Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers: An Integrated Approach / Edition 1

by Retta R. Evans, Sandra K. Sims

Overview

In elementary schools across the United States, teachers are often tasked with teaching health education or physical education, although they may not have specialist training. Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers: An Integrated Approach is the perfect resource for these educators. It covers both health and physical education while giving current and preservice teachers the skills to deliver appropriate lessons to their young students.

Retta Evans and Sandra Sims, respected educators and physical education advocates, provide everything teachers need in order to seamlessly incorporate health education and physical education into an integrated curriculum. Based on national health education, physical education, and state-specific academic standards including the Common Core state standards, this is a guide that will help teachers empower elementary students to become healthy and active.

The text is complemented with a full suite of ancillary products:

• Sample syllabus and course outline

• Chapter resources, including an overview, outline, review questions with answers, and learning activities

• Chapter questions to help in creating quick assessments of student learning or in building custom tests

• Approximately 150 slides to reinforce key points

The text also features lab exercises that allow students to practice the material they are learning, including designing their own standards-based lesson plans that integrate health and physical education. By learning the essential knowledge and using the invaluable strategies in this book, every teacher will be equipped to create a healthy and active school environment that maximizes student achievement.

Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers is organized into two parts, each dedicated to different components of incorporating health and physical education into the elementary classroom.

Part I focuses on the foundational knowledge needed for teaching health and physical education. It addresses the health risk behaviors of today’s generation of students, a team approach to coordinated school health, how physical growth and brain development in children are related to health, and the many characteristics and benefits of a high-quality physical education program.

Part II emphasizes the strategies necessary for incorporating health, physical education, and physical activity into the curriculum and school day. It discusses how teachers can become advocates of healthy and active schools, identify habits that promote everyday health in the classroom, and incorporate physical activity and the national standards into each school day. It also presents teaching methods, assessment tools, and evaluation strategies to ensure teaching success.

Throughout this book, practicing and training teachers will find websites, tips for best practices, sample lesson plans, and tables with innovative strategies. The result is a great resource that teachers can use to fulfill what is both a tremendous responsibility and a unique opportunity—promoting health and wellness in the elementary classroom using an integrated approach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781450459914
Publisher:	Human Kinetics Publishers
Publication date:	03/11/2016
Series:	SHAPE America set the Standard
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Retta R. Evans, PhD, is associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a master certified health education specialist. Dr. Evans has spent more than sixteen yearsteaching and mentoring aspiring health educators at the undergraduate and graduate levels. During this time she has also worked to improve health curricula and develop health initiatives in schools. With the Alabama State Department of Education, she has revised the state course of study in health education and is part of a team that worked with school systems to implement comprehensive physical activity plans across Alabama. Dr. Evans received the Health Educator of the Year Award from the Alabama State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance as well as the College/University Health Education Professional of the Year Award from the Southern District Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Dr. Evans was principal investigator on a National Institute of Health grant investigating the effective of classroom-based physical activity on cognitive performance in elementary-aged children.

Sandra K. Sims, PhD, associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has more than two decades of experience as a public school teacher. Since 2005 she has taught physical education methods courses as well as the course for elementary classroom teachers integrating physical education and health education into the classroom. Besides being named Physical Education Teacher of the Year for Alabama and Southern District SHAPE America for two years, Sims was selected as Teacher of the Year for her school, system, state, and district.

Table of Contents

Part I Role of Health and Physical Education in the Classroom

Chapter 1. Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds

Defining Health in the 21st Century

History of Health in Culture

History of Health in the United States

Health Today in the United States

Individual Behaviors and Health

Responsibility of Classroom Teachers

Summary

Chapter 2. Coordinated School Health: A Team Approach

National School Policies Focusing on Nutrition and Physical Activity

Need for Collaboration Between Education and Health

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model

Applying the WSCC Model

Best Practices

Role of Teachers

Summary

Chapter 3. Health Education

Growth and Development

Improving Health Behavior

Learning Styles

Comprehensive School Health Education

Summary

Chapter 4. Physical Education

Defining Physical Activity

Defining Physical Education

Standard 1

Standard 2

Standard 3

Standard 4

Standard 5

Summary

Part II How to Integrate Health and Physical Education Into the Classroom

Chapter 5. Advocating for a Healthy, Active School

Advocacy in the Classroom

Advocacy in the School

Advocacy Ideas for Parents and the Community

Advocacy Tips for Using a Media Source

Advocacy Tips for Policymakers and Administrators

Summary

Chapter 6. Creating a Healthy Classroom

Classroom Health for Every Day

Classroom Health Throughout the Year

Dimensions of a Healthy Classroom

Back-to-School Supply List

Unhealthy Teaching Practices

Summary

Chapter 7. Creating an Active Classroom

Activity Breaks and Brain Breaks

Integrating Movement Into Academic Lessons

Equipment Needs for an Active Classroom

Class Management and Organization

Inappropriate Practices

Safety

Class Behavior Management

Summary

Labs

Chapter 8. Integrating Health Education Into the Classroom

National Standards for Academic Performance

National Health Education Standards (NHES)

Brainstorm Integration Ideas

Link Health Education Standards With Academic Standards

Develop Grade-Specific Interdisciplinary Activities

Develop an Integrated Activity Plan

Summary

Labs

Chapter 9. Integrating Physical Education Into the Classroom

National Standards for Academic Performance

National Standards for K-12 Physical Education

Brainstorm Integration Ideas

Link Physical Education Standards With Academic Standards

Develop Grade-Specific Interdisciplinary Activities

Develop an Integrated Activity Plan

Summary

Labs

Chapter 10 Best Practices in the Classroom and Beyond

Planning Ahead

Teaching Methods That Work

Assessment of Learning

Learning Environment

Professional Development

Supporting Policies That Encourage Wellness

Summary

Interviews

Text for undergraduate methods courses on teaching physical education and health education. Reference for elementary classroom teachers.