Pe4life: Developing And Promoting Quality Physical Education

Synopsis

Almost 65 percent of adults in the United States are overweight or obese-and children are on pace to be significantly fatter in their own adulthood than today's adults. Making matters worse, the number of physical education classes in schools is plummeting as well.

So how can schools with diminishing PE budgets be successful? By following the blueprint provided in PE4life: Developing and Promoting Quality Physical Education.

This book and DVD package is part inspiration, part tool kit, and part textbook. Those parts combine to make it the ideal resource for anyone involved in developing and promoting quality physical education programs.

PE4life includes the following elements:

• A DVD featuring Phil Lawler, a veteran physical education teacher and coach and the director of the PE4life Academy in Naperville, Illinois
• PE4life's seven-step action plan for improving a physical education program
• A wealth of examples of assessments, lesson plans, curricula, and more to use as advocacy tools
• Plenty of ready-to-use worksheets, handouts, reproducibles, and key links

Through the seven-step action plan, you will learn to develop a physical education improvement plan. This plan is supported by many examples of successful programs and time-tested ideas on how to implement your plan. On the DVD, Phil Lawler, whose renowned middle school program became the first PE4life Academy site and has become synonymous with the New Physical Education movement, outlines strategies he's used to build his program. The DVD also features a video promoting quality physical education. As such, this DVD is an ideal in-service training resource.

Thiscomprehensive resource serves as the official training manual for the PE4life Academies and is used by universities across the country to prepare their physical education majors to be strong advocates of quality physical education. It also acts as the perfect resource for curriculum committees, district directors, and teachers looking to improve their programs.

PE4life comes at a time when it is most needed. In response to the obesity epidemic and other health problems related to inactivity that we now face, PE4life provides the expertise you need to meet these problems head on by providing top-quality physical education.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Z. Altug, MS, PT(UCLA Medical Center)
Description:This book provides many practical solutions for encouraging physical activity in children which will ultimately help them in later years.
Purpose:The step-by-step guide provides an action plan for developing a physical education program for life. The plan teaches students the importance of lifetime physical activity to build strength and flexibility and aerobic fitness to help prevent obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. This book is timely since there are currently more than 10 million children ages 6 to 17 that are considered overweight and almost half of these children are severely obese.
Audience:It is written for physical educators, wellness directors, and community fitness coordinators to help educate young people about the importance of physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. The author is a veteran physical educator with 34 years of experience and has been named to the USA Today First Team All-American Teaching Team -- the first PE teacher to make the first team.
Features:The book uses numerous easy-to-read tables, graphs, charts, lists, and worksheets to show how a successful physical education can be developed and implemented. The best part of the book is that it gives plenty of examples of how to design and follow through with a fun and effective physical education program. At the end of the book, plenty of useful physical education web sites, references, and resources are listed. The book also includes a quality DVD with the author leading a PE4Life training session, videos discussing the importance of physical education, and reproducible worksheets and forms.
Assessment:This is very easy to use and will help physical educators design fun, simple, and effective physical activity programs for young people.