1st Edition
Teach Now! Physical Education Becoming a Great PE Teacher
Being taught by a great teacher is one of the great privileges of life. Teach Now! is an exciting series that opens up the secrets of great teachers and, step by step, helps trainees, or teachers new to the profession, to build the skills and confidence they need to become first-rate classroom practitioners.
Written by a highly-skilled practitioner, this accessible guide contains all the support you need to become a great Physical Education teacher. Combining a grounded, modern rationale for teaching with highly practical training approaches, the book offers clear, straightforward advice on effective practice which will develop students' physical literacy, knowledge and inter-personal skills.
Enhanced by carefully chosen examples to demonstrate good practice, and with key definitions and ready-to-use activities included throughout, the book examines the aims and value of teaching PE, and outlines the essential components of providing a good Physical Education to students of all ages and abilities. Planning, assessment and behaviour management are all covered in detail, alongside chapters which focus upon the criteria and objectives of an effective PE curriculum, how to support students with special educational needs and physical disabilities, and how to create practical and effective ways to cater for the most-able students within PE.
Teach Now! Physical Education contains all the support required by trainee or newly qualified PE teachers. With advice on job applications, interviews, and your very first term, this book is your essential guide as you start your exciting career as an outstanding Physical Education teacher.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The aims of Physical Education
Chapter 2: Curriculum essentials in Physical Education
Chapter 3: Planning essentials
Chapter 4: Assessment essentials
Chapter 5: Effective differentiation within PE
Chapter 6: Providing for the most-able within PE
Chapter 7: Providing for students with special education needs within PE
Chapter 8: Use of ICT in Physical Education
Chapter 9: Ensuring good behaviour in PE lessons
Chapter 10: Using action research to improve practice
Chapter 11: PE as a tool for improving transition/transfer
Chapter 12: Leadership for learning
Chapter 13: Improving subject knowledge
Chapter 14: Health and Safety in PE
Chapter 15: From PE to community sport
Chapter 16: Job Applications and Interview Advice
Chapter 17: Your first term in post
Biography
Daniel Burton currently teaches at King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds as Director of Sport and Student Leadership. He is involved in training NQTs and trainees from a range of providers, embedding student leadership across the school and helping to develop teaching and learning.