Book Description
Teaching Team Sports isn't just another sport skills book. It's a how-to manual that shows teachers how to analyze and present sport skills by breaking them down into fundamental body movements. Once students master the fundamental movement skills--such as running, jumping, and throwing--they can use those skills to perform all sports.
About the Author
Dr. Joan A. Philipp and Dr. Jerry D. Wilkerson bring 25 years of teaching experience together with 11 years of sport technique research in a comprehensive, practical text that puts team sports back into the physical education curriculum.
Dr. Philipp is a professor of health and physical education at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio. She taught at the secondary level for 10 years and has supervised student teachers and taught methods class to prospective teachers for many years. She has coached 17 years of basketball, field hockey, softball, volleyball, and swimming, both interscholastic and intercollegiate teams. Through her experience, Dr. Philipp found a need for a current, comprehensive text to provide basic knowledge, teaching progressions, and constructive class organizational plans for middle and high school physical educators.
Dr. Wilkerson is an associate professor of physical education at Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. She has been a teacher at all levels (K through graduate collegiate), a coach for high school and college sports, and a university biomechanics researcher for 12 years. It is Dr. Wilkerson's teaching/coaching experience that led her to study sport techniques and fundamental movement. She has authored over 20 research publications on sport techniques and made over 30 presentations on sport techniques and teaching applications.
