The National Recreation and Parks Association

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Integrated Risk Management for Leisure Services provides both students and professionals with a systematic approach to safety. By integrating risk management, accident prevention, and emergency response with information on legal liability, Integrated Risk Management for Leisure Services enables leisure service providers to implement strategies to reduce or eliminate bodily injury, property damage, and financial loss.

Integrated Risk Management for Leisure Services uses a four-phase integrated risk management model. The first three phases focus on negligence, the accident process, and risk management plans to reduce or eliminate injury, damage, or loss. The fourth phase focuses on what to do after an incident occurs to reduce the impact of injury, damage, or loss.

Integrated Risk Management for Leisure features several unique aspects for students and professionals in the recreation and park field. It covers safety prevention and accident processes in the recreation and parks field. Then it addresses how to manage the post-incident situation to reduce impacts. Last, the text integrates these two new areas with the traditional areas of legal liability and risk management planning in an effort to provide safer recreation and park programs.

This text presents fresh insights on leadership from the most prominent voices in the field today. The contributors present a comprehensive look at modern leadership, identify the challenges future leaders will face, and reveal how future leaders can best prepare to meet those challenges.

Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Services provides

* a detailed look at the collaborative approach to leadership in leisure services that represents a new direction in the field;

* insight into classical leadership as well as innovative and modern leadership theory and best practices; and

* an understanding of the roles and functions students will fulfill as they enter the profession.

The material, designed for undergraduate recreation and leisure services leadership courses, is presented in three parts. Part I explores personal leadership issues, including communication skills, negotiation strategies, and leadership styles. Part II delves into professional leadership, examining topics such as group dynamics, supervision practices, and team leadership. Part III explores organizational leadership, including internal and external leadership and professional development.

The authors present new theories of leadership from research in the field of recreation and leisure. Several learning aids—including chapter-opening scenarios, key terms, glossary, references, and chapter-ending questions for reflection and discussion—appear throughout the text. In addition, each chapter features a Leisure Leaders sidebar that profiles a leader in the field who addresses preparation for the job, a peek at day-to-day work, and advice for aspiring leaders. And a Best Practices sidebar showcases an organization whose innovative leadership has led to positive organizational outcomes.

Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Services helps students understand the range of leadership skills they need to develop for successful careers.

Management of Park and Recreation Agencies, 5th Edition , is sponsored by the Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies (CAPRA) in order to share with professionals - now and in the future - the desirable practices of the profession embodied in the National Accreditation Standards for park and recreation agencies. These standards are used as the guideline for what should be included in the book. Each chapter addresses specific standards needed for accreditation.

The purpose of this book is to help administrators of every are of parks and recreation, including those in for-profit, nonprofit, commercial and public operations. The emphasis is on public park and recreation agencies because those are the agencies for which the standards were written. However, each standard can be used by any agency that provides park and recreation facilities, programs, or services. It is geared to managers and what they need to know, not to the program or maintenance supervisors.

This product is an ebook and does not include a physical copy of the text. The ebook is available for online viewing only and cannot be downloaded.

Management of Park and Recreation Agencies, 5th Edition , is sponsored by the Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies (CAPRA) in order to share with professionals - now and in the future - the desirable practices of the profession embodied in the National Accreditation Standards for park and recreation agencies. These standards are used as the guideline for what should be included in the book. Each chapter addresses specific standards needed for accreditation.

The purpose of this book is to help administrators of every are of parks and recreation, including those in for-profit, nonprofit, commercial and public operations. The emphasis is on public park and recreation agencies because those are the agencies for which the standards were written. However, each standard can be used by any agency that provides park and recreation facilities, programs, or services. It is geared to managers and what they need to know, not to the program or maintenance supervisors.

This product is an ebook and does not include a physical copy of the text. The ebook is available for online viewing only and cannot be downloaded.

Remember the days when, with very little equipment and just a few kids, you could have an endless amount of fun playing games?

Those days are back. And Physical Education for Homeschool, Classroom, and Recreation Settings: 102 Games With Variations adds a twist to those fun games: They are educational as well.

The 102 games and 10 dance and gymnastics activities in this book are specifically designed for small-group settings. They’re great for

* parents who homeschool or who simply want to supplement their children’s PE instruction and have fun with their kids;

* physical education teachers in small-school settings or who break their class into smaller groups; and

* leaders of after-school, recreation, intramural, and recess programs.

While the settings may change, the results don’t: Children learn skills and healthy concepts while playing games that keep them coming back for more.

Physical Education for Homeschool, Classroom, and Recreation Settings offers the following:

* Games and activities that are ready-made, easy and fun to play, and grounded in research

* Yearly lesson plans for grades K-5, making it easy for you to teach

* Games that are grounded in American Academy of Pediatrics research on the importance of play, the Canadian Sport for Life model, physical literacy, and the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach

The TGfU approach helps children learn interpersonal, social reasoning, and problem-solving skills, which they can apply to multiple situations. And as they take part in the fun physical activities, kids develop fundamental abilities and learn how to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle through regular physical activity.

The book includes a game finder to help you see what skills and equipment are involved for each game. Photos, illustrations, and easy-to-use components help make the games simple to teach, and you’ll be shown how to modify each game as needed for your children and to ensure the game applies to different sports. Each game ends with questions that lead to understanding the skills and concepts applied during the game.

Physical Education for Homeschool, Classroom, and Recreation Settings includes

* warm-up, cool-down, and fitness games;

* target, territory invasion, and net and wall games;

* dribbling, striking, and fielding games; and

* dance and gymnastics activities.

Whether you are looking for a useful PE book for your homeschooler or looking to supplement your physical education program, recreation program, or after-school or intramural program, this book is a great find.