Learning to Teach Health and Physical Education (Custom Edition), 1st edition

Published by Pearson Learning Solutions (2 June 2014) © 2014

  • Kathryn Meldrum James Cook University
  • Jacqui Peters Deakin University

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ISBN-13: 9781486023103
Learning to Teach Health and Physical Education (Custom Edition)
Published 2014

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Title overview

Learning to Teach Health and Physical Education is an Australian text, about the 'how to' of teaching HPE. As a practical text, the book endeavours to equip readers with the skills and knowledge to work with a variety of curricula, contexts and students.

Students are encouraged to use this book as a springboard for rich and colourful discussions and activities that explore the broad possibilities that exist for teaching and learning in HPE into the future.

Table of contents

  • Part 1: The Student
  • 1. Youth in the current context
  • 2. Young people’s growth and development
  • 3. Moving and learning through physical education
  • 4. Ability and inclusion
  • Part 2: The Teacher
  • 5. Developing as a teacher of health and physical education
  • 6. The health and physical education learning environment
  • 7. Developing personal and social responsibility through physical education
  • Part 3: The Curriculum
  • 8. Working with curriculum documents
  • 9.  Program planning in health
  • 10. Program planning in physical education
  • 11. Assessment in health and physical education
  • 12. Approaches to teaching physical education

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