Teaching Team Sports: A Coeducational Approach

This text also presents complete information on how to effectively teach seven team sports in coeducational settings.

Teaching Team Sports helps methods class instructors

* organize course material,

* develop a curriculum,

* plan teaching sequences, and

* learn to analyze sport skills.

Teaching Team Sports is also a valuable reference for secondary physical educators in middle and high school settings and for recreation leaders. It will help them

* understand basic movement patterns,

* organize groups into learning units,

* include all students or group members in the learning experience,

* avoid discipline problems caused by disorganized practice time,

* develop teaching strategies to maximize participation, and

* meet the special demands of teaching coeducational classes.

The text is divided into two parts. The first part explains coed sports along with the principles of movement and observation to help teachers more skillfully recognize movement variations and give positive feedback to improve their player's movement patterns. You'll also learn about fundamental movement skills and how some are related to others. Similarities and differences between the movement skills are outlined so teachers can plan effective learning experiences.

Part Two addresses specific sports: basketball, field hockey, flag/touch football, soccer, softball, speedball, and volleyball. Each chapter contains

* a brief history of the sport,

* purpose and values of the sport,

* a description and basic rules,

* suggestions for playing the sport coeducationally,

* a teaching progression,

* a description of techniques,

* practice activities,

* offensive and defensive strategies,

* common errors and corrections,

* terminology, and

* selected readings.

You'll find 185 drawings showing correct performance techniques and team formations as well as error and correction charts for the sports' skills. You'll also find numerous coeducational drills to help you practice each skill and plan more effective classes. Use them daily in your practice sessions to develop progressive skill patterns and build team effort.

No one knows the importance of team sports better than Joan Philipp (veteran schoolteacher) and Jerry Wilkerson (specialist on sport technique and fundamental movement). Their combined years of experience and knowledge make Teaching Team Sports the most comprehensive text available for teaching coed classes.

Whether you're teaching beginning or intermediate skills or coaching young players, you need Teaching Team Sports--a fresh approach for today's physical education classes.

Dr. Philipp is a professor of health and physical education at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio. She taught at the secondary level for 10 years and has supervised student teachers and taught methods class to prospective teachers for many years. She has coached 17 years of basketball, field hockey, softball, volleyball, and swimming, both interscholastic and intercollegiate teams. Through her experience, Dr. Philipp found a need for a current, comprehensive text to provide basic knowledge, teaching progressions, and constructive class organizational plans for middle and high school physical educators.

Dr. Wilkerson is an associate professor of physical education at Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. She has been a teacher at all levels (K through graduate collegiate), a coach for high school and college sports, and a university biomechanics researcher for 12 years. It is Dr. Wilkerson's teaching/coaching experience that led her to study sport techniques and fundamental movement. She has authored over 20 research publications on sport techniques and made over 30 presentations on sport techniques and teaching applications.