Intermediate Senior Health & Physical Education

Presented here are practical strategies for preparing elementary-, middle- and secondary-school teachers to teach health. The book provides a comprehensive curriculum guide - a sequential K-12 plan for teaching students the information and skills they need to become health literature, and to maintain and improve their health.

Health Education Ideas and Activities provides fresh, cost-effective, and multifaceted ways to teach health education at the middle and high school levels. Grounded in the real world and tested in classrooms, each lesson idea and teaching tool is ready to use with minimal preparation time. Health Education Ideas and Activities includes 24 units and 139 lesson ideas spanning a variety of health and wellness topics such as resiliency, self-awareness, conflict resolution, self-esteem, yoga, and alternative healing. You can use these materials to tailor your existing units and lessons to the changing needs of your students. You also can use the materials to reinforce or expand your existing physical education curriculum to drive home the importance of health. You'll be able to develop the health literacy of students in any class setting while meeting revised 2006 national standards for health education. This resource is classroom developed and tested by a physical and health educator with more than 30 years of experience teaching at the middle and high school levels. Roger Puza understands that kids growing up in today's world face more health challenges than ever. The lesson ideas and activities in this book reach into their world and take hold, laying the groundwork for tomorrow's healthy, active adults. Health Education Ideas and Activities contains these time-saving features: -Specific, ready-to-use assessments for easily building accountability into your teaching -Over 200 handouts and 20 tests -A handy CD-ROM containing all the reproducibles for quick access -A lesson idea finder for quickly locating the content you need Health Education Ideas and Activities provides new and experienced educators with organized information on all dimensions of health--intellectual, physical, spiritual, emotional, and social. The book's comprehensive and multifaceted approach guarantees this will be one resource you'll go to time and again.

This book focuses on the requirements of student PE teachers in relation to teaching skills and issues covered in PGCE and initial teacher education courses. The new edition of this popular textbook draws together background information about teaching and about PE, basic teaching skills specifically related to physical education and broader knowledge and understanding of issues in the wider context of PE. The book is organized so that each chapter contains text and underpinning theory interspersed with activities that student teachers are asked to undertake either alone, with another student teacher, or with a tutor. This is not a book of teaching tips but promotes critical thinking and reflection to enable student PE teachers to develop into reflective practitioners. Learning to Teach Physical Education in the Secondary Schoolis an essential resource for any student teacher undertaking PGCE or school-based initial teacher education to become a teacher of PE in secondary schools.

This comprehensive health-related fitness education program is back and better than ever! Developed by top-level physical educators, this third edition will help students gain the knowledge, skills, appreciation, and confidence they need to lead active, healthy lives, regardless of physical and mental abilities or disabilities. Physical Best Activity Guide: Middle and High School Levels has been used with much success across the United States, and for good reason: The text contains 70 easy-to-use instructional activities, ranging from noncompetitive to competitive and from less demanding to more demanding. It also includes activities that allow for maximum time on task. All the instructional activities address the national physical education standards, dance standards, or health standards. This new edition retains the best activities from previous editions and offers new ones from outstanding teachers throughout the United States. You will learn how to adapt the activities for all students, regardless of skill level or disability, and students will learn how to set realistic goals, manage their activity levels, and remain healthy throughout their lives. In addition, this text offers the following features: * A "Combined-Component Training" chapter combines aerobic fitness, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility into single activities. * A CD-ROM contains a wealth of reproducibles, including charts, posters, signs, station cards, handouts, and worksheets, many of which can be adapted to meet your needs. * A section of Internet resources helps you develop your own special events. Physical Best Activity Guide: Middle and High School Levels, developed by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, can stand alone or be used in conjunction with Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness: The PhysicalBest Teacher's Guide, Third Edition, and Physical Best Activity Guide: Elementary Level, Third Edition. It can also be used with Fitnessgram®/Activitygram®, an activity assessment and computerized reporting system, and the Fitness forLife resources for middle school and high school. Fitness for Life is a comprehensive program promoting lifetime health-related fitness.

This book provides a range of practical activities designed to support physical education teachers' learning. The activities include case studies, examples of pupils' work, examples of existing good practice, and a range of tried-and-tested teaching strategies. The book also includes helpful photocopiable resources and training materials. Activities in each chapter provide a toolkit to help student physical education teachers to analyse their learning and performance.This book extends the popular Learning to Teach PE in the Secondary School textbook.

1. Sexual health and Canadian youth: how are we doing? -- 2. Why do we need sexual health education in the schools? -- 3. Do parents want sexual health education taught in the schools? -- 4. Do young people want sexual health education taught in the schools? -- 5. What values are taught in school-based sexual health education? -- 6. Does providing youth with sexual health education lead to earlier or more frequent sexual activity? -- 7. Is there clear evidence that sexual health education can effectively help youth reduce their risk of unintended pregnancy and STI/HIV infection? -- 8. Are "abstinence-only" programs an appropriate form of school-based sexual health education? -- 9. What are the key ingredients of behaviourally effective sexual health education programs? -- 10. What is the impact of making condoms easily available to teenagers? -- 11. Are condoms effective in preventing hIV and other STIs? -- 12. Should school-based sexual health education address the issue of sexual diversity? -- 13. Should school-based sexual health education address the issue of emergency contraception? -- 14. How should school-based sexual health education address the issue of new laws on the age of consent? -- 15. What are the social and economic benefits to society of implementing broadly based sexual health education in the schools? -- 16. How can Health Canada’s Canadian guidelines for sexual health education contribute to the initiation and maintenance of high quality sexual health education programming in the schools?

"This text prompts readers to examine pedagogical practices and assumptions that work to exclude and marginalize students with intersecting and diverse identities from full participation in physical and health education. The contributors, both experienced and emerging scholars writing in the area of social justice, cover a variety of issues--including (dis)ability, gender, sexuality, race, social class, and religion--with the goal of enabling teachers to engage in critical reflection. This edited collection includes chapters that have been approached from a range of social justice perspectives and interpretations that will push readers to reflect on the assumptions that underlie their current practices and to employ teaching methods that are more inclusive."--Provided by publisher.