Putting Research to Work in Elementary Physical Education

Part 1 The basics - numbers, time, space, equipment and behaviors: how equipment and class size make a difference; who gets the teacher's attention?; more days per week equals more learning; modifying equipment to fit the students. Part 2 Managing the class: reducing disruptive student behaviors; active supervision and student learning; teaching social behaviors; recording and classifying teacher management behaviors; teaching fair play in the gym and school. Part 3 Interactions among students: using trained peer tutors; peer-mediated accountability and successful practice. Part 4 Strategies for teaching and learning: can learners guide their own practice with self-talk?; using environmental cues to guide practice. Part 5 The voices of students: kindergarten children describe physical education; third-grade children describe physical education; children describe the mile-run fitness test; children describe what they learn in physical education; high school seniors recall elementary physical education. Part 6 Teachers in the workplace - training, experience and context: preservice classroom teachers in the gym; is daily physical education worth the price?; the impact of inclusion on physical education teachers; how five years of experience changed a teacher; how veterans and rookies planned a class. Part 7 Assessment as part of training: using skill assessment to build effective lessons; is peer assessment both practical and accurate?; Part 8 The SPARK studies - a program for teachers and children: the impact of SPARK on children's fitness and activity; the impact of SPARK on catching, throwing and kicking; how well do children like various physical education activities?. Part 9 Reviewing studies of the effects of physical education: the legacy of elementary school physical education. Part 10 The Trois-Rivieres studies - long-term effects of physical education: twenty-year follow-ups of participants in a model program.