Phillip Ward, Ph.D., is an associate Professor of Sport and Exercise Education in the School of Physical Activity and Educational Services at The Ohio State University. Phillip teaches and studies curriculum and instruction in physical education settings. His research has focused on two complementary areas: Teaching effectiveness and teacher professional development. Phillip and his graduate students have used peer mediation in the form of peer mediated accountability, class-wide peer tutoring and cooperative learning to improve motor skills, tactical game play, and social skills of elementary and secondary school students. Most recently his work on teaching effectiveness has lead to inquiry into the role of content and pedagogical content knowledge in teaching. Phillip’s work on teacher professional development focuses on how changing workplace conditions and engaging in sustained professional support of teachers effects (a) teachers' quality of life in their school, (b) the curriculum that is offered, and (c) student outcomes. His current research focuses on an assessment of curriculum reforms in secondary physical education using the Physical Education –Make a Difference project PE-MAD. Phillip is the author of Teaching Tumbling published by Human Kinetics and co-author of Physical Education in the 21st Century published by the University of Nebraska.  He has published more than 50 research papers. Phillip is a Fellow of AAHPERD's Research Consortium and he has received The Ohio State University's College of Education Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2002 and the College’s Distinguished Collaboration Award in 2004. With his wife Marie, and sons Robert and Trevor, Phillip likes to play tennis, to kayak and to travel.