The importance of learning new movement skills is shown in relation to learning folk dances. Folk dancing not only improves physical skills, but also results in an understanding and appreciation of the richness of other cultures. (JN)

The purchaser of wooden play equipment should check a variety of manufacturers before selecting a specific brand. The "Value Comparison Method" of purchasing playground equipment allows the consumer to make a valid comparison of many types of equipment. (JN)

Interest is being generated for personnel trained in exercise physiology, leisure and recreational counseling, and related fields to work in corporations. (JMF)

The AccesSports Model allows professionals with basic knowledge of visual impairments and mainstream sports to analyze any sports activity and design adaptations needed for targets or goals, boundaries, and rules to enable individuals with visual impairments to participate. Suggestions for modifying baseball, table tennis, swim racing, wrestling,…

Demonstrates that giving nursery school children opportunity to talk to the teacher while involved in physical activity enhances learning. Shows that talk enable understanding of the activity engaged in, as well as coherent and fluent expression of ideas and increased mastery of vocabulary. Identifies the teacher's roles as listener, questioner,…

The paper discusses ways for physical education teachers to structure courses to convey their enthusiasm for both course content and student progress. The four-stage process involves marketing of ideas and expectations, direct teaching, application of skills learned, and closing. (SM)

If physical educators can convince classroom teachers to use active teaching ideas, everyone will benefit. The paper explains how physical educators can be leaders in helping classroom teachers make physical education a larger part of everyday education, and it offers strategies for inservice programs and adapting class activities. (SM)

Discusses medical and pedagogical issues of concern to physical educators as they confront and respond to adolescent pregnancy in their schools, making recommendations for the role higher education can play in facilitating exercise programs for pregnant students and discussing an exercise program for pregnant adolescents that has served students…

Steps that physical educators can take to ensure that their gymnastics programs are top notch include asking local experts for help, focusing on student learning and assessment, using solid lead-ups and progressions, emphasizing safety, using teaching situations, providing feedback, managing the class effectively, being budget conscious, and…

Examines theoretical trends in the area of augmented information feedback from teacher/coach to student/athlete, focusing on: the guidance hypothesis; student self-evaluation; feedback style and student achievement; student-controlled versus instructor-controlled feedback; and learning in the absence of augmented feedback. Practical suggestions to…

Discusses the use of student teachers' reflective story writing to generate cases for future physical education teacher education courses. After describing what reflective writing and case studies are, the article explains one method of developing stories and using them as cases, providing three examples of actual reflective cases. (SM)

Coaching behaviors can be modified to improve the coach-athlete relationship. Systematic observation can provide positive feedback to athletes/physical education students. Seven steps in the process of systematic observation include deciding what behaviors to observe, defining those behaviors, selecting appropriate coding techniques, determining…

School safety is a human concern, one that every school and community must take seriously and strive continually to achieve. It is also a legal concern; schools can be held liable if they do not make good-faith efforts to provide a safe and secure school environment. How schools are built and maintained is an integral part of school safety and…

This booklet on asthma for physical education teachers and other school personnel offers guidelines for the maximum inclusion of students with asthma in regular physical education activities. It stresses that today's treatments can successfully control asthma so that students can participate fully in physical activities most of the time. First…

These guidelines for physical education accreditation were field tested and modified to meet new National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) standards. The purpose of the first section of this guidebook is to provide specific process and content information regarding the history of the project, an overview of the…