A Practical Guide to Teaching Physical Education in the Secondary School

A Practical Guide to Teaching Physical Education in the Secondary School is written for all student teachers on university and school-based initial teacher education programmes. It offers a wealth of tried and tested strategies together with practical activities and materials to support your teaching to enhance pupils' learning. It is designed for you to dip in and out of, and enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme or pupils' learning.
This third edition is fully updated with the most recent developments in teaching physical education and features five brand new chapters. Key topics covered include:
Planning schemes of work, units of work and lessons
Safe practice, risk assessment and risk management
Promoting positive behaviour
Applying theories of learning to your practice
Overcoming barriers and maximising the achievement of all pupils
Assessing learning
Physical literacy NEW
Health related learning NEW
Using digital technologies NEW
Reflective practice and action research
Managing your workload, resilience, health and well-being NEW
Working with your mentor NEW
Photocopiable resources offer assistance in lesson observation, planning, preparation, teaching and evaluation. An annotated 'Further resources' section at the end of each chapter provides information about some useful additional resources to support you in your development as a teacher.
Illustrated throughout with examples of existing good practice, this highly practical resource offers valuable support and guidance to all student teachers as well as those in the early years of their teaching career.
Although A Practical Guide to Teaching Physical Education in the Secondary School, 3rd Edition can be used successfully on its own, it is also a companion to Learning to Teach Physical Education in the Secondary School, 5th Edition and can be used to reinforce the basic teaching skills covered in that core textbook.

Susan Capel is Emeritus Professor at Brunel University London, where she was previously Head of School of Sport and Education. Joanne Cliffe is Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where she is Programme Lead for the Secondary Physical Education PGDipEd (QTS) and Director for the MA Teaching Studies. Julia Lawrence was, until recently, Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Hull. Julia has written on a number of subjects including physical education, mentoring, reflective practice and becoming a teacher educator.

1 The nature of physical education 2 Your philosophy of physical education 3 Enacting a physical literacy approach 4 Long-term planning: Schemes of work 5 Medium- and short-term planning: Units of work and lesson plans 6 Health-related learning in physical education 7 Planning for pupils' learning in broader dimensions of the curriculum 1: citizenship, social, moral, spiritual, cultural, personal and mental development 8 Preparing pupils for opportunities, responsibilities and experiences beyond the school curriculum 9 Planning for the contribution of physical education to cross-curricular teaching 10 Using Digital Technologies To Enhance Your Teaching Of Physical Education 11 Safe practice, risk assessment and risk management 12 Teaching for Intentional Learning 13 Creating an effective learning environment 14 Applying theories of learning to your practice 15 Assessing pupils' learning 16 Teaching to promote positive behaviour 17 Overcoming barriers and maximising the achievement of all pupils 18 Working with others 19 Viewing physical education from a different perspective - an alternative approach to planning for learning 20 The reflective practitioner 21 Action research 22 Working with your mentor 23 Managing your workload, resilience, health and well-being