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Teaching responsibility through physical activity / Don Hellison.

By: Hellison, Donald R, 1938-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, 2003Edition: 2nd ed.Description: x, 165 p : ill ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0736046011; 9780736046015.Subject(s): Physical education and training -- Sociological aspects -- Study and teaching | Responsibility -- Study and teaching | Health and Wellbeing | Educational psychology | Teaching skills & techniques | Teaching of a specific subject | Sports & active outdoor recreationDDC classification: 306.483 | 306.483 HEL
Contents:
Part I: Ideas -- What's worth doing? -- Themes for teaching personal and social responsibility -- Levels of responsibility -- Part II: Strategies -- Lesson plan -- Integrating responsibility with physical activity content -- Strategies for specific problems and situations -- Teacher-student relationship -- Assessment -- Part III: Implementation -- Getting started -- Programs to supplement in-school physical education -- Epilogue.
Summary: Offering practical teaching guidance and tools for physical activity settings, using field-tested examples, this book demonstrates the basic 'convictions' required to teach social and personal responsibility to children and youths, and to enable them to realise their potential.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this revised and expanded second edition, you'll

-learn about the basic convictions needed for teaching social and personal responsibility to children and youth;

-hear from real teachers and kids in real schools and other programs;

-acquire new strategies, field-tested in both inner-city and suburban settings; and

-gain a better understanding of how to guide children and youth to become their social and personal bests.

In Teaching Responsibility Through Physical Activity, Second Edition, Don Hellison guides teachers in using physical activity to foster personal and social responsibility. Hellison's expanded and revised classic provides strategies that have been field-tested in inner-city and suburban settings and will help you guide your students toward greater responsibility.

This new edition of Teaching Responsibility Through Physical Activity is focused on teaching in school settings. It includes the following features:

-KidQuotes, comments from real kids to motivate you to apply the concepts)

-Updated references

-"Take-Aways" that summarize each chapter and help you consider your own situation

-New chapters on the lesson plan structure

-Information on how to integrate responsibility into physical activity lessons

-Strategies for specific problems that arise in class

-Guidelines for assessment of responsibility

PETE instructors and course adopters can use this book to help preservice physical education teachers and recreation leaders develop methods for promoting personal and social responsibility.

Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a preservice teacher, you'll find that Hellison's popular guide, which includes a foreword by internationally renowned educator Daryl Siedentop, has been taken to an even higher level--one that can help you have a great impact on your students.

Previous ed.: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index.

Part I: Ideas -- What's worth doing? -- Themes for teaching personal and social responsibility -- Levels of responsibility -- Part II: Strategies -- Lesson plan -- Integrating responsibility with physical activity content -- Strategies for specific problems and situations -- Teacher-student relationship -- Assessment -- Part III: Implementation -- Getting started -- Programs to supplement in-school physical education -- Epilogue.

Offering practical teaching guidance and tools for physical activity settings, using field-tested examples, this book demonstrates the basic 'convictions' required to teach social and personal responsibility to children and youths, and to enable them to realise their potential.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part I Ideas
  • Chapter 1 What's Worth Doing?
  • What's Worth Doing in Your Professional Life?
  • Birth of Taking Personal and Social Responsibility
  • Rationale for Teaching for Affective and Social-Moral Goals
  • There Are No Silver Bullets in Physical Education
  • Take-Aways
  • Chapter 2 Themes for Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility
  • Five Goals
  • Some Building Blocks in Using Physical Education to Teach Responsibility
  • Four Themes
  • Role of Themes
  • Take-Aways
  • Chapter 3 Levels of Responsibility
  • Progression of Levels
  • Cumulative Levels
  • Five Levels
  • Level Modifications
  • Relation of Levels to Themes
  • Take-Aways
  • Part II Strategies
  • Chapter 4 Lesson Plan
  • Counseling Time
  • Awareness Talk
  • The Lesson
  • Group Meeting
  • Reflection Time
  • Take-Aways
  • Chapter 5 Integrating Responsibility With Physical Activity Content
  • Physical Activity Content
  • Strategy Progression
  • Level I Strategies
  • Level II Strategies
  • Level III Strategies
  • Level IV Strategies
  • Level V Strategies
  • Take-Aways
  • Chapter 6 Strategies for Specific Problems and Situations
  • Self-Reflection and Reflection in Action
  • Fattening Your Bag of Tricks
  • Take-Aways
  • Chapter 7 Teacher-Student Relationship
  • Four Relational Qualities
  • Bleeding-Heart Liberals Need Not Apply
  • Relational Qualities and Counseling Time
  • Teacher Qualities and Skills
  • Teaching Students With Different Cultural Backgrounds
  • Take-Aways
  • Chapter 8 Assessment
  • Student Evaluation
  • Program Evaluation
  • Teacher Evaluation
  • Take-Aways
  • Part III Implementation
  • Chapter 9 Getting Started
  • Is TPSR for You?
  • Sequential Stages
  • Taking Your First Steps
  • Integration of Responsibility Into the Physical Activity Lesson
  • Jumping Steps
  • Advanced Steps
  • Teaching As a Subversive Activity
  • Take-Aways
  • Chapter 10 Programs to Supplement In-School Physical Education
  • Cross-Age Teaching and Leadership
  • Coaching Clubs
  • Responsibility-Based Fitness Center
  • TPSR in the Classroom
  • TPSR on the Playground and at Recess
  • TPSR in Organized Sport
  • Schoolwide Adoptions of TPSR
  • Take-Aways
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Don Hellison, PhD, is a professor in the College of Education and the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is best known for his work with at-risk youth and for the development of effective approaches to teaching physical activities in schools and social agencies. Since 1970 Hellison also has taught physical education part-time to young people in inner-city schools and community youth organizations, alternative schools, residential homes, and detention centers.

Hellison's ideas and experiences appear in a variety of journals and books, including A Reflective Approach to Teaching Physical Education, Goals and Strategies for Teaching Physical Education, Youth Development and Physical Activity: Linking Universities and Communities, and Beyond Balls and Bats: Alienated Youth in the Gym. He served as editor of Quest from 1996 to 1998.

He is a recipient of the Curriculum and Instruction Academy Scholar Award (2000), American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Presidential Citation (2000), the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) Hall of Fame Award (1999), National Association of Physical Education in Higher Education (NAPEHE) Scholar Award (1998), and the International Olympic Committee President's Prize (1995). Hellison is a member of AAHPERD, NASPE, and NAPEHE.