Six common sporting miscues are examined and analyzed for their meanings and ramifications. The miscues involve accurate basketball and volleyball shots; overarm patterns; volleyball spikes; softball pitching; and basketball defense moves. (CB)

This article offers teachers and coaches ideas to help them provide their students with soccer games that are not only fun but also develop the fundamental skills needed for improvement at all levels. The learning games are organized by specific soccer concepts and level of difficulty. (IAH)

Developmentally appropriate games in physical education provide ample learning time for all students, not just highly skilled students. The paper explains how to modify activities to be developmentally appropriate so students at all skill levels can succeed. (SM)

Presents activities and games to teach students in grades K-6 how to throw and catch correctly. Because throwing and catching are developmental skills, teachers must pay attention to them, and students must practice them repeatedly. Activities are presented by grade level because children's skills vary between (and within) grades. (SM)

Sporting cues, phrases, and key words are used extensively in coaching and teaching sports skills. If the meanings and ramifications of these cues are analyzed in terms of laws of motion and anatomy as well as current research, they may be found to be miscues. Six commonly used miscues are examined. (MT)

Provides strategies that athletic and physical education personnel can use in developing partnerships with community agencies or businesses, focusing on identifying and recruiting partners and maintaining partnerships (which involves understanding ways that the school can enhance the partnership and ways that the business can enhance the school).…

Sex segregated physical education classes and sports limit opportunities for students to accept and understand each other, frustrate young athletes who are denied learning and play opportunities because of gender, and violate the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988. (IAH)

Explains how in high school athletics, the primary tenets of maintaining positive relationships with team constituencies are communication, team rules, and team planning (i.e., player conferences, team conferences, and evaluation). Success in winning the toughest game and reducing conflict with players and parents lies in a coach's ability to…

Parent role models greatly influence the development of young children's attitudes toward physical activity and sports, and eventually their level of competence and confidence. Physical educators can work with parents to provide a healthy and inviting introduction to sports. Twelve tips for parents are included. (IAH)

Physical educators can incorporate sports-related novels into their curricula to help students explore a variety of sports and to open the door to discussions of the benefits of sport and fitness activities. This article describes how students can take the reading and compositions skills they learned in English and apply them to physical education…

The second in a two-part series providing a mental skills curriculum for instruction in physical education and youth sport settings follows up on the first part, which included lesson plans for introducing children to mental skills. This part provides lesson plans for helping children relax and manage anger or stress, develop facilitative…

Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 is the principal federal law which prohibits sex discrimination in education. The law's requirements with regard to physical education classes and competitive, intramural, and club athletics are discussed. (IAH)

Elementary students want to play traditional games like kickball. Teachers want them to learn developmentally appropriate skills. To meet everyone's needs, physical educators should build games progressively using the "Children Moving" approach, which satisfies all principles of developmental physical education using invariant, dynamic,…

Aerobics instructors can use step aerobics to motivate students. One creative method is to add the step to the circuit workout. By incorporating the step, aerobic instructors can accommodate various fitness levels. The article explains necessary equipment and procedures, describing sample stations for cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength,…

Provides a six-lesson, upper elementary life skills curriculum that can be implemented by physical education teachers and coaches. It targets life skill development through introduction of, and practice with, intrapersonal skills in physical education classes or youth sports settings. The article highlights three of the six lessons, with the other…