Rate My Professor Aaron Banks

Banks' academic interests encompass best practices in Health and Physical Education teaching instruction and methodology, wellbeing behaviors of college-aged populations, historical and philosophical perspectives of global sport, effects of popular culture media on students, media-enhanced content impacts on attitudes, cognitive and psychomotor learning, and self-defense education. His publications include 'Developing student affect in a university self-defense course' (2006), 'The incorporation of self-defense as a unit of study within physical education' (2009), 'Refining self-defense instruction with visiting professionals' (pelinks4u.org, 2009), and 'Benefits of a Sport-specific Warm-up in Physical Education' (co-authored with Julian Reed and Rock Brathwaite). He has presented 'Five Steps to Developing Awareness and Prevention in Self-Defense Education' at the American Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance conference and 'Impact of Secularization on the Wellness of Americans: A Lutheran Perspective' at the HES International Leisure Conference in ChunCheon, Korea (2010). Banks received awards at the 2019 MNSHAPE Conference with alumna Kirsten Thisius Guentzel and the Lou Keller Award for outstanding service contributions by a college professor. His work supports student development in physical education pedagogy and coaching.