical education.
This is a useful textbook for better understanding physical education for elementary students and how to teach it. It emphasizes the importance of PE as well as various techniques and pedagogy. It has many many sample lesson ideas and skill practice. The book is divided into seven sections: understanding the need for physical education, the instructional process, program implementation, personal health skills, motor skills, specialized motor skills, and lifetime activities and sports skills.
Why this area of schools is still underfunded is beyond me. Should we ever go back to the old days of great PE lessons, this has over 200 samples to use and how to assess them.