Special attention is given the development of qualitative approaches enabling students to examine problematic issues and practices in physical education, sport, and other movement forms. A review of contemporary research literature informing effective teaching practices in physical education settings. Movement concepts applied to the elementary school physical education program. Considers movement exploration techniques, locomotor, nonlocomotor, and manipulative skills. A review of contemporary research literature informing effective teaching practices in physical education settings.
Students gain experience in critically reviewing literature and discussing current issues.
This cohort 5th year course includes taxonomies of physical education, descriptive techniques of teaching effectiveness and of student behavior, evaluation of elementary level programs and students, and field trips to selected public schools. Methods, techniques and special groups of physical education for the atypical child. This cohort fifth-year course focuses on the skills necessary to develop and maintain an effective physical education learning environment. Special attention is given to the development of effective units of instruction throughout the K-12 curriculum. The focus of this course is instructional supervision as a set of complex processes in which the supervisor works within accepted guidelines and functions to effectively supervise a teacher's pedagogical development.