Assessments are a part of a physical educator's daily life. But most teachers struggle to find enough time to analyze their curriculum and develop assessments to track students' learning.

Enter Elementary Physical Education Teaching & Assessment: A Practical Guide, Second Edition. This guide is designed to make the assessment process not only easier but also more manageable. Assessment becomes not a burden in a teacher's life but an essential teaching tool that assists students in learning what they need to learnand indeed can motivate and challenge them to take charge of their learning.

This book, greatly expanded and revised from its original publication as Teaching for Outcomes in Elementary Physical Education, will help teachers

- plan and implement school- or district-wide curriculum based on the latest NASPE (National Association for Sport and Physical Education) Standards (2004);
- create their own assessment tools;
- understand, develop, and use alternative methods of assessment;
- assess program effectiveness and students' progress toward understanding and acquisition of movement and fitness concepts and skills; and
- design and use rubrics for each assessment task.

In addition, teachers using this guide will learn to
- streamline and manage their day-to-day assessment tasks and paperwork, applying the technology most suited to assist them;
- interpret and communicate assessment results effectively; and
- make assessments an integrated part of their program.

In Elementary Physical Education Teaching & Assessment: A Practical Guide, Second Edition, teachers will discover tips for handling paperwork, tools for communicating with parents, and practical guidance on coordinating teaching and assessment and dealing with grading issues. In addition, they will find more sample rubrics, more assessment tasks, and more curriculum ideas. Dozens of reproducibles complete the most comprehensive and practical book available on assessment in elementary physical education.

Presents all the necessary facts and figures, content and concepts, in a diagrammatic way. This visual approach helps students to understand and remember information. The book can be used as a teaching aid to introduce/conclude class topics, or by students at home, particularly at revision time.

Legendary UCLA coach John Wooden once said, People say Morgan Wootten is the best high school basketball coach in the country. I disagree. I know of no finer coach at any levelhigh school, college, or pro.

Morgan Wootten has retired from coaching, but his knowledge of the game remains unsurpassed and keen as ever. Coaching Basketball Successfully contains a wealth of Woottens timeless wisdom. And, in this third edition, Wootten adds even more valuethe coaching experiences, methods, and tactics of his son Joe, a successful high school coach himself.

Loaded with insights, instruction, drills, and Xs and Os, Coaching Basketball Successfully is the best single resource on making the most of your program, team, and players each season.

Sport is a growing industry with enormous numbers of people now involved in the management and administration of sports, fitness and exercise. Whether voluntary, public or commercial sectors, all can benefit by improving the practice and delivery of the management of sport and its organisations. This text is designed to help all those delivering sport to deliver it better and includes:

· What's different and special about sports management?
· The voluntary sector
· Event management and marketing
· Marketing, fundraising and sponsorship
· Managing staff and volunteers
· Organisational management principles
· Legal issues including health and safety
· Case studies - both local and national.

Full of practical examples this book reveals sports management in action, showing how good management helps us to deliver better sports participation, at all levels.

This book is a must for undergraduates as well as an invaluable tool for professionals in sport management and administration in the private public and voluntary sectors.

Corrective and functional exercise is a rapidly advancing field. Exercise is an essential factor in all injury recovery, conditioning and performance, and if used correctly can play a preventative role in injury management. In the injured athlete, gym user or armchair athlete, corrective exercise can help to restore range of motion, re-build strength, endurance and power, re-establish neuromuscular control and balance, and provide positive progress for a specific sport or a healthier lifestyle.

Written by an experienced specialist in the field of rehabilitative and performance exercise, this book provides an essential practical guide to corrective and functional exercise for every sports therapist and fitness trainer, particularly those taking diplomas or NVQs at level 3. Packed with photos and illustrations, and full of accessible step-by-step explanations of the latest rehabilitative methods, every corrective and functional technique is covered in detail, from initial consultation to whole body exercises.

Developing dominating offensive linemen is Rick Trickett's specialty. His accomplishments speak for themselves: 4 first-round draft selections, 20 NFL players, 13 All-Americans, and more than 30 all-conference selections. Now with Complete Offensive Line, he's created the most in-depth guide ever on offensive line play.

Today's linemen must have skill, strength, power, quickness, agility, and intelligence to excel at the position. That is why Complete Offensive Line presents it all-from footwork and hand positioning to pulling and cutbacks.

In this one-of-a-kind guide, Trickett takes you onto the practice field and into the trenches to learn these skills, among others:

* Pass protection

* Run blocking

* Man and zone blocking

* Combination blocks

* Blitz pickup

* Recognition of defensive sets such as 4-3, 3-4, and stack

* Strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities against any defensive set

* Techniques and schemes for formations such as spread, option, and the run and shoot

With the most effective drills, skill evaluation, line play assessments, scheme suggestions, and unparalleled coaching advice from one of the best in the game, Complete Offensive Line is simply the definitive book on football's most demanding position.

Rick Trickett was hired as the offensive line and assistant head coach at Florida State University in 2008. He is regarded by most as the guru of developing offensive linemen. No other current or past offensive line coach has trained more players who have gone on to win all-conference and All-American honors.

Coaching Stops:

1973 Glenville (linebackers coach)

1974-75 Indiana, PA (linebackers coach)

1976-77 West Virginia (defensive line coach)

1978-79 West Virginia (offensive line coach)

1980-81 Southern Illinois (offensive line coach)

1982-85 Southern Mississippi (offensive line coach)

1985 New Mexico (offensive line coach)

1986-88 Memphis (offensive line coach)

1989-92 Mississippi State (offensive line coach)

1993-98 Auburn (offensive line coach)

1999 Glenville State (head coach)

2000 LSU (assistant head coach and offensive line coach)

2001-06 West Virginia (assistant head coach and offensive line coach)

Accomplishments:

* Four players drafted in the first round in a six-year span at Auburn

Victor Riley (Chiefs No. 1 Draft Choice in 1998)

Willie Anderson (Bengals No. 1 Draft Choice in 1996)

Wayne Gandy (Rams No. 1 Draft Choice in 1994)

Kendall Simmons (Steelers No. 1 Draft Choice in 2001)

* More than 20 former players in the NFL

* Six All-American offensive linemen in his career

* 30 players with all-conference honors

* 13 players named either first or second team freshmen All-Americans