Ang Chen, Ph.D.

Courses

At UNCG

KIN 455: Practicum in Teaching Fitness and Physical Activity

This course is for seniors majoring in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) majors to acquire teaching experiences in children’s and adolescents’ physical activity settings with special emphasis on designing, planning, and integrating health-related physical fitness. The course offers PETE majors educational content for children and adolescents to effectively learn physical activity and fitness concepts for healthful living. Students learn to plan and implement developmentally appropriate teaching strategies and techniques that can be used in school and community programs to enhance children and adolescents knowledge and value of physical activities. Students also study to follow principles and guidelines of planning, implementing, and maintaining quality physical activity programs.

KIN 611 Research Methods in Kinesiology

The graduate course is designed as an introduction to research methodology in kinesiology. It focuses on concepts and methods for conducting evidence-based inquiries. The content includes but is not limited to conducting effective literature review, formulating meaningful research questions, using quality research design and methodologies for gathering quality evidence, preserving data validity / reliability (trustworthiness), following ethics standards in kinesiological research, writing effectively for research proposals and thesis, and submitting and publishing research reports.

ESS 656 Psycho-Social Aspects of Physical Education and Sport

The course is designed for graduate students, especially those in Pedagogical Studies, to enhance understanding of social and psychological factors that influence instructional interactions and the perceptions of teachers, coaches and students. The specific theoretical perspective that guides the course is achievement motivation theory. Achievement motivation issues in sport, exercise, and physical education settings will be explored through a broad spectrum of perspectives including social-cultural and pedagogical factors.

Courses Taught in Previous Institutions

• Methods in Physical Education
• Instructional Planning in Physical Education
  
• Teaching Fitness Concepts and Physical Activity
  
• Practicum in Teaching Physical Education
  
• Elementary School Physical Education: A Movement Approach
  
• Test and Measurement in Physical Education
  
• Curriculum Design in Physical Education

• Curriculum Theories in Physical Education
• Curriculum Issues in Physical Education
• Cultural Perspectives in Curriculum Development in Physical Education
  
• Research on Teaching in Physical Education
• Achievement Motivation in Physical Activity
• Program Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice in Physical Education
• Special Program – Study Abroad
• Dissecting Martial Arts (Wu Shu) in contemporary China