EFFECTIVE PHYSICAL EDUCATION CONTENT AND INSTRUCTION. AN EVIDENCE-BASED AND TEACHER-TESTED APPROACH

• Part I: Preparing for Successful Teaching
Chapter 1: Understanding and Acquiring Content Knowledge
Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Content for Teaching
Chapter 3: Organizing Content for Teaching
• Part II: Teaching Fundamental Skills
Chapter 4: Early Elementary Locomotion
Chapter 5: Elementary Gymnastics
• Part III: Teaching Sport Skills
Chapter 6: Soccer
Chapter 7: Flag Football
Chapter 8: Basketball
Chapter 9: Volleyball
Chapter 10: Badminton
Chapter 11: Tennis
Chapter 12: Softball

As a physical educator (or student preparing to become one), you need to know more than the skills, techniques, and tactics of the sports and activities you teach. You need to understand, among other things, how to create task progressions, how to organize and adapt those tasks, and how to detect and correct student errors. Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction will help you learn how to do just that.

Theoretical Framework and Evidence-Based Plans
This text provides a theoretical framework to work from and gives you ready-to-use, teacher-tested content that is evidence based. Sample block plans are designed to help students of differing ability levels engage in skillful play. You'll be able to draw from teaching progressions that are game-like, developmental, and sequential in nature.
Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction offers the following:
• Sequential units with block plans
• Ready-to-use instructional tasks and warm-ups
• Teaching cues
• Explanations of common errors, their causes, and how to correct them
• Content maps for each unit
• A web resource that houses enlarged versions of the content maps, along with sample student awards and fair play guidelines
The content maps provide a roadmap for success in the attainment of goals and outcomes. The cues in the text, which assist in the detection and correction of student errors, act as an additional aid to help students achieve success.

Content Proven to Be Highly Effective
The approach and content in Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction have been proven to increase student learning as compared to other approaches. In fact, in one of the largest-ever intervention studies on teaching effectiveness in physical education, teachers who were taught to use this approach and content significantly improved the quality of their teaching and produced some of the highest learning gains for students reported in the physical education literature.