Team Building Through Physical Challenges: A Complete Toolkit - Softcover

Leigh Ann Anderson; Daniel M Midura; Donald R Glover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492566926 ISBN 13: 9781492566922

Publisher: Human Kinetics, Inc., 2019

Synopsis

Teamwork is critical to the success of any group. Whether that be students, athletes or business people. Team Building Through Physical Challenges, 2nd Edition takes a proactive approach to building teams as it explains the concepts of team building. This essential guide features 67 ready-to-use activities and challenges for introductory, intermediate and advanced levels. Presented in a clear and practical format, the activities help develop the social and emotional skills needed for successful team building. Each activity includes setup, rules, equipment needs and variations for each challenge. New updates to this second edition include updated content on implementing activities, a new emphasis on social and emotional learning and a new web resource. The web resource offers video clips showing team building in action. As well as reproducible forms to make implementation easier. Team Building Through Physical Challenges is the only book of team-building activities that focus on physical challenges. Through the clear instruction and guidance on team building, challenging activities and web resource, participants learn how to become respectful competitors, valuable problem solvers and selfless leaders.

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About the Author

Leigh Anderson currently teaches in Minnesota, where she applies many of the concepts in her books. In addition to her elementary classroom and intervention experience, Leigh taught at graduate level in teaching and learning. This is the third book Leigh has coauthored that deals with best practices in education. She has also presented both nationally and internationally on the subject. Leigh holds a bachelor s degree in elementary education and a master s degree in curriculum and instruction. Daniel Midura is a former physical education specialist and coordinator in Minnesota. Now retired, Midura worked in the field for more than 40 years. In that time, he presented at more than 200 conferences and workshops and coauthored four books. Midura was named the Minnesota Physical Education Teacher of the Year in 1994 and has received a number of other teaching awards and honours. Donald Glover has taught physical education since 1967. He has taught at preschool, elementary and high school levels. He currently teaches adaptive physical education methods at the University of Wisconsin. In 1981, Glover was recognised as Minnesota s Teacher of the Year and was named Minnesota Adapted Physical Education Teacher of the Year in 1989. He has written eight books, published numerous magazine and journal articles and been a clinician at more than 100 workshops and clinics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Human Kinetics, Inc.
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1492566926
• ISBN 13: 9781492566922
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 216