Creative Approaches to Physical Education

"Creative Approaches to Physical Education" provides guidance on how to develop innovative new approaches to the delivery of each area of the National Curriculum for PE at Key Stages 2 and 3. The ideas have all been successfully developed in schools where every child has been encouraged to find success and to express themselves in new ways that surprise and delight teachers. Pupils feel ownership of their learning and pride in their achievements, fostering interest, creativity and motivation.Ideal for non-specialist and specialist PE teachers and trainee teachers alike, this book: explores the PE curriculum in a much wider sense than traditional approaches allow; covers the key areas of physical education such as games, dance and gymnastics; inspires us to look afresh at how we can exploit the learning potential of the outdoors; shows how children use skills to express themselves creatively; gives innovative suggestions for the use of ICT in PE teaching to encourage independent, personalised leaning; and examines how physical education can be linked with other subjects in a creative way.Childhood obesity is a growing concern and there are worries that young people have few purposeful leisure interests. This book offers teachers and all those who work with young people alternative approaches and activities that allow young people to express their creative side through physical activity and discover active healthy interests that will last a lifetime.

ISBN 0415445884   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780415445887 (What's this?)   Pages 168 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Routledge   Weight (grammes) 294 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 18 Apr 2008   Height (mm) 246 Library of Congress 2007044887   Width (mm) 174 DEWEY 613.7042   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

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		List of contributors
1		The creative agenda and its relationship to physical education by Jim Lavin		1
2		Creative games at Key Stages 2 and 3: moving the goal posts by Jim Lavin		12
3		Teaching dance: a framework for creativity by Glenn Swindlehurst and Alison Chapman		29
4		Creativity and gymnastics by Lawry Price		55
5		Creative approaches to promoting healthy, active lifestyles by Jo Harris		79
6		Information and communications technology in physical education: an innovative teaching and learning approach by Nigel Clarke		92
7		Creativity and outdoor education: how dare you by Richard Lemmey		108
8		Cross-curricular Key Stage 2 physical education: moving to learn by Glenn Swindlehurst		118
9		Creativity matters by Patrick Smith		142
		Index		149

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