Product Description
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, 2002. The length of the article is 5910 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.

Citation Details
Title: Teaching balance with Tai Chi strategies for college and secondary school instruction.
Author: David D. Chen
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2002
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 73Issue: 9Page: 31(8)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
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.

Citation Details
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

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
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 October 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1286 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.

Citation Details
Title: Would block scheduling benefit physical education students in secondary schools?
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2000
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 71Issue: 8Page: 10

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Aylesford School - Sports College, Leigh Technology Academy, Chaucer Technology School, Wilmington Enterprise College, Temple School, Hugh Christie Technology College, Hillview School for Girls, the Towers School, the Folkestone Academy, Northfleet Technology College, Pent Valley Technology College, Maplesden Noakes, Wildernesse School, Herne Bay High School, Archbishop's School, the Canterbury High School, Sittingbourne Community College, Sandwich Technology School, Meopham School, Hartsdown Technology College, the Astor of Hever School, Dartford Technology College, Astor College for the Arts, Swanley Technology College. Excerpt:Archbishops School is a mixed-ability Protestant Christian state school situated in Canterbury , Kent in the United Kingdom . It is a school for pupils and students of all abilities from the ages of 11 to 19 and has approximately 850 pupils. The school is situated on a parkland site on the outskirts of Canterbury. Although the school celebrated its 50th anniversary in the 2007-08 academic year, it has only seen three headmasters in that time. The school's pupils are divided into six different houses . These six are Matthew, Mark, Luke, John , Paul and Peter . Websites (URLs online) Coordinates : 51°17 35 N 1°4 27 E / 51.29306°N 1.07417°E / 51.29306; 1.07417 A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Astor College for the Arts is a secondary (comprehensive school ) in Dover , England. The school was awarded specialist status as an Arts College . It is sited next to Dover Grammar School for Boys , with whom it has a close sporting rivalry. Websites (URLs online) Coordinates : 51°7 38 N 1°17 20 E / 51.12722°N 1.28889°E / 51.12722; 1.28889 A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Aylesford School - Sports College Aylesford School Sports College is a s... ... Read more

Product Description
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, 2002. The length of the article is 3884 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.

Citation Details
Title: Water polo a viable addition to a secondary school aquatics unit.
Author: Angela Beale
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2002
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 73Issue: 6Page: 49(6)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
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, 1995. The length of the article is 2997 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: Standard methods of teaching physical education (PE) in secondary schools should be modified to accomodate pedagogical strategies aimed at developing students' critical thinking skills. Basically, remodeled lesson plans should help students justify their decision to become physically fit. They should also help students examine their beliefs about PE, apply new PE information to their lives, develop solutions to health risks and develop an interest in various fitness activities.

Citation Details
Title: Redesigning a secondary school wellness unit using the critical thinking model.(Critical Thinking in Physical Education)(Cover Story)
Author: Karen M. Greenockle
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1995
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: v66Issue: n6Page: p49(4)

Article Type: Cover Story

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
"High Impact" offers high-interest books for the full secondary age range to motivate reluctant readers. Grouped into four language levels (reading ages A 6-7, B 7-8, C 8-9 and D 9-10), they gradually develop students' literacy skills and confidence. ... Read more

Product Description

Meeting the needs of pupils with SEN on the sports field and in the gym or swimming pool can be very challenging for non-specialist teachers-they need help. This book describes strategies which are practical and effective in mainstream settings.

Case studies exmplify good practice in situations involving pupils with a wide range of special needs- from physical difficulties (what does a wheel-chair user do while everyone else plays rugby?) - to communication difficulties and cognitive problems.

Product Description
Today, one in every three high school girls plays sports, and the number of sports offered to these young women has increased dramatically in the past decade. This unique resource explores these sports from a girl's perspective, while examining sports issues as they pertain to young women. Individual chapters cover the most popular sports offered at the high school level, such as basketball, field hockey, and track, and provides practical advice on training and practicing techniques, trying out for the team, and organizing school teams. Other sports possibly less familiar, such as badminton and crew, are also explored, each in a chapter of its own, as are sports like football and baseball which are typically offered only to boys. ... Read more

Product Description

Now you can
- choose from an even greater array of units and lessons,
- provide varied and fun programming for your students,
- assess your students' progress, and
- stay current with national physical education standards.

Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education, Second Edition, provides the most comprehensive menu of lesson plans to spice up your secondary-level physical education curriculum.

The new edition of this already-popular book is packed with more than 500 physical education activities in 200-plus ready-to-use lesson plans. Additional updates include instructional assessment tools for ongoing evaluation in each unit; a CD-ROM with PE-4-Life advocacy materials; a credit-based, individualized study unit; and handouts and worksheets that will help you expand and enrich the physical education experience beyond the classroom.

Other features of the book include

- the same simple–to–difficult lesson progression used in the first edition;
- updated references that include the current national physical education standards;
- a wider variety of lesson plans organized into shorter units to provide you greater flexibility and opportunities for individualized instruction;
- new units including line dancing, disc golf, in-line skating, and lacrosse; and
- activity suggestions and modifications to help you customize lessons to involve learners of different ability levels.

Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education, Second Edition, is a gold mine for physical education teachers. The new units in the book not only reflect the current standards in physical education; but they also help you make physical education fun for students. Use Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education, Second Edition, to provide the highest-quality programming for your students and turn kids on to physical education.

Customer Reviews (1)

Good book for teachers/coaches in the middle school/high school level!
This book gave me a lot of great ideas on areas of athletics I wasn't totally sure of how to teach before! I highly recommend it! ... Read more

Product Description
Presents creative techniques for promoting fitness with lesson plans and special events that can be used by new and experienced teachers. Each programme in the text is designed to be easy to implement, inexpensive to execute and developmentally appropriate. ... Read more

Product Description

Somewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs, and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, remnants of an ideal exist. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high school wrestling.

Customer Reviews (34)

Excellent Insider Look at Wrestling
I already knew the stories of the wrestlers depicted in the book, but only as an outsider.Kreidler's book is such an engaging story about the heart and minds of kids at the highest levels of the sport.You don't have to have wrestled or know anything about wrestling to enjoy it.And if you have wrestled, you will find yourself relating to a lot of the world that he paints... while inspired by those who really excel in that world.

incredible!
This book is amazing! So well written! A must read if you have any interest in college/high school wrestling.

Book for my son
My son had me order this book for a school assignment. He loves it!Good choice!!I can't really write a review for this book as I do not know anything about it. But, my 16 year old son is really into wrestling and he said it's a great book.

Captures the Spirit
This was an excellent glimpse at high school wrestling in Iowa. It really captured the grit and determination it takes to participate in the sport, as well as be a supporting family member during the long wrestling season.

In a world where lies and corruption rule the day this book gives us hope that hard work and dedication
In a world where corruption on the national political scene seems to be not only common but accepted as justified and not that big a deal, it's refreshing to see that some out there are still bound by a higher set of standards.In fact, if one were to look at the two men highlighted in this book and contrast them to the most recent 2008 Presidential hopefuls they would seem more capable of guiding us thru the trouble ahead.Rather than relying on empty words these two young men face down all obstacles with hard work, an iron will, forged discipline, and an inner confidence that is built on trial by fire.

This book can show us all what true greatness is versus the current standard of greatness which can only be said is premised upon giving a great speech.Four Days To Glory could be a roadmap to finding our next set of real American leadership and hope. ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (10)

THE ASSIST
The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives

I BOUGHT THIS BOOK BECAUSE JACK O'BRIEN WAS MY SON'S COACH IN SALEM. MA; BY THE 1980'S. HE IS THE BEST AND MOST CARING TEACHER I HAVE EVER MET IN MY LIFE. HE USED TO WRITE LETTERS TO ME,(I WAS IN PR BY THAT TIME) TO LET ME KNOW ABOUT MY KIDS IMPROVEMENT EVERY SINGLE WEEK. HE REALLY CARED FOR THEM AS A FATHER DOES FOR HIS OWN. I HAVEN'T SEEING MR.O'BRIEN FOR MANY YEARS, BUT THIS BOOK'S AUTHOR MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO KNOW ABOUT ALL THE GREAT THINGS HE KEPT DOING FOR BOSTON'S KIDS AFTER MY KIDS LEFT THE STATE.I AM REALLY VERY GREATFUL TO THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK AND TO AMAZON.COM FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO KNOW ABOUT THE ACTUAL WHEREABOUTS OF MR O'BRIEN.

I REALLY ENJOYED READING THE BOOK VERY MUCH. I AM ONE OF THOSE GREATFUL PARENTS, AND THE LEIBOWITZ KIDS ARE TODAY WHAT GOD HELPED THEM TO BE, BECAUSE MR O'BRIEN WAS THERE WHEN THEY NEEDED HIM THE MOST. I HEARTFULLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK, AND WISH EVERY TEACHER, NOT ONLY EVERY COACH, COULD BUY AND READ THIS BOOK AND FOLLOW COACH O'BRIEN'S EXAMPLE. WHEN I CAME TO MA. TO VISIT MY CHILDREN, HE PICKED ME UP AT THE AIRPORT, TOOK ME TO SEE MY KIDS, AND HELPING THEM OUT AS HE USUALLY DID. HE IS ONE OF A KIND.

a good book
A brutally honest look at the world of an inner city high school through the eyes of the basketball team. From the dysfunctional shool system, lack of parental role models, and the impact of the overworked legal system. it is all here. This is an enlightening look at the sacrifice and dedication of a high school coach and the overwhelming odds he must face. I have read many high school basketball books, and this ranks right up there. Great job by first time author Neil Swidey.

A Really Great Book--Not a Basketball Book
If you look at the cover of this book you would think this is a book about basketball, but you would be wrong.Actually, the parts about basketball get in th way of the real story about people lives.Jack O'Brien is the head coach of Charlestown High School, but this book is so much more than just his story.His players and the principal of the school have fascinating stories too.I found this book very hard to put down.For his first book, Neil Swidey did an outstanding job!I loved this book!

More Than a Game
Neil Swidey's THE ASSIST chronicles three years in the life of coach Jack O'Brien and the players of Charlestown HS in Boston. O'Brien is a minature high school version of a young Bobby Knight--obsessive, compulsive, and brilliant. It is his way or no way. And the results, at least the wins, are a staggering five state championships. But like the "rabbit hunter" that Knight has always been, so O'Brien never knows when to let something drop. His greatest strength is also his greatest weakness. Swidey did his job as a writer when you realize that half the time you loathe this coach and the other half of the time you respect him.

But, as many have said, this is more about life in the inner city than about basketball. The young men who are his players are so overwhelmed with the disfunctional nature of their family lives combined with the violence of the streets that O'Brien's controlled environment becomes something of a safe haven. This is their way out. But even when they make it out, they struggle because they have become accustomed to his constant oversight.

The book ends with the bizarre situation of O'Brien stepping down as the coach and then wanting his job back. It that sense the book ends in an unsatisfactory manner. But, in another sense, it's the perfect ending in that there are no easy solutions at Charlestown.

Local Topic that encapsulates regional and national issues
Swidey, a truly embedded journalist, follows the daily lives of a Charlestown, Mass. basketball team - with particular attention dedicated to their coach - Mr. O'Brien.The book, as noted by others, is much more than another story about basketball.In the background, his book provides atmospherics on the racial tensions that have impacted Mass. for the last several decades.At the forefroent, this non-fictional account reveals the inter-workings of a small community.In Charlestown, elements of academic bureaucracies interact with high school athletics, and these bed partners marry, or sometimes divorce, with community norms and regional policies and protocols.Swidey reveals that one man, Coach O'Brien, has dedicated his life to understanding the aforementioned societal system and makes it work to the advantage of his under-appreciated and largely African American basketball squad.Coach O'Brien, an Irish Catholic, is no ordinary coach or man.His passion for Charlestown's basketball players extends well beyond the basketball court - and deeply penetrates his players' personal, professional and academic lives.Swidey also explains the life stories of several basketball players, but pays particular attention to "Hood" and Ridley, the co-captains of the Charlestown basketball team.They come of age under the tutelage of Coach O'Brien and illustrate both the best and worst of their community.O'brien, however, transcends his community and leads his team through personal, academic, and basketball trials and tribulations.His struggles are eloquently captured by Swidey and used in a fashion that highlight and expose nuances and complexities in our society that we, as Americans, are yet to fully understand.The ending of this work it not necessarily happy or sad, but very realistic and relevant to our lives in the 2000's.The topical order of the book, however, left some room for improvement.The narrative jumped from one Swidey character to the next and slowed down the story at some points in the work.Other than this minor distraction, the work provided an insightful and raw account of the American landscape in New England. ... Read more