Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator
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Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1450437117
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Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator
Author: Alisa R. James
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 2012-08-24
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1492581356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStay energized and organized throughout your school year! Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator: Strategies for the First Year and Beyond will help you face the unique challenges of teaching and support your development as a physical educator. Practical and reader friendly, Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator is filled with the most current information plus examples based on the author's experiences as both a K-12 teacher and a college instructor who prepares future teachers. You'll also find a wealth of information on handling day-to-day issues, such as adapting to the work environment, understanding the school culture, communicating with parents, and behavior management. In addition, sample letters and forms included in the book, such as a typical letter to parents, unit plan, and PE contract, offer models to use in creating your own. Two appendixes provide quick access to suggested teacher resources and FAQs, such as how to prepare for a substitute teacher and concerns about the tenure process. Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator offers strategies to help you • get your gymnasium, your equipment, and yourself organized to begin the school year; • prepare your lessons and unit plans and deliver effective instruction for all students; • evaluate students’ progress; • establish rules and routines to promote good behavior and appropriate consequences for misbehavior; • employ a range of motivational techniques to encourage participation in your class; • develop positive relationships and effective communication with parents and guardians; • understand and navigate your workplace culture; and • avoid burnout and find opportunities for professional growth. This practical guide will help you sharpen your teaching skills, enjoy your work with students, and meet the challenges of teaching, whether it is your first year on the job or one of many in your physical education career.
Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator
Author: Alisa R. James
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781450411998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator" offers support and guidance for the unique challenges of teaching. Both new and veteran teachers will find ideas and advice plus real-life examples based on the author's experiences as both a K-12 teacher and a college instructor working with preservice teachers. The book discusses issues such as adapting to the work environment, understanding the school culture, communicating with parents, and avoiding burnout.
A Survival Guide for New Special Educators
Author: Bonnie S. Billingsley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1118095685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat every special education teacher needs to know to survive and thrive A Survival Guide for New Special Educators provides relevant, practical information for new special education teachers across a broad range of topic areas. Drawing on the latest research on special educator effectiveness and retention, this comprehensive, go-to resource addresses the most pressing needs of novice instructors, resource teachers, and inclusion specialists. Offers research-based, classroom-tested strategies for working with a variety of special needs students Covers everything from preparing for the new school year to behavior management, customizing curriculum, creating effective IEPs, and more Billingsley and Brownell are noted experts in special educator training and support This highly practical book is filled with checklists, forms, and tools that special educators can use every day to help ensure that all special needs students get the rich, rewarding education they deserve.
Finders and Keepers
Author: Susan Moore Johnson
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2004-03-26
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text explores the challenges facing today's new teachers and offers not only cases and informed insight into the career choices of today's teachers, but also practical recommendations about how best to attract and retain a strong teaching force.
How to Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) on a Teacher's Salary
Author: Danny Kofke
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Published: 2007-10
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 1598869027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBriefly presents advice to remain financially stable while receiving a teaching salary, and covers retirement, investments, budgeting, and other related topics.
Your First Year
Author: Todd Whitaker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1317296850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn all the essentials for making your first year of teaching a success! In this exciting new book, internationally renowned educator Todd Whitaker teams up with his daughters--Madeline, an elementary teacher, and Katherine, a secondary teacher--to share advice and inspiration. They offer step-by-step guidance to thriving in your new role and overcoming the challenges that many new teachers face. Topics include: Learning classroom management skills such as building relationships and maintaining high expectations and consistency Setting up your classroom and establishing procedures and rules Planning effective lessons and making your instructional time an engaging experience Managing your own emotions in the classroom and dealing effectively with misbehavior Working with peers, administrators, and parents to build support and foster collaboration The book is filled with specific examples and vignettes from elementary, middle, and high school classes, so you’ll gain helpful strategies no matter what grade level and subject area you teach. You’ll also find out how to make tweaks or hit the "reset" button when something isn’t going as planned. Things may not always go perfectly your first year, but the practical advice in this book will help you stay motivated on the path to success! Bonus: As you read the book, get even more out of it by discussing it with others. Free study guides for practicing teachers and student teachers are available as eResource downloads from our website (www.routledge.com/products/9781138126152).
Precarity, Critical Pedagogy and Physical Education
Author: David Kirk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-18
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1000537064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unflinching analysis explains the nature of precarity and its detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of young people. It exposes physical educators’ unpreparedness to provide inclusive, fair and equitable forms of physical education that might empower young people to overcome the mal effects of precarity. Following a thorough analysis and critique of critical pedagogy, David Kirk advocates for critical pedagogies of affect as physical education’s response to precarity, providing detailed outlines of these pedagogies and their grounding in research. He argues that now more than ever physical educators need to be alive to the serious social and economic challenges that shape young people’s health, happiness and life chances. This bold and provocative book is essential reading for all researchers in the field of physical education and health education pedagogy, as well as teacher educators, curriculum policy makers, and other professionals who work with young people living in precarity.
School Physical Education and Teacher Education
Author: Ann MacPhail
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1000030296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSetting a common international agenda for physical education, this book asks how physical education and physical education teacher education can be reconfigured together so that they are responsive to changes in today’s fast-paced, diverse and uncertain global society. It argues that only a revolutionary move away from national policy silos can reinvigorate physical education and lead to improved, equitable outcomes for children and youth, and both novice and veteran teachers. Drawing on developing success stories in diverse places, this book emphasizes three important strategies: international-comparative analyses, which facilitate cross-border knowledge generation, innovation, professional learning and continuous improvement; solid, dynamic partnerships between teacher education programmes and exemplary school physical education programmes; and knowledge-generating teams consisting of exemplary teachers and teacher educators. Each chapter provides viable alternatives and rationales framed by unique national and local contexts. Significantly, these chapters announce that the work that lies ahead – and starts now – is a collective action project. It necessitates collaborative research and development among policy leaders, researchers, teacher education specialists, physical education teachers and, in some cases, school-age students. This is essential reading for all researchers with an interest in physical education or teacher education, and an invaluable source of new perspectives for physical education students, pre-service and in-service teachers, and educational administrators and policymakers.
Sport, Physical Education, and Social Justice
Author: Nick J. Watson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1000175162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interdisciplinary collection explores the nexus of social justice and sport to consider how sport and physical education can serve as a unique point of commonality in an era of religious, political, economic, and cultural polarity. Originally published as a special issue of Quest, Sport, Physical Education, and Social Justice offers timely theoretical perspectives from the fields of theology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. The volume demonstrates the multiple ways in which sport can be used to overcome inequalities and marginalization relating to gender, race, disability, religion, and sexuality, and posits sports education as a powerful mechanism for addressing school-based issues including bullying, racism, and citizenship education. Truly international in scope, the text includes contributions from scholars addressing issues in both formal and informal sports education settings, communities, and locales. Sport, Physical Education and Social Justice will be of interest to researchers, scholars, policy makers and advocates in the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and religious studies.
