Coaching Motor Learning, Fitness and Development for Young Children

Coaching Motor Learning, Fitness and Development for Young Children presents an introduction to understanding a child's world of motor learning, fitness and development. This new edition delivers a foundational approach and perspective and provides a viewpoint of movement knowledge, and movement skills as children experience, mature, and explore movement through their developmental years. This foundational and fundamental approach connects the relevancy and specificity in acquiring and delivering motor skills that children develop in the age and stage progression of movement activities.

This reader-handbook, Coaching Motor Learning, Fitness and Development for Young Children, contains a classroom activity guide, a clear and consistent, side-by-side classroom reader, and lecture handbook.

Designed for all students in their university preparation, this reader-handbook explores and delivers a coaching emphasis in movement education serving many college and university core and elective courses in the areas of child development, nutrition, and fitness.