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Interdisciplinary Teaching Through Physical Education includes 20 complete, ready-to-use learning experiences and more than 150 further and added ideas for fabricating learning experiences that integrate physical education with mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, and the arts.
Filled with theory and practical applications, the book makes learning more meaningful, fun, and rewarding for students by bridging the gap amongst physical education and other subjects. Teachers need to take vantage of prospects to establish relationships amongst subject areas, and this book provides everything you need to engage students in active learning all over the elementary school curriculum.
Part I presents the fundamental principle of interdisciplinary programs. It identifies three interdisciplinary instructing models-connected, shared, and partnership-that you may use as guides for organizing your content, collaborating with others, and creating significant actions that affect student learning. You’ll also find schemes for implementation, including ideas for getting started, selecting a instructing model, devising lesson plans, assessing interdisciplinary learning using substitute strategies, and building a support network.
Part II explains how to comprise physical education with five subject areas. For each subject area, you’ll find a K-6 scope and sequence as well as elaborate descriptions of four finish learning experiences. Teachers may use them precisely as they’re staged or change them to meet the distinguishable needs of their students. Each learning experience provides the following information:
- Suggested grade level
- Interdisciplinary instructing model used
- Objectives
- Equipment needed
- Organization (individual, partner, little group, huge group)
- Lesson description
- Assessment suggestions
- Key points to keep in mind when observing students’ progress
- Ideas for altering the lesson
- Suggestions for teachable moments
You’ll likewise find more than 150 ideas that you may use as starting points for formulating your own learning experiences and a listing of valuable references for interdisciplinary teaching.
About the Author
Theresa Purcell Cone has been a physical education and dance teacher at Brunswick Acres Elementary School in Kendall Park, New Jersey, since 1976. She is also a teacher and choreographer at the Princeton Ballet School. A past president of the National Dance Association (NDA), Theresa likewise authored Teaching Children Dance (Human Kinetics, 1994). She has received numerous awards, including the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Honor Award (1992); NDA’s Presidential Citation (1996 and 1997); NDA’s National Dance Educator of the Year (1989); and the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from Temple University (1995). Theresa earned her master’s degree in dance education from Temple.
Peter Werner is a professor in the Department of Physical Education at the University of South Carolina. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience with classroom teachers and physical education teachers on the topic of interdisciplinary learning. He also has written galore articles, made assorted demonstrations at national conferences, written three books, and conducted inservice workshops on the topics of interdisciplinary learning and academic integration. The author of Teaching Children Gymnastics (Human Kinetics, 1994), Peter earned his PED from Indiana University. In 1996 he received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse, from which he received his bachelor’s degree.
Stephen L. Cone is an associate professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Rowan University in New Jersey. He has written dozens of articles for physical education publications, and he contributed a chapter on assessment to his wife Theresa’s book, Teaching Children Dance. An American Council on Education Fellow in 1993-94, Stephen has kept a good deal of leadership positions in HPERD organizations. He received a Presidential Citation from the National Dance Association in 1995 and the Honor Award from the Eastern District Association of AAHPERD in 1994. He earned his doctorate in motor learning and sports psychology from Texas A&M University.
Amelia Mays Woods is an associate professor of physical education at Indiana State University. She instructs elementary instructing majors on how to instruct physical education, focusing on how to incorporate motion with other subjects taught in the classroom. Amelia has written galore articles on elementary and middle school physical education and has staged at state and national physical education conferences. A fellow member of AAHPERD since 1988, she earned her doctoral degree in instruction and curriculum in physical education from the University of South Carolina.
