Teaching Physical Activity : Change, Challenge and Choice

by Stiehl, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780736059213
• ISBN10: 0736059210
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-04
• Publisher: Human Kinetics

Summary

This book will help you get participants enthused about physical activity by giving them ownership. Teaching Physical Activity: Change, Challenge, and Choice guides you in designing activities and games through which you can meet your objectives while engaging all the participants in your class or group. You engage all participants by creating healthy learning climates where everyone feels safe, capable, successful, motivated, and connected to others, and where they have a sense of ownership in the activities. And that's exactly what Teaching Physical Activity: Change, Challenge, and Choice helps you do. That ownership comes from the choices that participants make: First, participants choose from challenges that you offer them, which allow them some self-directed behavior. Second, at a more advanced level, participants can choose among options they generate themselves, imparting a greater sense of autonomy-and with it, a willingness to participate in a more personal and appropriate manner. These choices result in changes-changes to games and activities and changes in the ways participants view being physically active. Kids will no longer fear being embarrassed in front of their peers; instead, they will welcome the challenges of a safe and fun learning environment and become more fully engaged. These ideas of choice and change are key ingredients in this book. Other key ingredients include -foundational material on teaching activities and games, -45 ready-to-use games and activities to get you started right away, and -numerous tips, ideas, and strategies to help you fully understand and implement this approach. Part I lays a foundation for changing activities in ways that afford proper challenges to participants. It focuses on ways to maximize participation by relating participants' needs to the program goals, and it explores strategies for introducing change, challenge, and choice into your program. It also guides you in the type of communication necessary for successful implementation, and it details the steps involved in sharing decision making with participants. Part II includes 45 activities that feature change, challenge, and choice strategies you can apply with your participants. The activities span a variety of physical activity pursuits, such as dance, adventure, and sports. Written by the leaders of the "changing kids' games" movement, Teaching Physical Activity: Change, Challenge, and Choice will help you engage all the participants under your charge, regardless of their levels of skill, fitness, and motivation. Your participants will benefit now, and the experience will pave the way for a lifetime of healthy physical activity.

Author Biography

Christina Sinclair is an associate professor in the School of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Northern Colorado.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Understanding Change, Challenge, and Choice	p. 1
Maximizing Participation: The Three Cs	p. 3
Beginning With Participants' Needs	p. 3
Relating Participants' Needs to Program Goals	p. 6
Implementing Strategies to Maximize Participation	p. 7
Summary	p. 10
Strategies to Introduce Change, Challenge, and Choice	p. 11
Meeting the Needs of a Diverse Population	p. 13
Strategies to Introduce Change	p. 14
Strategies to Introduce Challenge	p. 21
Strategies to Introduce Choice	p. 26
Summary	p. 30
The Language of Choice	p. 31
Effective Instructor Talk	p. 31
Effective Discipline	p. 41
Effective Participant Talk	p. 44
Summary	p. 47
Sharing Decision Making	p. 49
Identify the Need for Change	p. 50
Demonstrate Some Changes	p. 51
Grant Permission to Make Changes	p. 52
Use the Five Categories	p. 52
Alter the Degree of Difficulty	p. 57
Offer Appropriate Choices	p. 61
Summary	p. 63
Using Change, Challenge, and Choice	p. 65
Games	p. 69
Couples Races	p. 70
Four-Corners Relay	p. 72
Basketbowl	p. 74
Four-Corners Volleyball	p. 76
One Behind	p. 78
Parts of Speech	p. 80
Maple Hill Ball	p. 82
Adventure Activities	p. 85
Toss-a-Name	p. 88
Circle-the-Circle	p. 90
Speed Rabbit	p. 92
Switch, Change, Rotate	p. 94
School Improvement	p. 96
Iced Tea	p. 100
Keypunch	p. 105
Group Juggling	p. 108
Traffic Jam	p. 112
Fitness Activities	p. 115
Continuous Movement Program (CMP)	p. 116
Around the Gym We Go	p. 118
Swamp Tag	p. 120
1, 2, 3 Dragon	p. 122
Fitnessgram PACER Test	p. 124
Fitness Cups	p. 126
Station Folders	p. 128
Muscle Universe	p. 130
Health-Related Fitness Relay	p. 132
Food Pyramid Challenge	p. 134
Ab War	p. 137
Aerobic Home Fun	p. 138
Walk Across America Challenge	p. 142
Dance Activities	p. 145
Cooperative Boxaerobics	p. 148
Time to Face the Music	p. 152
Creative Four Corners	p. 154
Chalk Walk	p. 156
Seven Jumps	p. 158
Tinikling	p. 160
Sport and Recreational Activities	p. 163
Volleybird	p. 165
Kickball Over a Net	p. 168
Bocce	p. 172
Bocce Pole	p. 176
Dodgeball	p. 178
Tapu-Ae	p. 180
Tchoukball	p. 184
Rugsby	p. 187
Korfball	p. 190
Kwik Cricket	p. 192
Appendix	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 213
About the Authors	p. 218
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