Dynamic Physical Education for Secondary School Students - Hardcover

Dynamic Physical Education for Secondary School Students, Fifth Edition provides secondary school physical education pre-service teachers everything they need to know to create an exciting and thoughtful PE program for their students. Using accessible, easy-to-read language, authors Paul Darst and Robert Pangrazi cover foundational teaching elements as well as the latest issues in physical education. A focus on important issues facing today's PE teachers covers such topics as obesity in youth and teaching culturally diverse students. Up-to-date, cutting edge research, recommended reading, and a variety of study tools throughout the text make this book a comprehensive resource for teachers of physical education. The text, when tied to the accompanying lesson plan book, becomes a comprehensive curriculum guide for pre-service and in-service teachers for grades 7-12. Enhancing the curriculum and instruction in secondary physical education, the text includes many new and motivating ideas, strategies, and activities.

Paul W. Darst received a Ph.D from the Ohio State University in the field of Physical Education. He is currently a professor at Arizona State University in the area of Physical Education-Teacher Preparation. His research and teaching focuses on secondary school physical education curriculum, methods of teaching in the secondary schools, and activity habits of middle school students. Paul has been active professionally at the state, district and national levels of AAHPERD and has received numerous honors and invitations to speak at the various levels. He has also authored Outdoor Adventure Activities for School and Recreation Programs (Waveland Press), Analyzing Physical Education and Sport Instruction (Human Kinetics), and Cycling (Scott, Foresman and Company, Sport for Life Series). He has authored many articles and made numerous presentations to teachers about new ideas on teaching and working with students in the schools. Robert P. Pangrazi is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Arizona State University. Professionally, he has served as an elementary teacher, a university teacher and researcher and as a university administrator. Pangrazi is an Honor Fellow of the AAHPERD and a Fellow in the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education and the North American Society. He was honored by NASPE with the Margie Hanson Distinguished Service. One of Pangrazi's books, Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children, 14th edition (Benjamin Cummings, 2004), has sold more than a half-million copies and is used for teacher preparation courses in colleges and universities throughout the world. He has written 43 other textbooks, served as editor of three professional journals, produced five professional 16mm films, a series of educational videotapes, and two fitness-related videos for national television and authored more than 85 research/journal articles. Robert Pangrazi has been the keynote speaker for 32 state and district conventions, delivered three international presentations and presented approximately 200 speeches at the local, state, and national level. Pangrazi's research focuses on promoting physical activity for youth.