The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education

The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, Third Edition, is a must-have resource for future educators. It presents a standards-based approach and guides educators in building the skills in planning, management, teaching, and assessment needed for successful careers.

This third edition, published in partnership with SHAPE America, incorporates the 2024 National Physical Education Standards throughout each chapter, providing physical educators with current, essential knowledge to build an effective program.

Physical education teacher education (PETE) students and in-service PE teachers will find an accessible, comprehensive guide that will help them deliver meaningful and sequential learning experiences in a psychologically, emotionally, and physically safe environment. As readers work their way through the text, they can acquire the following:

• The ability to critically analyze all aspects of teaching and learning: the context in which the teaching will occur, the student body, all aspects of curriculum and instruction, what to teach, and how to teach it
• A strong working knowledge of standards and standards-based learning outcomes that will help students achieve those outcomes
• The ability to plan for learning in both the short and long term
• The management and teaching skills they need to ensure an equitable environment that fosters student learning in the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains for all students
• The means to assess student learning and program effectiveness

With advice, tips, and success stories from top physical educators in the field, The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education, Third Edition, offers readers insight into how to motivate students while focusing on what teachers really need to know to succeed. It delivers practical and essential information and guidance on the most relevant topics for today's physical educators, including physical literacy, accountability, social justice, social-emotional learning, and trauma-informed practices. Everything a physical educator needs to know to succeed is found here, delivered in a straightforward and highly readable manner.

In addition, online learning aids include downloadable activities for each chapter and key figures from the text, flash cards for vocabulary study, and vocabulary review quizzes for practice.

This text is the definitive guide for future K-12 physical educators, current teachers, and administrators; it is an essential resource for learning to teach at both the elementary and the secondary levels.

Human Kinetics is proud to publish this book in association with SHAPE America, the national organization that defines excellence for school-based health and physical education professionals across the United States.

Note: A URL to access the online materials is included in this print book.

Jennifer L. Walton-Fisette, EdD, is an associate dean and professor of physical education teacher education in the School of Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Studies at Kent State University. She obtained her BS in physical education from Rhode Island College, her MS in sport pedagogy from Ithaca College, and her EdD in physical education teacher education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Walton-Fisette has published four books and more than 50 research articles and serves on numerous editorial boards, including serving as associate editor for Quest. She served as chair of the SHAPE America Research Council and is actively involved with the Ohio Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (OAHPERD); SHAPE America; and other associations. Her scholarship explores social justice, equity, and policy issues in physical education and PETE programs locally, nationally, and internationally. In recent years she has been especially active in the areas of social-emotional learning and trauma-informed teaching, and she is well respected as an expert on these subjects.

Stephen A. Mitchell, PhD, is a professor emeritus (physical education teacher education) of Kent State University. He has BS and MA degrees in physical education and education from Loughborough University in England and a PhD in education from Syracuse University. Mitchell is lead author on multiple editions of Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills, which has been translated into Japanese and Korean. He has numerous refereed journal publications to his credit and has made dozens of keynote addresses and scholarly presentations. Mitchell is a member of SHAPE America, serving on many committees for that organization. He is a past president of the Ohio Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (OAHPERD). In 2005, he received the NASPE Physical Education Teacher Education Honor Award.