Cooperative Learning in Physical Education - Softcover

Grineski, Steve

9780873228794: Cooperative Learning in Physical Education

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873228790 ISBN 13: 9780873228794

Publisher: Human Kinetics, 1996

Are you encouraging teamwork and self-confidence in your classes? Does your curriculum promote positive social interaction, as well as psychomotor and cognitive learning?

Cooperative Learning in Physical Education helps you teach students to value each other through positive interdependence, individual accountability, and collaborative skills.

The book explains why and how you should develop cooperative learning lessons. You’ll learn

� about the benefits of cooperative learning and its positive impact on your students;

� how to use cooperative activities to supplement or substitute for your existing curriculum;

� how to modify existing activities in your curriculum by using cooperative structures; and

� how to use structures and prescribed goals to develop new activities.

The book also provides 45 activities that encourage participants to interact verbally and physically and work together to solve various movement tasks. A handy Activity Finder grid helps you locate the right activity for the right situation. Activities are listed according to these areas:

� Movement concepts and basic motor skills

� Dance

� Games

� Physical fitness

� Gymnastics

Each activity is goal directed so learning occurs in the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains. The variations provided for each activity will help you meet the needs of more students and challenge them in different ways.

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About the Author:

Steve Grineski, EdD, is a professor and the program coordinator for elementary and developmental/adapted physical education at Moorhead State University (MSU), Minnesota.

Steve has more than 22 years’ experience teaching in physical education--10 years in public schools and 12 years in teacher education. He received the National Association for Sport and Physical Education Inspiration Award in 1994 and the MSU Academic Affairs Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1995.

Author of more than 60 publications and articles about cooperative learning and physical education, Steve also has made more than 50 conference presentations, including sessions in 1990 and 1992 at the International Conference for the Study of Cooperation in Education.

Steve is a member of both the International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education and the American Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. He has served on the editorial board for Teaching Elementary Physical Education.

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