A variety of strategies that itinerant special physical education teachers can use to solve problems in order to teach effectively are explored. Discussed are strategies needed for teaching and strategies needed to work with other itinerant special physical educators. (MT)

Physical fitness as it relates to children is discussed. The importance of retaining children's enthusiasm for physical activity is emphasized. (MT)

This article discusses why students fail to dress for physical education class and what can be done to alleviate this problem. (MT)

Discusses 10 questions that physical education teachers can use as a beginning guide for mainstreaming physically handicapped students. (GLR)

Evaluation provides the basis for determining the appropriateness of the curriculum, the effectiveness of instructional strategies, and the magnitude of student achievement. A systematic and practical system of evaluation is proposed which allows the physical education teacher to effectively evaluate. (MT)

This article reviews research showing that physical educators are not successfully helping students acquire motor skills and suggests ways of teaching more effectively. (MT)

This article presents a rationale for a multicultural approach to teaching physical education. Teachers don't need to know all of the culturally specific answers but must be aware that there may be differences in interactional styles. (MT)

Meta-analysis is a set of procedures used to quantify, integrate, and analyze the findings of a large number of research studies. The article describes the new statistical techniques used and provides an example of their application to data regarding gender differences in throwing velocity of children and adolescents. (Author/MT)

Educators from around the state, with the help of The Vermont Institutes, developed Vermont Physical Education Grade Cluster Expectations (GCEs) as a means to identify the physical education content knowledge and skills expected of all students for local assessment required under Act 68. This work was accomplished using the "Vermont's…

This publication is a guide to assessing the subject-matter competence of prospective physical education teachers in California. The guide was developed as part of a statewide response to legislated entry and exit standards for teachers in elementary and secondary schools. An introduction describes the regulations and executive order, which are…

Physical education teachers with good discipline exhibit remarkable similarity in authority style. They communicate a positive role model, are generally good planners, and tend to be good communicators. Such teachers periodically assess their teaching behavior and the learning styles of their students. Most of all, they are consistent in their…

Transfer of learning from drills to real games is a complex process, depending on similarities between the components of stimulus and response. Designing drills to more closely reflect game skills and differentiating scoring during games to reward the use of new skills can improve playing performance. (MT)

Training teachers to recognize and assist abused and neglected children is important because a positive relationship with a teacher can help remediate some detrimental effects. Signs of abuse and neglect, areas of needed research, and actions for educators to take in abuse cases are set forth. (MT)

The aim of this article is to provide teachers with interesting and intelligible ways of interpreting fitness test results to students. Also shown are ways that fitness testing can be used to diagnose fitness needs, provide a basis for exercise prescription, help monitor progress, and individualize fitness education concepts. (IAH)

With the advent of online searching, the terminology available for topic searching has greatly expanded and deepened. CD-ROMs and computerized databases available through online search services offer a variety of approaches to research in physical education. The article explains the use of computerized databases in an interdisciplinary field. (SM)