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Improving Learning in Physical Education identifies some key challenges in physical education that impact on pupils' learning, looking at how they manifest over time and suggesting what teachers can do to address them.
List of contents
Introduction
Susan Capel, Joanne Cliffe, Julia Lawrence Chapter 1 Challenge related to reflective practice: helping teachers to reflect
Paul McFlynnChapter 2 Challenge related to pupil learning: helping pupils to learn effectively
Julia LawrenceChapter 3 Challenge related to progression and continuity in the curriculum: curriculum development to support pupil progress
Susan Capel and Julia Lawrence Chapter 4 Challenge related to assessment: developing effective assessment in lessons
Joanne Cliffe and Katie PotterChapter 5 Challenge related to use of feedback: using feedback for effective learning in lessons
Joanne Cliffe and Katie PotterChapter 6 Challenge related to motivation: enhancing the motivational climate for year 10 girls
Victoria Clements and Kevin MorganChapter 7 Challenge related to managing behaviour: using behaviour for learning in lessons
Joanne Cliffe and Chris EwingChapter 8 Challenge related to promoting learning in the physical domain: developing physical competence - curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
Richard Blair and Neve BlairChapter 9 Challenge related to promoting learning in the cognitive domain: developing pupils' declarative knowledge and thinking
Julia Lawrence Chapter 10 Challenge related to promoting learning in the affective domain: meeting the emotional needs of pupils
Kate Bancroft and George KinkeadChapter 11 Challenge related to inclusion, special educational needs and disabilities: supporting hard-of-hearing pupils in a mainstream specifically resourced provision in their physical education lessons
Rebecca Foster and Alice SmythChapter 12 Challenge related to enacting trauma-informed practice
Oliver Hooper, Vincent Coleman, Rachel Sandford, Thomas Quarmby and Shirley GrayChapter 13 Challenge related to pupil participation in physical activity outside lessons: what can be done in physical education that might increase young people's participation in physical activity and sport beyond school
Ken Green, Daragh O'Hare, Suzy Twist and Hannah VecchioneChapter 14 Challenge related to my own context: identifying and addressing challenges in my own teaching
Julia Lawrence
About the author
Susan Capel is a Professor Emerita at Brunel University, London, where she was the Head of the School of Sport and Education.
Joanne Cliffe is a freelance researcher. Her background is in teaching secondary physical education and then higher education as an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham.
Julia Lawrence is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, Secondary Lead Mentor for Scarborough Teaching Alliance and Subject Lead for Physical Education with Exchange Teacher Training.
