Teaching Children Movement Concepts and Skills: Becoming a Master Teacher

Series Preface. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 1 - Developmentally Appropriate Movement Concepts and Skills: Why Is It Important to Teach Children Movement Concepts and Skills?, Purposes of Elementary Physical Education, The Physically Educated Child, Debunking False Assumptions About Physical Education, Learning the Movement Alphabet, Rationale for the Movement Alphabet, Youth Sports and Stage III Activities, Summary Tailoring Movement Concepts and Skills to Fit Your Teaching Situation, Class Size, Equipment, Facilities, Class Frequency and Length, Accommodating Individual Differences, Community Needs Planning, Teacher Beliefs Summary Incorporating Movement Concepts and Skills Into Your Programme, Traditional Physical Education, Curriculum Validity, Developmental Physical Education, The Movement Alphabet Revisited, Body Awareness, Space Awareness, Effort Concepts, Relationship Concepts, Locomotor Patterns, Manipulative Patterns, Summary Principles for Teaching Movement Concepts and Skills, Principles for Teaching the Movement Alphabet, Teaching Movement Concepts, Teaching Motor Skills, Summary Assessing Children's Progress in Movement Concepts and Skills, Why Teachers Often Overlook Assessment, Rationale for Assessment, Psychomotor Assessment, Cognitive Assessment, Affective Assessment, Summary . Part II - Teaching Developmentally Appropriate Learning Experiences in Movement Concepts and Skills : Learning Experiences for Body and Space Awareness, Anatomy, Trails and Roads, Movement Shapes,Staying at Home, Painting Movement Pictures, Twisting, Spinning, and Throwing, Directional Gymnastics Learning Experiences for Effort and Relationship Concepts, Turtles and Rabbits, Hoops and Me, Only the Strong and Light Survive, Moving Scarves, Sentence Scrabble Learning Experiences for Locomotor and Nonlocomotor Patterns, Knees and Ropes, Sports Skipping, Leap for Life, Name That Movement, Dodge and Freeze Tag Learning Experiences for Manipulative Patterns, Egg Catching, Carnival Throwing, Spring Training, Dribble Tag, Step and Swing, Kicking Review, So Where Do We Go From Here? References. Suggested Readings.