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Complete Reference:
Pangrazi, R.P. & Beighle, A. (2010). Curriculum Guide:
Lesson Plans for Implementation Dynamic Physical Education
for Elementary School Children, 16th edition. San Francisco,
California: Pearson Publishing.
Target Audience/Purpose:
Professional Physical Educators and classroom teachers, as
well as Physical Education Teacher Education students are
targeted.
Author's purpose for book:
This guide is designed to complement the complete text Dynamic
Physical Education for Elementary School Children, 16th edition
(DPE). This curriculum guide provides content for presenting
movement experiences and skills in sequential order, integrating
academic across three developmental levels k-2, 3-4, 5-6,
and provides comprehensive lessons for each development level
in a plethora of games, activities, and sport skills with
NASPE standards present for each activity.
Content: The 16th
Edition of the DPE Curriculum Guide: Lesson Plans for
Implementation Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School
Children provides a roadmap for presenting movement experiences
in a sequential manner across three developmental levels.
This edition of the curriculum guide maintains a structured
format of the four-part lesson. It also includes new content,
such as cooperative games and climbing wall activities.
Each lesson is divided into four instructional
elements:
- Introduction Activity,
- Fitness Development Activity,
- Lesson Focus Activities, and
- Closing Activities.
Each of these components include Objectives
for instructional goals and specific instructional outcomes,
NASPE National Standards for expected outcomes for
physical education program(s), Equipment Required
for specific items needed for lesson, Instructional Activities
are delineated in proper developmental sequence, and Teaching
Hints for teaching hints, cues, and grouping suggestions.
Summary: The DPE
Lesson Plan Book is laid out into three sections according
to the three developmental levels K-2, 3-4, and 5-6. The beginning
of each section is outlined with an example curriculum map.
This map is helpful in order to quickly find activities and
to aid in the development of curriculum mapping or grouping
of activities for a lesson plan.
Activities are broken down into the
simplest form for easy comprehension and application. The
authors give many examples and choices of activities to choose
from, and supply information on teaching the physical activities,
cues/hints, playing area, players, supplies and skills need
to meet lesson objectives.
Strength/Limitations:
Strengths: This lesson Plan Book may
provide the greatest variety of evidence-based physical activities
of all available combination textbooks and lesson plan books.
The new layout of the book offers the information in a more
concise and easier to understand format, with shaded pages
at the beginning of each section making it easier to find
the three different developmental levels (sections) of the
lesson plan book.
Limitations: Teachers not familiar
with the four part lesson will need to learn the time allocation
component of lessons and new activities.
Recommendation: This
book is a useful complementary tool to the DPE
textbook. It provides activity alignment with standards.
It also gives the teacher the necessary tools to choose a
curriculum format, and physical activities so the teacher
can focus on teaching and managing students. It is a great
road map to increase teacher's success and confidence. This
book is also useful for districts without a specified curricular
model, and where teachers create and develop appropriate activities
for students.
Reviewer: Courtney
Teatro, Arizona State University, Mary Lou Fulton College
of Education (2011) Ph. D. student
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