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Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools is ideal for those who want to promote healthy, active lifestyles in schoolsnot just during physical education classes, but throughout the school day. This book presents a holistic perspective on physical activity, exposing teachers to a broad spectrum of curricular and noncurricular opportunities to enhance their pupils engagement with physical activity, as well as the tools and resources to do it.

Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools offers research-informed, evidence-based practices (built on health-related studies from around the world) that will help teachers broaden their physical activity promotion in school-based environments. Through this text, teachers will receive the following:

Tried-and-true practical learning activities that help pupils of all ages lead healthy, active lifestyles

Clear explanations of the current thinking and evidence underpinning the practical ideas and activities, helping teachers fully grasp the content and depth of the material

Developmentally appropriate procedures to monitor childrens health, activity and fitness in school, both as individuals and within a cohort (thus helping teachers quantify progress made)

Best practices, illustrated through a diverse range of case studies, to help teachers connect with the information and help their pupils apply it in real life

Web Resource to Aid Learning and Implementation

Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools comes with web resource materials, including quizzes, worksheets, case studies and assessment measures for monitoring children and school-based initiatives on individual, cohort and schoolwide levels. These tools, which are printable and can be used as is or adapted, will help teachers gain a broader understanding of their pupils levels of health and physical activityfrom both short-term and long-term perspectivesand assist them in implementing activity-promoting practices.

Activity Throughout the Curriculum

The text intentionally addresses curriculum requirementsnot just in physical education classes, but in other subjects as welland presents whole-school and cross-curricular recommendations and expectations. It also explores extracurricular opportunities and offers ideas for connecting with parents, caregivers and community physical activity providers.

Activities in School and Beyond

Keeping with its holistic approach, Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools supplies a diverse range of activities that can be undertaken both within and beyond school buildings. These community-based activities will be of particular interest to schools that would like to take advantage of resources in their surrounding environment. The book presents activities and school models that suit a range of contexts, and the case studies help teachers conceptualize how they can implement the activities.

Promoting and Monitoring Activity

Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools is presented in three parts. Part I explains why the promotion of healthy, active lifestyles is important in schools and clarifies the role that educators in general, and in physical education in particular, have here. Part II focuses on how childrens health, activity and fitness can be monitored in schools and how this can help pupils learn the importance of being healthy, active and fit in their everyday lives. Part III addresses how all children can have healthy, active lifestyles, including pupils with varying abilities and those with health conditions such as asthma, diabetes and obesity. This part of the book presents a range of health-related learning activities for pupils of different ages that are developmentally appropriate, inclusive and progressive.

Making a Positive Difference

The practical ideas and activities in Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools will help teachers make a positive difference in the health, well-being and quality of life of their pupils by equipping them with the knowledge, skills, competence and confidence to engage in physically active lifestyles. Schools can use the book to incorporate this important element into the curriculum in a planned and progressive manner that is accessible to all pupils.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names Harris Jo 1955- - photo 1

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Harris, Jo, 1955- author. | Cale, Lorraine, author.

Title: Promoting active lifestyles in schools / Jo Harris, PhD,

Loughborough University, Lorraine Cale, PhD, Loughborough University.

Description: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2019] | Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017021054 (print) | LCCN 2017055556 (ebook) | ISBN

9781492560678 (e-book) | ISBN 9781492533818 (print)

Subjects: LCSH: Physical education and training--Study and teaching--United

States. | Health education--Study and teaching--United States. | Physical

education for children--United States. | Activity programs in

education--United States.

Classification: LCC GV361 (ebook) | LCC GV361 .H37 2018 (print) | DDC

372.86--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017021054

ISBN: 978-1-4925-3381-8 (print)

Copyright 2019 by Jo Harris and Lorraine Cale

All rights reserved. Except for use in a review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying, and recording, and in any information storage and retrieval system, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

The web addresses cited in this text were current as of July 2017, unless otherwise noted.

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We thank the Mountfields Lodge Primary School in Loughborough and Hamilton College in Leicester for assistance in providing the locations for the photo shoots for this book.

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We would like to thank the many teachers and trainee teachers who trialled and helped to develop practical ideas in this book. We are also grateful to the staff, pupils and parents of Mountfields Lodge Primary School in Loughborough and Hamilton College in Leicester for allowing us to take photographs in their schools.

Contents
Preface

Helping children lead healthy, active lifestyles has become increasingly important as we have learned more about the ill-health consequences of sedentary living, as well as the current health status and low activity levels of a significant proportion of young people. In response to such concerns, school curricula around the world are placing increased emphasis on promoting healthy, active lifestyles. This book will help you and your school create such an emphasis and support you in your efforts to promote active lifestyles among young people.

More specifically, the book is designed to help you make a positive difference to your pupils health, well-being and quality of life by equipping them with the knowledge, skills, understanding, competence and confidence to engage in a physically active lifestyle. It will also help schools address this important element of the curriculum in a planned, progressive manner that is accessible to all pupils.

Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools is intended for all persons involved in promoting healthy, active lifestyles in schools: primary school teachers; secondary school teachers; personal, social, health and economic education coordinators; healthy-school coordinators; health, physical activity, physical education and sport coordinators in schools, local authorities and communities; health, physical activity, physical education and school sport consultants, advisers and providers of professional development; and primary and secondary school teacher educators.

Scope

In terms of breadth, the book addresses curriculum requirements (in both physical education and other subjects); whole-school and cross-curricular recommendations and expectations; extracurricular opportunities; and links with parents and physical activity providers in the community. It includes a diverse range of activities that can be undertaken both within and beyond school buildings. This range accommodates schools that can deliver lessons (in physical education and other subjects) in the surrounding environment beyond the classroom. In addition, it offers best-practice case studies to help you visualise and conceptualise how to implement practices that promote activity. Throughout, the books content is based on evidence and informed by research drawn from the findings of studies conducted by the authors and eminent researchers around the world.

Content Overview

Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools contains a mixture of practical ideas and activities, alongside explanations based on current thinking and evidence. It is structured in three parts. Part I explains the importance of promoting healthy, active lifestyles in schools and clarifies how schools in general, and physical education in particular, can do so. Part II focuses on how childrens health, activity and fitness can be monitored in schools and how this monitoring can help pupils learn the importance of being healthy, active and fit in their everyday lives. Part III addresses how children of all ability levels can be involved in a healthy, active lifestyle, including children with specific health conditions such as asthma, diabetes and obesity. It also presents a range of health-related learning activities for pupils of various ages that are developmentally appropriate, inclusive and progressive.

Specific features of the book include the following:

  • Practices based on evidence and informed by research on health-related pedagogies around the world
  • Practical learning activities that are tried and tested for helping pupils of all ages lead a healthy, active lifestyle
  • Clear explanations of the current thinking and evidence underpinning the practical ideas and activities
  • Developmentally appropriate procedures for monitoring childrens health, activity and fitness in schools
  • Best-practice case studies to help you visualise and conceptualise how the principles outlined in the book can be implemented using real-life practices that promote activity
How to Use the Web Resource

The web resource, found at www.HumanKinetics.com/PromotingActiveLifestylesInSchools, includes a variety of useful materials that you may either print and use as is or adapt to suit your needs. Specifically, you will find the following: a quiz addressing childrens health, activity and fitness recommendations; true-or-false statements associated with debunking myths and misconceptions about childrens health, activity and fitness; a parent information sheet (An Hour a Day Keeps the Doctor at Bay!); lifestyle case studies; health behaviour questionnaires; physical activity diaries; developmentally appropriate fitness tests; reflective questions; and worksheets for use with pupils of various age groups. These resources exemplify the pedagogical principles recommended in the book and will help you implement activity-promoting practices. The resource also includes a list of web links to help you learn more about the many initiatives and guidelines mentioned in the book.

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