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New Standards-Based Resources for Health and Physical Educators

 

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Organization and Administration of Physical Education - 2nd Edition

The revised SHAPE America National Physical Education Standards are defining physical education (PE) programs, providing the framework for students’ physical literacy journeys. Organization and Administration of Physical Education: Theory and Practice, Second Edition With HKPropel Access, incorporates the revised standards, making it the text administrators need to learn how the standards affect curriculum development and implementation of a successful PE program.

This edition is thoroughly updated by two award-winning educators, Jayne Greenberg and Judy LoBianco, who are joined by a sterling list of contributors who have taught at every education level in urban, suburban, and rural settings.

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education - 3rd Edition

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education has become the benchmark instructional textbook on developing successful health education programs. Now in a third edition that incorporates the 2024 SHAPE America National Health Education Standards and performance indicators, it sets the foundation for employing a skills-based approach that will teach students to become health literate, develop self-efficacy, and lead health-promoting lifestyles so that they can thrive at school and throughout life.

Cultural Equity in Physical Education

Through a series of nine case studies, Cultural Equity in Physical Education offers deep insights into the issues that American Indian, Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latino/Latina/Latine, and multiracial students face. A crucial resource for in-service and future PE teachers, the book aims to amplify critical issues that negatively affect these groups, address racist practices, and provide culturally aware teaching strategies affirming the worth of racialized students. The end goal is to elevate the perspectives of both students and teachers and to normalize positive experiences for all students in physical education.

National Physical Education Standards - 4th Edition

National Physical Education Standards, Fourth Edition, is the go-to book for all physical education teachers, providing the framework for creating curricula, designing lesson plans, and developing assessments. Created by SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators, the leading advocate for health and physical education, this text unveils the revised standards and new Grade-Span Learning Indicators, offers practical guidelines for implementation, and advances the idea that physical education means equity, access, and inclusion for all.

National Health Education Standards - 3rd Edition

National Health Education Standards, Third Edition, empowers preK-12 health educators to develop high-quality health education programs that improve outcomes for students, providing them with skills for lifelong health and well-being. Created by SHAPE America–Society of Health and Physical Educators, the leading advocate for health and physical education, this text unveils the revised standards and performance indicators, offers guidelines for implementation and assessment, and advances the idea that health education means equity, access, and inclusion for all.

Intersectionality in Health Education

The concept of intersectionality considers the interconnected nature or overlap of multiple categorizations such as race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic class, and physical ability. For Black students already experiencing inequalities, being “Black and . . .” (female, queer, or another marginalized identity) can lead to encounters that further devalue their identities or leave them feeling unseen.

Intersectionality in Health Education seeks to prompt meaningful reflection on the current status of health education and to ultimately result in more equitable practices for all students. It will help health educators identify their implicit biases, examine how intersectionality is affecting Black students, and build classrooms where all students are seen and valued.

Through a collection of 10 case studies, Intersectionality in Health Education will help preservice and in-service teachers adopt teaching practices that create a supportive, empathetic, and nurturing environment. In doing so, they can help validate “Black and . . .” students’ self-worth and swing the pendulum toward a more equitable experience in health education for all students.

Qualitative Research and Evaluation in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

Focusing on the unique nature of qualitative methods within kinesiology settings, Qualitative Research and Evaluation in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy guides graduate students and early career researchers through designing, conducting, and reporting of qualitative research studies with specific references to the challenges and possibilities of the field.

Written by qualitative researchers in the fields of physical education and activity, this practical text begins with an overview of qualitative methods before advancing into planning for, collecting, and analyzing qualitative data. The final sections highlight specific qualitative methods applications in physical education and activity before discussing future directions and emerging applications of qualitative research.




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National Health Education Standards - 3rd Edition (E-Book)

National Health Education Standards, Third Edition, empowers preK-12 health educators to develop high-quality health education programs that improve outcomes for students, providing them with skills for lifelong health and well-being. Created by SHAPE America–Society of Health and Physical Educators, the leading advocate for health and physical education, this text unveils the revised standards and performance indicators, offers guidelines for implementation and assessment, and advances the idea that health education means equity, access, and inclusion for all.

 
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Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Health Education Book Cover

Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Health Education

This text provides instructors with the tools they need to successfully incorporate social and emotional learning into their classrooms. It aligns social and emotional learning to standards-based health education, providing a clear rationale for pairing the two when planning your curriculum. This valuable text trains health educators to connect the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies to the National Health Education Standards (NHES), then design assessment and instruction.

Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education

Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education

This is the ideal resource for understanding and integrating social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies into the structure of a physical education program, alongside physical activity and skill development goals. This text should be incorporated as a key resource to guide physical education teacher education courses specifically focused on social and emotional learning while also providing supplemental readings for courses related to physical education curriculum, instruction, assessment, and/or models-based practice.

The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education Book Cover

The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education

The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education, Second Edition, offers future K-12 physical educators an accessible and effective approach to delivering vital content to students. The book takes a standards-based approach that is fully integrated with SHAPE America assessments, and its teaching for learning approach to curriculum development takes the guesswork out of translating the text’s information into action.

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education Book Cover

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education, Second Edition

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education, Second Edition, presents a skills-based approach to teaching K-12 health education that prepares students for success in the 21st century. It provides educators all they need to build, teach, and assess a health education program that will help their students become health literate, develop self-efficacy, and gain the 21st-century skills they need to maintain or improve health and well-being.

Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Health Education

This text provides instructors with the tools they need to successfully incorporate social and emotional learning into their classrooms. It aligns social and emotional learning to standards-based health education, providing a clear rationale for pairing the two when planning your curriculum. This valuable text trains health educators to connect the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies to the National Health Education Standards (NHES), then design assessment and instruction.

Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education

This is the ideal resource for understanding and integrating social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies into the structure of a physical education program, alongside physical activity and skill development goals. This text should be incorporated as a key resource to guide physical education teacher education courses specifically focused on social and emotional learning while also providing supplemental readings for courses related to physical education curriculum, instruction, assessment, and/or models-based practice.

The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education

The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education, Second Edition, offers future K-12 physical educators an accessible and effective approach to delivering vital content to students. The book takes a standards-based approach that is fully integrated with SHAPE America assessments, and its teaching for learning approach to curriculum development takes the guesswork out of translating the text’s information into action.

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education, Second Edition

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education, Second Edition, presents a skills-based approach to teaching K-12 health education that prepares students for success in the 21st century. It provides educators all they need to build, teach, and assess a health education program that will help their students become health literate, develop self-efficacy, and gain the 21st-century skills they need to maintain or improve health and well-being.

 
PE Metrics Third Edition

PE Metrics, 3rd Edition

This book aligns with SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education, and as a result is a text that you can use with confidence as you help develop physical literacy in your students.

Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment 2nd Edition

Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment 2nd Edition

Variables in assessment instruments and in the administration and interpretation of tests can sometimes generate more questions than answers. That’s why special education and adapted physical activity teachers have come to rely on Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment. Now in its second edition, this is the one of the only textbooks that focuses solely on assessment, providing valuable and in-depth clarity, guidance, and understanding in the principles and practical applications of assessment.

Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction With Web Resource

Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction With Web Resource

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.

PE Metrics, 3rd Edition

This book aligns with SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education, and as a result is a text that you can use with confidence as you help develop physical literacy in your students.

Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment 2nd Edition

Variables in assessment instruments and in the administration and interpretation of tests can sometimes generate more questions than answers. That’s why special education and adapted physical activity teachers have come to rely on Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment. Now in its second edition, this is the one of the only textbooks that focuses solely on assessment, providing valuable and in-depth clarity, guidance, and understanding in the principles and practical applications of assessment.

Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction With Web Resource

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.

 
Featured Products
Moving With Words and Actions

Moving With Words and Actions

Moving With Words & Actions will help you introduce the skills and knowledge that builds the physical literacy children will need to succeed in physical education classes in subsequent grades. This dynamic new resource offers more than 70 lesson plans, all of which are aligned with SHAPE America’s National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.

Physical Best: Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness and Health book cover

Physical Best: Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness and Health

Physical Best: Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness and Health helps teachers impart the skills and knowledge that students need to become physically literate, details best practices, and shows how to integrate health-related fitness education into an existing curriculum.

Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills Fourth Edition

Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, 3rd Edition

Helps you guide your students in mastering the critical elements of 8 locomotor and 17 manipulative skills. This approach offers a perfect balance between sound pedagogy and fun activities – all aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes – that will engage your students and keep them learning.

Moving With Words and Actions

Moving With Words & Actions will help you introduce the skills and knowledge that builds the physical literacy children will need to succeed in physical education classes in subsequent grades. This dynamic new resource offers more than 70 lesson plans, all of which are aligned with SHAPE America’s National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.

Physical Best: Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness and Health

Physical Best: Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness and Health helps teachers impart the skills and knowledge that students need to become physically literate, details best practices, and shows how to integrate health-related fitness education into an existing curriculum.

Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, 4th Edition

Helps you guide your students in mastering the critical elements of 8 locomotor and 17 manipulative skills. This approach offers a perfect balance between sound pedagogy and fun activities – all aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes – that will engage your students and keep them learning.

 
Lesson Planning for Physical Education
Lesson Planning for High School Physical Education

Lesson Planning for High School Physical Education: Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes

This resource offers more than 240 sequential and comprehensive lesson plans that are aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education. You can use the plans as they are or use them as models to create your own units and lessons.

Lesson Planning for Middle School Physical Education

Lesson Planning for Middle School Physical Education: Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes

Offers 176 lessons - arranged in 22 modules - that align directly with SHAPE America's National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes. Easy-to-implement lesson plans for grades 6 through 8, on topics such as badminton, social dance, volleyball, adventure activities and many, many more...all geared toward having students meeting the Grade-Level Outcomes for middle school.

Lesson Planning for Elementary Physical Education

Lesson Planning for Elementary School Physical Education: Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes

Offers expert guidance in implementing lessons and curricula that are aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes. The 65 lesson plans and over 200 learning experiences are flexible, reflect best practices, and foster the achievement of physical literacy.

Lesson Planning for High School Physical Education: Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes

This resource offers more than 240 sequential and comprehensive lesson plans that are aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education. You can use the plans as they are or use them as models to create your own units and lessons.

Lesson Planning for Middle School Physical Education: Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes

Offers 176 lessons - arranged in 22 modules - that align directly with SHAPE America's National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes. Easy-to-implement lesson plans for grades 6 through 8, on topics such as badminton, social dance, volleyball, adventure activities and many, many more...all geared toward having students meeting the Grade-Level Outcomes for middle school.

Lesson Planning for Elementary Physical Education: Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes

Offers expert guidance in implementing lessons and curricula that are aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes. The 65 lesson plans and over 200 learning experiences are flexible, reflect best practices, and foster the achievement of physical literacy.