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Getman, G. N. – Academic Therapy, 1983
The author criticizes the lack of opportunity given to children to learn the motor patterns involved in handwriting and describes a sequence of chalkboard activities to promote the perceptual motor skills required. Illustrations of the sequence are provided. (CL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Handwriting, Motor Development
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Ziegler, Susan G. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2002
Reviews traditional approaches to teaching motor skills and introduces the concept of stimulus cuing, a model of attentional focus, and the importance of attentional shifting, also discussing factors that interfere with a performer's ability to focus attention and making suggestions regarding how to use attentional focusing as an effective…
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Elementary Secondary Education, Motor Development
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Withers, Alma F. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1984
Clogging is a rhythmic dance that children enjoy watching and doing. This article discusses the history of clogging and suggests eight basic steps to be used in the physical education class. Clogging resources are included. (DF)
Descriptors: Dance Education, Elementary Education, Folk Culture, History
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Marlowe, Mike – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1980
Games analysis process is a process whereby teachers of handicapped students can design games to accommodate individual motoric differences, as well as to promote specific behavioral outcomes such as cooperation. (SBH)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Development, Games
Hick, Sandra – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1979
The successful development of a basic movement program depends on the teacher's ability to recognize and to work effectively with varying levels of student motor and cognitive proficiency. (LH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Gymnastics
Nelson, Esther L. – Day Care and Early Education, 1979
Argues that children can dance before they can talk and discusses how teachers can encourage this innate talent. (MP)
Descriptors: Dance, Early Childhood Education, Motor Development, Movement Education
Tulloch, Deborah – 1984
It is suggested that curricula for young multiply handicapped children should be based on well articulated child development models which specify milestones to be demonstrated as well as contexts in which they will be demonstrated. It is further suggested that the criterion of ultimate functioning should also be considered in choosing one design…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Motor Development, Multiple Disabilities, Sensory Integration
Buis, Joyce M.; Schane, Catherine S. – Practical Pointers, 1980
Background, rationale, and techniques for using movement exploration to teach preswimming skills to developmentally delayed persons are given. Objectives (beyond the primary one of safety) of such a program include body awareness, spatial awareness, movement, and perceptual motor functions. Guidelins for activity selection and adaptation are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Motor Development, Movement Education
Sorrell, Howard M. – Practical Pointers, 1979
The article describes tasks that promote perceptual motor coordination in handicapped students. An introductory section provides suggestions for implementation and charts the activities in terms of emphasis on visual tracking, visual discrimination and/or copying of forms, spatial body perception, fine motor coordination, tactile discrimination,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Learning Activities, Motor Development, Perceptual Motor Coordination
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Stevens, Deborah A. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1994
The movement concept approach to teaching elementary physical education provides challenges that require children to use all their resources to respond, enhancing total development through cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Worksheets can help teachers determine whether movement concepts are being learned and generalized to other…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach, Motor Development
Hall, John; And Others – 1982
Developed as part of the Physical Education In-Service Training Project of the University of Kentucky, this manual is designed to help special education teachers and adapted physical education teachers promote the motor and play skills of handicapped students through planned activities. Content areas of the manual were identified as "greatest…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Games
Chambless, Jim R.; And Others – 1980
Intended for physical education teachers of the handicapped, teacher educators at teacher training institutions, and research workers in areas of the handicapped, the document reports the effects of a theoretical model of teaching psychomotor tasks on the motor behavior of mentally retarded children. Chapter 1 introduces a psychomotor teaching…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Mastery Learning, Mental Retardation, Models
Sorrell, Howard M. – Practical Pointers, 1978
A circuit approach and station techniques are used to depict perceptual motor games for handicapped and nonhandicapped children. Twenty activities are described in terms of objectives, materials, and procedures, and their focus on visual tracking, visual discrimination and copying of forms, spatial body perception, fine motor coordination, tactile…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Depth Perception, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Watkinson, E. J.; Wall, A. E. – 1979
The document provides information on the PREP Program for young moderately mentally retarded children, a program which offers individualized instruction in selected play skills, small group activity to facilitate the practice of play skills, and the encouragement of purposeful play within a stimulating free play environment. It is explained that…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Group Activities, Individualized Instruction, Moderate Mental Retardation
Grosse, Susan J. – Practical Pointers, 1981
Intended for teachers of students with severe multiple impairments, the booklet examines the role of physical activities in the education of this population and suggests approaches to exhancing their motor development. Suggestions are offered for stimulating movement in preschool, elementary, and secondary immobile children, including tactile…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Motor Development
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