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This book provides physical education teachers and coaches a blueprint for teaching and sport instruction, based on a blend of practical suggestions and contemporary research in teaching sport and physical activity. Readers should learn the key techniques and strategies that all successful teachers and coaches use to help their students and athletes learn and achieve success. Key features include end-of-chapter discussion questions and 12 appendices that give the reader samples of lesson plans, take-home practice diaries, teacher-student ""contracts"", observation forms and PE web sites to reproduce and customise.

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Paul Schempp, EdD, is a teacher first and foremost. He loves teaching and continually strives to find ways to improve--a quest that has led to his extensive research on instructional expertise in physical education and a variety of sports. Known worldwide for his research in the pedagogy of sport and physical education, he has served on the faculty of five different universities in three different countries and has presented the results of his research in 18 countries. Schempp currently heads the department of physical education and sport studies at the University of Georgia and directs the university's Sport Instruction Research Laboratory. He also has served as a senior Fulbright research scholar in Germany, as a member of the National Education Advisory Board for the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), and as a technical consultant to the Swedish National Golf Team. As the scientific consultant on instruction to Golf Magazine, he also assists in the annual selection of America's top 100 golf instructors. Schempp holds an EdD in human movement studies from Boston University. A resident of Athens, Georgia, he enjoys spending his free time playing golf, fly fishing, and scuba diving.

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