TBC Promotes Bike Safety at PE Teachers’ Annual Convention
The Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and
Dance, otherwise known as TAHFERD (tay-ferd,) held its 84th annual
convention was at the Moody Gardens Convention Center in Galveston,
Texas. Nearly 3,000 PE teachers, student PE majors and college
kinesiology professors came to soak up the mild late November sunshine
and to catch up on their professional enrichment.
The Texas Bicycle Coalition (TBC) staff, Teacher Education Program
Director Brenda Chuleewah and Mark Stine, set up a booth in the
exposition hall. Attendees learned how they could become certified in
the SuperCyclist Curriculum through the 6-hour training offered
throughout Texas. The convention is a means for making contact with
interested teachers who are willing to host a class by providing a
classroom and gym (or outdoor parking lot). TBC provides the
highly-qualified field instructors, all the materials necessary to
teach the lessons in an organized curriculum binder and a healthy
continental breakfast. TAHPERD awards six continuing-education credits
to teachers completing the course.
Dr. Joel Bloom, TBC Field Instructor, presents the SuperCyclist Curriculum in Pasadena, TX
Twelve teachers from the Houston area enjoyed Dr. Bloom’s presentation
of the SuperCyclist Curriculum.The 6
hour bicycle safety course is designed to be fun, educational and interactive.Dr. Bloom adds to the training his own
personal riding experiences, telling the teachers about his trip to Scotland, where
cycling is the main mode of transportaion.The country was very bicycle friendly and the whole family rode.
A special thanks goes to Oscar Torres, the PE teacher from
Williams Elementary in Pasadena
for helping to bring the training to his area.He expressed a strong interest for the training at the summer TAHPERD
conference and led us to Pam Tevis the Pasadena
PE coordinator.Pam did a wonderful job in providing us an
air- conditioned gym at Park View Intermediate. We are able to demonstrate how the entire
training can be done in a gym with their students.
Camp Eagle was a beautiful location for the kick off of the first Kids Kup of the 2007-2008 series, made possible by generous support from REI and Shimano.
Coordinated by Texas Bicycle Coalition and Shimano Youth Series; the BikeTexas Kids Kup events were developed to inspire the next generation of mountain bike enthusiasts as well as introduce children to basic bicycle safety and handling skills. Each Kids Kup event coincides with a Texas Mountain Bike Racing Association (TMBRA) Series event.
At every Kid's Kup event, Bill Payne, the coordinator of the event, presents a basic bike safety and handling skills demo. Camp Eagle also brought in a Naturalist and the children got to meet and learn about snakes, turtles and millipedes. The event was a success with 42 children riding the course.
Huston-Tillotson University SuperCollege Students Visit TBC
Dr. Rozena McCabe, Professor of Kinesiology at Houston-Tillotson University (HTU), teaches under the philosophy that "the student should receive the knowledge through several sensory modalities and that learning is more permanent when students 'do' as well as 'listen'."
This was easily accomplished on a warm sunny Saturday in September as Dr. McCabe brought 15 kinesiology students two blocks down the hill from HTU to the TBC Offices in East Austin. From there, they departed on an eight mile spin with TBC's TREK Hybrids though city streets and on the trail network along the recently renamed Lake Lady Bird in Austin. A bicycle safety training session for hand signals and "rules of the road" was held midway through the ride.
Successful SuperCyclist Training at Lamar Consolidated ISD Kicks Off 2007-08 School Year
Thirty-two additional elementary school teachers joined the BikeTexas SuperCyclist-Certified Club (over three thousand strong) on August 23, 2007, after a fun-filled one-day training at the Terry High School campus in Rosenburg.
Ms. Laura Lyons of the Lamar Consolidated ISD did such a superb job of recruitment for the SuperCylcist Teacher certification. In order to provide a one on one atmosphere, TBCEF staff split the class and brought in two Houston area SuperCylclist field instructors. Frequent laughter could be heard wafting back and forth in the hallway between the two classrooms as the field instuctors each applied their own personal style to the SuperCyclist material.
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