Don+Hellison

Don spent 16 years doing this work on the west coast and has been at the University of Illinois at Chicago for the past 15 years. He was awarded the International Olympic Committee President's Prize in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1995 and has received five national awards since that time in recognition of this work. His latest book, with the National Youth Leader Partnership he formed several years ago, is Hellison & Cutforth et al., "Youth Development and Physical Activity: Linking Universities and Communities," published in 2000 by Human Kinetics. __University of Illinois at Chicago__
 * Don Hellison ** is a professor in the School of Kinesiology at UIC, directs The Urban Youth Leader Project for underserved children and youth in Chicago. This role involves program development, delivery, and evaluation as well as the professional preparation of pre-service teachers and youth workers who work in these programs. These programs use taking responsibility as a framework for teaching physical activities before and after school (in-school programs are also provided on occasion). Three broad goals that go beyond the purposes of traditional sport and exercise programs provide direction for all programs: self-responsibility for one's effort and self-direction, social responsibility for respecting the rights and feelings of others and for being sensitive and responsive to the needs of others, and group responsibility for teamwork and group betterment. Several strategies -- including conflict resolution, required cooperation built into the activities, peer and cross-age coaching, group meetings to evaluate and improve the program, and self-reflection journals at the end of each lesson -- are employed to help participants take personal, social, and group responsibility. Processes and outcomes are disseminated in publications, presentations, and teacher and youth worker workshops, most recently in New Zealand, England, and Spain.



//For a closer look at the strategies and principles associated with the model, Don Hellison's in an book easy practical read. Many teachers and students have been and applying these **strategies**, and adaptions of these strategies into their gyms or classroom programmes. For the primary teacher the ability to **transfer** the strategies and apply them to other areas of the curriculum becomes a creative and worthwhile challenge. This is especially true when students are empowered to develop their own **critical and creative thinking** to apply these themselves//

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