Physical activity doesn’t have to be confined to physical education class. Many schools are discovering the benefits of incorporating physical activity throughout the day. In fact, schools increasingly need to do so as requirements for weekly minutes of physical activity expand beyond the time available for physical education class.
With Schoolwide Physical Activity: A Comprehensive Guide to Designing and Conducting Programs, K-12 classroom teachers and administrators will learn how to design and conduct activity programs that not only meet wellness policy requirements and goals but also motivate and encourage all students to be physically active.
The premise of this innovative guide is that physical activity in schools is not the sole responsibility of the PE teacher. It is the responsibility of all administrators and teachers—and is most successful when it is integrated throughout the curriculum.
To that end, Schoolwide Physical Activity highlights the role of elementary classroom teachers in providing opportunities for physical activity, and it offers an array of tools and programs for teachers to incorporate in their classrooms. At the secondary level, the book creates a vision of a good physical activity program and then shows secondary teachers and administrators how to achieve that vision. Through this text, teachers and administrators receive
a blueprint for building a comprehensive and coordinated K-12 physical activity program;
ready-to-use activities and forms; and
program ideas that address both the needs and desires of all children, not just the small percentage who gravitate toward physical activity.
Schoolwide Physical Activity comes with a CD-ROM that contains all the printable activities, forms, and tools from the book and over 200 activities for classroom teachers, inclusive transitional activities, integrated lessons, and simple games and dances. The comprehensive guide includes a Web site with an instructor guide, presentation package, and test package.
This resource will help teachers and administrators see their roles and responsibilities in a new light and gain stakeholder support for wellness and activity programs, and it will assist in coordinating efforts among all involved in providing students with safe and appropriate programs that will transform their schools into more active places for learning.
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1. Physical Activity and the School Program
Chapter 2. The School Wellness Program and Physical Activity
Part II: The Elementary Physical Activity Program
Chapter 3. Quality Elementary Physical Education
Chapter 4. The Elementary School Physical Activity Program
Chapter 5. The Role of the Classroom Teacher in Physical Activity Programs
Chapter 6. Recess
Chapter 7. Games in the Elementary School
Chapter 8. Teaching Dance and Rhythms
Chapter 9. Fitness for the Elementary School Child
Chapter 10. Administering the Elementary School Physical Activity Program
Chapter 11. Programs Before, During, and After School and Special Events
Part III: The Secondary Physical Activity Program
Chapter 12. The Comprehensive Physical Activity Program for the Secondary School
Chapter 13. Planning the Secondary Physical Activity Program
Chapter 14. Administering the Physical Activity Program
Chapter 15. Conducting Intramural Sports
Chapter 16. Conducting Secondary Heath-Related Fitness Programs
Part IV: Wellness Programs
Chapter 17. Parent, Staff, and Faculty Physical Activity Programs
Judith E. Rink, PhD, began her career as an elementary physical education teacher in 1965. She is a professor in the physical education department at the University of South Carolina, where she taught for nearly 30 years and served as department chair for more than 10 years. She has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the Teacher Educator Honor Award from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) in 2007 and the NASPE Hall of Fame Award in 2000.
Tina J. Hall, PhD, is an assistant professor in the physical education department at the University of South Carolina. She taught elementary and middle school physical education for 18 years and conducted several programs similar to those addressed in this book. She has conducted numerous workshops and in-services for physical education teachers, encouraging them to take a leadership role in promoting schoolwide physical activity, and has also conducted workshops and in-services for classroom teachers to help them provide opportunities for physical activity throughout the school day.
Lori H. Williams, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. She has taught physical education at the elementary, middle school, and college levels and has taught other subject matter at the elementary and middle school levels. Her 25 years of teaching experience includes 14 years in public schools. She served as president of the South Carolina Association for Physical Education and Sport in 2006; during her tenure as president she developed material and initiated workshops for physical activity directors in South Carolina elementary schools.