A Practical Guide to Teaching Physical Education in the Secondary School

A Practical Guide to Teaching Physical Education in the Secondary School is written for all student teachers on university and school-based initial teacher education programmes. It offers a wealth of tried and tested strategies together with practical activities and materials to support your teaching to enhance pupils¿ learning. It is designed for you to dip in and out of, and enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme or pupils'' learning.

This third edition is fully updated with the most recent developments in teaching physical education and features five brand new chapters. Key topics covered include:

• Planning schemes of work, units of work and lessons
• Safe practice, risk assessment and risk management
• Promoting positive behaviour
• Applying theories of learning to your practice
• Overcoming barriers and maximising the achievement of all pupils<