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New editions of the successful series of teaching plans to helpnon-specialist primary teachers to implement the physical educationcurriculum. Each book contains photocopiable lesson plans, withadditional teacher notes, to help teach imaginitively and effectively.Each book covers the National Curriculum requirements for each year,covering games, gymnastic activities and dance in clearly labelledsections. A specially designed music CD is sold separately to accompany theseries and delivers musical accompaniment to the dance sections of eachbook. Leapfrogs are packed with invaluable information onhow to teach PE, its value and importance to the school curriculum, inaddition to necessary subject knowledge, teaching strategies,progression and achievement, and assessment. New material in the new editions: How to structure a first lessonwith a new class; Using 'themes' in PE (including body parts/bodyshapes/space/partner work/sequences); and Progressing gymnasticactivities. The introductory material has been revised, examining theimportance of PE in improving the health and wellbeing of children.Also includes a CD of all lesson plans in PDF format for ease of use."These lesson plans are a godsend for those of us with no specialism in PE in the primary School. Each covers a whole year from Foundation Stage to Year 6." The Teacher 'Any teacher following Jim Hall's advice on lesson planning will beensuring that their pupils have a high quality of experience inphysical education which should mean instilling in them a love of sportand physical activity for life.' Kate Hoey MP ... Read more

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Take a Bow! Lesson Plans for Pre-School Drama is a teacher’s guide o creating successful drama lessons for the pre-school age group.The book outlines and explains four major types of drama lessons designed specifically for pre-school children.In addition, it leads both the new and seasoned pre-school teacher through follow-up activities that will teach students valuable lessons, as well as keeping them entertained.

Thousands of pre-schools across the country advertise on their web sites and in their catalogues that they offer a Drama class as a part of their curriculum. Yet, you will find very few college education departments teaching how to create such a drama class for this age group – and even fewer books on the subject.Take a Bow! Speaks directly to both today’s creatively minded pre-school teachers who are looking to bring a new aspect of learning into their classroom, as well as the drama teacher in search of knowledge from an experienced educator on dealing with this age group. ... Read more

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Together, these two books provide the background information teachers need and complete lesson plans to teach physical education. Both concepts and lesson plans are based on research from motor learning and development, exercise, physiology and sport psychology. The package features 376 lesson plans for every day of the year that include built-in, ready-to-use activities. The package is aimed at preservice physical education teachers taking courses in primary physical education, in-service classroom teachers, and primary physical education specialists. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Dance Magazine, Inc. on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 797 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lesson plan: student teaching with David Dorfman.
Author: Rachel Howard
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 79Issue: 5Page: S4(2)

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1933 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Using your personal digital assistant to store lesson plans. (Technology Tips).
Author: Emyr W. Williams
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 73Issue: 3Page: 16(3)

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on February 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1842 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Higher education must train preservice physical education (PE) teachers based on the requirements of more technologically literate students. At the University of Central Florida, an innovative way to develop lesson plans has been discovered by using multimedia authoring software, such as HyperStudio, that lets students integrate text, graphics, video, audio and digitized images into their lesson plans. A multimedia lesson plan can become a three-dimensional lesson plan that is advantageous in PE as it can show physical movements.

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Title: Multimedia lesson plans - help for preservice teachers.
Author: Debby L. Mitchell
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1997
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: v68Issue: n2Page: p17(4)

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on November 1, 2008. The length of the article is 3854 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Object lesson plans for health-related fitness (HRF).(Report)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2008
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 79Issue: 9Page: 20(6)

Article Type: Report

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on August 1, 2009. The length of the article is 1782 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Professional responsibility.(Viewpoint essay)(Reprint)
Author: John G. Helion
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2009
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 80Issue: 6Page: 5(3)

Article Type: Reprint, Viewpoint essay

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 781 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Teacher planning, instruction, and reflection.(Research Works)
Author: Dennis A. Johnson
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 78Issue: 5Page: 11(1)

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on November 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2237 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Incorporating Critical Thinking into a Secondary-School Wellness Unit.(includes bibliography)(Critical Essay)
Author: Ron E. Mcbride
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2000
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 71Issue: 9Page: 20

Article Type: Critical Essay

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New edition with a seemingly endless supply of lessons and teaching tools

With Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 5 to 12, Second Edition, you can

• use mechanically correct progressions to teach students more effectively and increase their enjoyment of physical activity;
• build a complete, balanced physical education program that has something for everybody;
• save preparation time with lesson plans for 484 classes covering 18 areas of fitness, creative movement and dance, and sports;
• take advantage of ready-to-use assessment tools for each developmental level;
• find health fitness standards and sport-related fitness norms for multiple ages and grade levels and both sexes; and
• facilitate lessons with reproducible study sheets, extension projects, and portfolio checklists.

This popular book provides loads of teacher-tested lesson plans and assessment tools that will decrease your preparation time and increase your students' competency. After listening to requests of the first edition's users, the author has packed two more popular field sports and a unique chapter on educational gymnastics into this new edition of Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 5 to 12.

Lessons can cover beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels and break down each skill as it is introduced. The chapters also integrate the applicable rules and strategies during the learning process and use methods that will keep students active, learning, successful, and completely motivated. In addition to the clear instruction for teaching skills, rules, and strategies, each lesson generates opportunities for students to develop physical, cognitive, and social skills. Each unit is designed to help students gain competency appropriate for their experience level.

Formerly published as Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 7 to 12, the book features exciting new material:

• Detailed introductions of skills and how to practice the mechanics of each skill or dance
• Three new chapters (field hockey, lacrosse, and educational gymnastics, the latter of which includes three units that can be used in teaching both gymnastics and creative dance)

Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 5 to 12 provides field-tested lesson plans for 484 classes covering 18 areas of fitness, creative movement and dance, and sports. These professionally prepared plans will not only cut your own prep time but also help you focus on the essentials in each step of your students' learning process. It is a great resource when you need material for a substitute teacher or when you are asked to submit plans to your school administrator.

In addition to the lesson plans, the book and CD-ROM package contains a wealth ofteaching and assessment tools, including skills rubrics, portfolio checklists, unit fact sheets, and quizzes.

The accompanying CD-ROM enables you to print study sheets, student extension projects, portfolio checklists, unit quizzes, and answer keys. You can also print out any page of the text from the CD-ROM (e.g., lessons, full units, tests).

Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 5 to 12 is an ideal resource for physical education teachers and for district directors who want to give their teachers a resource through which they can provide a consistent curriculum across the school system. ... Read more

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This comprehensive collection of teacher-tested unit plans, lesson plans, and teaching and assessment tools will save any secondary school physical education teacher invaluable planning and preparation time. Each lesson plan moves toward written goals from the moment students walk onto the floor until the moment they leave. The lessons integrate physical, cognitive, and social skills in a natural sequence, allowing plenty of opportunity for repetition to help students ingest the material, develop competency, and be rewarded with a sense of control.

The CD-ROM that accompanies the text allows you to pull up lessons on the screen, modify them, and print them for your classes. You can then save them for later use. You can also adjust lessons to reflect your own style, pace lessons to meet your classes’ needs, and select drills that work best for your students. The result: quality lesson plans that meet the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) standards.

Both the book and the CD-ROM contain

• student homework,
• handouts for many of the sports,
• more than 25 performance assessment rubrics,
• quizzes,
• student portfolio checklists, and
• tournament charts.

The performance assessment rubrics provide a way for students, classmates, and teachers to evaluate students’ progress based on degrees of accomplishment and experience level. In fact, Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 7–12 is the only book that contains performance assessment rubrics for secondary students in physical education—and the rubrics are so clear that students can use them to rate each other.

With Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 7–12, you have everything you need to develop, plan, and assess a program. It allows you to spend less time in your office and more time in the gym and on the field doing what you love to do best. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Good choice if you need full units...
If you want full units that are very in-depth, this is a good selection however I find I do not use it as much as I use some other books that are geared toward more separate activities and short games.These lessons are centered around the big sports units, such as volleyball, basketball, soccer, football, etc.If this is what you are looking for this is the right choice...if you'd rather have different activities that work with a variety of sports, go with one of the books by Ken Lumsden instead.

Excellent text for all phys ed teachers.

In assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this text, probably the drawings are the weakest part, the dotted lines of action are at times quite confusing in the badminton & golf section and there seems to be an overabundance of male representation in most of the sports( but equal in the dance area).I would like to have seen a field hockey unit and some creative dance. But these are the only negative comments in 627 pages. WOW!!!!!!!
The strengths of the book are overwhelming. Ms. Kleinman emphasizes important facets that many teachers overlook.
* More action less oral explanation -too many teachers have Kids sitting listening to far too much info and forget they learn by DOING.She provide many examples of how to keep them moving, giving good hints on how to organize large numbers for maximum participation.
* Motivation is important - the example of using popular videos ( White Knights) for dance was excellent as were other suggestions.
* Using MIMETICS as part of the Warm up was a GREAT idea. It is often done immediately prior to a skill introduction but the thought of using it as a warm up was exciting, so much better thanboring Jumping jacks and static stretches.
* The development and progression of skills and strategies were excellent, the integration of skills with mini games is so natural to keep the interest level up. And making adaptations of regular rules to encourage the newly learned skills was clearly highlighted. The division into beg/intermediate/advanced units simply identifies logical progression, too often people teach the same skills year after year.
* Teaching during tournaments is something that many teachers forget. Playing is a learning environment but analysis is essential to embrace an educational setting and Ms. Kleinman offers the teacher areas of focus for games analysis.
* Assessment in schools too often pertains to a statistical evaluation -how many baskets were scored? Whereas this texts provides very specific rubrics that are clearly identified and relate to the process and development of skill including understanding and application of strategy and defense play, something which very few other books have addressed.
* Similarly the provision of a quiz at the end of each unit gives the teacher ideas on how to test cognitive knowledge in practical subjects.
These are all refreshing new additions to texts in the field and this book should be on the desk of every physical education teacher in the country. The addition of a CD ROM which allows teachers to make adjustments to the evaluation and assessment charts, to personalize them for their own classes/students, is an incredible bonus. As is the recognition of modem technology with inclusion of current web sites as extra resources.
Reading through this text made me excited about teaching again and wondering if I had retired too early! Congratulations it is an excellent publication.

If you can only buy one PE resource, this is the one to buy!
Isobel Kleinman has produced the most comprehensive PE lesson plan book I have ever seen.From novice teachers to the veteran professional this book is packed with useful and informative information on the most common PE sports and activities currently required by national, state and district standards.Ms. Kleinman starts each chapter with reproducible handouts to introduce the sport/activity and allow for exploration beyond the basic info.Each LEVEL intro includes Unit Setup, Safety, Timeline, Assessment, and Additional Resources.Each LESSON includes Performance Goals, Cognitive Goals, Warm-Ups, Motivation, Teaching Sequence and Review.Student materials include Portfolio Checklist, Workout Charts, Logs, Performance Assessment Rubrics, and Quizzes.Comprehensive and complete lesson plans (with illustrations/diagrams) cover beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels for an average three-week block of time.The book is divided into a comprehensive Introduction, Fitness, Lifetime Activities, and Team Sports sections.Appendices include Tournament Charts, General Assessment Rubrics and the NY State Physical Fitness Norms.The book comes with a CD ROM.
I have found the information in this book to be up-to-date and tremendously relevant.The book is well laid-out in outline format with headings in large bold type.AN OUTSTANDING RESOURCE FOR ANY TEACHER. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on March 1, 1993. The length of the article is 6933 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The purpose of this study was to describe the planning and interactive thoughts and decisions of less and more experienced preservice teachers (PTs). Twelve PTs, 6 less and 6 more experienced, planned, taught, and reviewed two lessons in lacrosse. While planning, the PTs were instructed to think aloud and verbalize their thoughts. After teaching, the PTs viewed six segments of their videotaped lessons and, following each segment, were presented with a set of questions, given orally. The verbal reports from the think aloud and stimulated recall sessions were audiotaped and transcribed. Descriptive analysis revealed that more experienced PTs made more information requests and decisions while planning than did less experienced PTs. During instruction, all subjects tended to teach from their plan when lessons were perceived to be progressing as planned. When lessons were perceived as not progressing as planned, the more experienced PTs tended to make lesson adjustments whereas the less experienced PTs tended to continue to teach without making any adjustment. These findings are discussed within the context of knowledge representation with implications for professional preparation.

From the supplier: An investigation was conducted to determine the preactive and interactive decision-making tendencies of less and more experienced preservice physical education teachers. The procedure involved monitoring the the teaching strategies of less and more experienced preservice teachers (PTs), as well as their ability to cope with the actual teaching environment. The results showed that more experienced PTs planned in more detail and were able to make adjustments in their teaching plans according to the progress of the class. The less experienced PTs made different types of interactive decisions and focused on different types of student cues when making their decisions.

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Title: Preactive and interactive decision-making tendencies of less and more experienced preservice teachers.
Author: Mark Byra
Publication: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1993
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: v64Issue: n1Page: p46(10)

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Customer Reviews (3)

Text for undergrad course
I have used this text in my undergrad course for the last couple of years.It is written in real language with lots of practical suggestions for elementary and middle school teachers.I wish I had had textbooks like this when I was in college!

Enough to stimulate many good lesson plans
I like this book and will use it with a class on arts methods in education.It divides the arts in four main domains:visual arts, theatre/drama, music, and dance, and each chapter is chock full of ways to use these domains in the K-12 classroom.At the end, they feature three lengthy integrated units that center around a single work or theme, kind of like Leonard Bernstein's arts-based curriculum.One of them is a unit on jazz study, which I thought was a great idea.A few of the explanations are tedious, some statements needed a few citations to hold up, and the anticipation guides could be answered correctly by anyone with a brain, but these are small quibbles.Mainly, it's a good book to get teachers thinking about the wide range of arts-based activities they can promote even without special training.

Good if you know nothing about teaching with the arts
This book is set up as a text book, with anticipatory guides, questions and activities for the reader to do. I was expecting a book with too many ideas, but instead this book is for those that aren't familiar with the arts or how to incorporate them into the classroom. There are better books out there, and this is more of a stroking of the authors' worth than anything else. I was very disappointed with this book.
If you have no clues about what art is or how to use it in your lessons, than this book is for you, but if you have any background using art at all, ignore this book. ... Read more