Samenvatting

At the Assin Newtown International School and the Newtown Experimental School was no physical education until November 2007. In the year 2007, the Ghana Education Service made a reform. This reform says that physical education should be taught at every primary and junior high school. A syllabus gave the objectives and topics to teach. The authors of this teacher textbook wrote a thesis and did research about how to make physical education sustainable at the Newtown Schools. The results, conclusions and recommendations of this thesis leaded to a textbook about how to teach PE.

This textbook is based on interviews, conversations, observations, experiences, the Ghanaian PE syllabus and literature. It is a textbook meant for the PE teacher and the school. There is a lot of information about physical education in it. It is easy to read and it consists of a lot of examples. This book if full of information about how to accomplish the objectives. These objectives are written in a second book, which is called the guideline, also specially made for the Newtown Schools. In the teacher textbook the teacher will also find rules and information about the different topics and activities which should be taught during PE. The two books (guidebook and textbook) now, make it more easy to teach PE at the Newtown Schools.

The textbook starts with information about how to teach. Some didactics and methods of teaching are explained in chapter 1. In chapter 2 organizations tips and tricks are given for every kind of sport. In the next chapters different activities are explained, with rules, techniques and tips about teaching, all to gain the specific objectives. Chapter 3,4 and 5 contains information about athletics. This activity is divided in jumping, running and throwing. Chapter 6 is all about games, like football, volleyball, tennis, netball, handball and wrestling. More information about gymnastics is found in chapter 7 and chapter 8 will explain about dance.

This textbook can help the physical education teacher with preparing and planning his/her lessons. The book contents only a bit of the information known about sports, so the PE teacher is free to use other resources to prepare his/her lesson.