Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools (EPUB)

For those who wish to encourage healthy, active lifestyles in schools—not only during physical education sessions, but throughout the school day—Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools is the perfect resource. In addition to providing instructors with a wide range of curricular and extracurricular possibilities to increase their students’ physical activity levels, this book offers a comprehensive viewpoint on physical activity and the tools and resources necessary to implement it.

Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools provides instructors with evidence-based, research-informed strategies to expand their physical activity promotion in school settings. These strategies are based on global health studies. Teachers will learn the following from this text:

Proven hands-on learning exercises that support students of all ages in leading active, healthy lives

• Detailed explanations of the evidence and contemporary thinking supporting the useful concepts and exercises, assisting educators in completely understanding the breadth and depth of the subject matter

• Developmentally appropriate practices to track students’ fitness, activity, and health at school, both individually and as a group (helping instructors measure improvement)

• Best practices that help teachers relate to the material and assist their students in applying it in real-world situations, as demonstrated by a variety of case studies

An Online Tool to Support Education and Execution

The web resource resources for Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools include case studies, worksheets, quizzes, and assessment tools for tracking students and school-based programs at the individual, cohort, and school-wide levels. These printable resources, which may be used exactly as is or modified, will help educators better understand the health and physical activity levels of their students over the long and short terms and support them in putting activity-promoting strategies into practice.

Engaging Activities Across the Curriculum

The book purposefully discusses curriculum requirements for physical education classes as well as other disciplines, and it offers expectations and recommendations for the entire school and across curricula. Additionally, it looks at extracurricular activities and provides suggestions for interacting with parents, guardians, and local providers of physical activity.

School-Related and Extracurricular Activities

Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools offers a wide variety of activities that can be done both inside and outside of school facilities, in keeping with its all-encompassing approach. Schools that want to utilize the resources in their immediate surroundings will be especially interested in these community-based programs. The case studies assist teachers in imagining how they can carry out the activities, and the book offers school models and activities that are appropriate for a variety of situations.

Encouraging and Tracking Activities

Three sections make up Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools. The need of encouraging healthy, active lifestyles in schools is explained in Part I, which also makes clear the role that teachers in general and physical education in particular play in this regard. Part II focuses on how schools can monitor children’s health, activity, and fitness and how this might teach students the value of maintaining these qualities in their daily life. Part III discusses how all kids, even those with disabilities and those with diseases like obesity, diabetes, and asthma, can lead active, healthy lives. This section of the book offers a variety of inclusive, progressive, and developmentally appropriate health-related learning activities for students of various ages.

Creating a Beneficial Impact

By giving them the information, abilities, competence, and self-assurance to lead physically active lives, the useful suggestions and exercises in Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools will assist educators in improving the health, happiness, and quality of life of their students. The book can be used by schools to integrate this crucial component into the curriculum in a methodical, step-by-step way that is understandable by all students.