Full Description
A Practical Guide to Teaching Physical Education in the Secondary School is written for all student teachers on university and school-based initial teacher education courses. It offers a wealth of tried and tested strategies together with practical activities and materials to support both your teaching and your pupils' learning. It is designed for you to dip in and out of, to enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching or foci on your course.This second edition is fully updated with the most recent research and developments in the field and includes brand new chapters. Key topics covered include:Understanding your own views about your subjectNEWLesson planning and schemes of workPhysical Education and Key SkillsUsing ICT Cross-curricular teaching and learningNEWSafe practice, risk assessment and risk managementApplying theories of learning to your practiceHelping pupils meet intended learning outcomesNEWPromoting positive behaviourNEWOvercoming barriers and maximising the achievement of all pupilsNEWAssessing learningWorking with othersReflective practice and action research.Photocopiable resources offer easy assistance in lesson observation, planning, preparation, delivery and evaluation. An annotated further reading section at the end of each chapter provides advice about selection of the best resources on the web and elsewhere. Illustrated throughout with examples of existing good practice, this highly practical resource offers valuable support and inspiration to all student teachers as well as those in the early years of their teaching career.A Practical Guide to Teaching Physical Education in the Secondary School, 2nd edition is a companion to Learning to Teach Physical Education in the Secondary School, 3rd edition and can be used to reinforce the basic teaching skills covered in that core textbook. The book can also be used equally successfully on its own.
Contents
SECTION 1How aims influence teaching 3. Knowing your own views about the subject 4. Developing your curriculum SECTION 2: Planning for pupil learning 5. Long term planning - schemes of work 6. Medium and short term planning - units of work and lesson plans 7. Planning for pupils learning in broader dimensions of the curriculum 1 - citizenship, social, moral, spiritual, cultural and personal development 8. Planning for pupils learning broader dimensions of the curriculum 2 - key skills 9. The use of information and communications technology in PE 10. Planning for the contribution of physical education to cross-curricular activity 11. Safe practice, risk assessment and risk management SECTION 3: Teaching for pupil learning 12. Applying theories of learning to your practice 13. Knowing your learners 14. Creating an effective learning environment 15. Teaching to enable pupils to meet the intended learning outcomes 16. Teaching for promoting positive behaviour 17. Overcoming barriers and maximising the achievement of all pupils18. Assessing pupils learning 19. Working with others in supporting pupils learning SECTION 4: Your own professional learning 20. Working as a reflective practitioner 21. Undertaking action research
