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This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of over 40 years of research on models in physical education to suggest Models-based Practice (MbP) as an innovative future approach to physical education. It lays out the ideal conditions for MbP to flourish by situating pedagogical models at the core of physical education programs and allowing space for local agency and the co-construction of practice. Starting from the premise that true MbP does not yet exist, the book makes a case for the term "pedagogical model" over alternatives such as curriculum model and instructional model, and explains how learners’ cognitive, social, affective and psychomotor needs should be organised in ways that are ...
A "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers the first novel in a new series centered on a team of unconventional private investigators called Forensic Instincts.
Cooperative Learning is a dynamic instructional model that can teach diverse content to students at different grade levels, with students working together in small, structured, heterogeneous groups to master subject content. It has a strong research tradition, is used frequently as a professional development tool in general education and is now emerging in physical education. This book defines Cooperative Learning in physical education and examines how to implement Cooperative Learning in a variety of educational settings. It explores Cooperative Learning in physical education from three main perspectives. The first, context of learning, provides descriptions of Cooperative Learning in diffe...
This book introduces Cooperative Learning as a research-informed, practical way of engaging children and young people in lifelong physical activity. Written by authors with over 40 years’ experience as teachers and researchers, it addresses the practicalities of using Cooperative Learning in the teaching of physical education and physical activity at any age range. Cooperative Learning in Physical Education and Physical Activity will help teachers and students of physical education to master research-informed strategies for teaching. By using school-based and real-world examples, it allows teachers to quickly understand the educational benefits of Cooperative Learning. Divided into four pa...
A couple brought together and torn apart by the Vietnam War find each other again in California in this saga by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Casey Adams, a dedicated nurse, loses her heart overseas to idealistic officer Mac Carlin, heir to an immense fortune. Then tragedy strikes . . . Believing that Casey has died in an explosion, Mac returns grief-stricken to San Francisco to a life he never wanted. But Casey is still alive, keeping Mac in the dark after learning that he kept from her a shattering secret. Once home, Casey finds healing in the hands and heart of a brilliant plastic surgeon and forges ahead under a new name and with a new career. But fate charts a collision co...
There is evidence of considerable growth in the availability and use of digital technologies in physical education. Yet, we have scant knowledge about how technologies are being used by teachers, and whether or how these technologies are optimising student learning. This book makes a novel contribution by focusing on the ways in which teachers and teacher educators are attempting to use digital technologies in PE. The book has been created using the innovative ‘pedagogical cases’ framework. Each case centres on a narrative, written by a PE practitioner, explaining how and why technology is used in their practice to advance and accelerate learning. Each practitioner narrative is then anal...
Lonely! Bullied! Ashley needs a friend... Kipnapped! All alone in the world! Monkey needs a friend... A fateful meeting on Copacabana Beach brings Ashley and Monkey together and a partnership develops as they travel back to England and face the future together.
Lacy Owens has come back to Tennessee for a return to the fold, only she’s done so on the heels of Jeremiah Ladd. The prodigal son of Ladd Springs, a mecca of natural springs, streams and trails in the eastern Tennessee mountains, he’s determined to reclaim the property as his rightful inheritance. Lacy cares little about Jeremiah’s plan. She simply yearns for the comfort of family. Sister Annie Owens wants nothing to do with Lacy, but sees opportunity in Jeremiah’s return. With him in town she can finally prove paternity for her daughter Casey, and ultimately stake her claim in Ladd Springs. Trouble is, Jeremiah’s father has already willed the property to his granddaughter, Felici...
A listing of alumni that attended the Fabius Pompey Central School 1892 to 2019
Soon… Survivors struggle for air following the rapid depletion of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen. After a frantic but doomed attempt to stop the unparalleled ecological disaster, Max Ziegfeldt – a wealthy philanthropist – strikes out across a wasteland of his own creation. Death and insanity accompany him as he encounters his victims, forcing him to face the depths of his guilt. Terrifying visions push Max forward until he encounters a group of teenagers who’ve taken refuge in a domed greenhouse. His dark path ultimately puts him on a collision course with fate when he decides to take control of the garden; a place he’s come to believe is Eden on Earth.