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Personal Reflection - Week 10

This course in Physical Education has highlighted some interesting aspects when teaching PE, understanding your teaching content and students. Each lesson has provided a thorough and invaluable guide on how to understand the students you are working with and how to create a lesson with ease. Personally I have learnt that filling a lesson with many objectives and only achieving one or two is highly frustrating especially when teaching children. Not only does the teacher have to deliver a meaningful lesson, but maintain motivation, class management and organisation skills and adhere to the structure of the lesson plan.  A lesson requires time to think through and it does not stop there. The lesson on paper in theory may not work in practice so it is paramount for the teacher to perform the lesson themselves to a degree to gauge the timing of the lesson, structure, the feasibility and general content of the pedagogy. The teacher must be mindful of his/her students, the leve
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Sports Safety, First Aid and Injuries - Week 9

The 9th lesson in Physical Education focused on Injuries, Sports Safety and First Aid. Injuries can be classed as acute or chronic and when they occur in a sport setting should be treated with immediate attention. Tendons - attach muscle to bone Ligaments - attach bone to bone Injuries may be:  Contusion or bruise Abrasion Cuts Treatments of open wounds:  Make area safe Control bleeding Prevent infection Dress wounds Bandages Visit a doctor Treatments of a Puncture: Embedded objects: Remove person from danger/make them comfortable Do not remove object Take control of bleeding /bandage around the object Take person to Doctor or call Ambulance Sprains: Grades I, II, III - Stretching, partial tearing, complete tearing of ligaments at a joint. Strains: Grades I, II, III - Stretching, partial tearing, complete tearing of a muscle.. Treatments of Injuries: R - Rest I - Ice C - Compress E - Elevate higher than the heart. Treatment of Hand Injuries:
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Fitness - Week 8

The 8th lesson in Physical Education focused on fitness. The definition of FITNESS is the quality of being suitable to fulfil a particular role or task. The components of health related or skill related do not include flexibility. Health is the social, metal-emotional and physical wellbeing of a person. When we compare ourselves against athletes fitness is relative to the task, to the person. Skill related fitness - tasks Health related fitness - how many tasks or jobs at hand. Factors affecting fitness: Poor Nutrition Lack of sleep Stress/Anxiety Excessive smoking Excessive Alcohol Excessive use of drugs Somatyping is the categorisation of body types into: Ectomorphs, Endomorphs, Mesomorphs. All systems work together Cardio-Vascular, Cardio-respiratory, Muscular Skeletal, Digestive, Nervous. Practical Lesson: Working in groups of 4 to demonstrate in 4 different balances. Holding wrists squatting in chair balance Hands and feet support balanc
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Teaching Styles - Week 7

The 7th Physical Education lesson focused on Teaching Styles. Developing the correct teaching style is important for delivering the lessons efficiently to get the best out of the audience for which it is intended. The points to consider are: Students - age, gender, level, ability Environment Resources Available Content Pedagogy Time Muska Mosston wrote teaching styles see below: Every strategy has a style of teaching. Continuum starts with the Direct Method and ends with the Indirect Method. Direct > Limitation Instruction > Indirect Teacher-centred approach has more control: students listen and follow instructions. Direct Instruction > specific Instructions  F or e.g. Walking on a line: slowly hands at the side of body square shoulders chin up Direct Instruction:  Advantages: Shorter lesson, time for other things in the lesson. Disadvantages: stifling children's creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving
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Skill Development Progression - Week 6

The 6th Lesson in Physical Education focused on Skill Development Progression. This progression allows for activities to build from:   Individual > Pair > Group For progression teacher can allow the students to experiment with different sizes of objects for example balls for activities. Individual progression from simple to complex can be explored in the following ways: Exploring shaped movement experience Sequencing different types of shapes Exploring different shapes on different bases Exploring different shapes on different bases on equipment  Progression using the body parts to make shapes : Types of shapes: thin, tall, wide, short, round, crouched Organisation: using personal space or general space. Teaching points come from movement experience -- knowing content e.g. To make the alphabet using body shapes. The students must be aware of : Using letter as a guide Using letters that are rounds Using letters that are thin and tall. Students make
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Lesson Planning (Part 2) - Week 5

The Fifth lesson in Physical Education was a continuation of lesson planning of the previous class. The lesson plan was detailed to include 3 major categories: Movement Experience: Introductory/Warm-up Activity - to avoid cramps and injury Skill Development - progression linkages 1) simple to complex 2) Individual > Pair > Group Skill Application Closure Organization: Groups of certain numbers Specific instruction for activity Space Equipment Progression - Individuals, Pairs, Group activities. Teaching Points and Cues: Teacher has specific rules for activity Teacher give specific instruction to do skill or technique Use of Space Practical Lesson: The practical aspect of this lesson focused on: Bases, Shapes, Mirroring, Matching, Transitions. Bases which were any parts of the body in contact with the floor to provide stability - hands, feet, back, knees, torso, tail bone. Wide bases with feet placed wide apart - large space between them. Sh
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Lesson Planning Part 1 - Week 4

The fourth class in Physical Education focused on LESSON PLANNING. There are separation of classes in terms of age, because of the differences in intellectual abilities and body conscious at different ages especially teenagers. The following factors are important to plan the pedagogy of the lesson: Age Gender - Boys and Girls Number of Student in the class Types and quantity of resources Previous knowledge, skills, experiences Including aspects of all learning domains: Cognitive (Thinking) Affective (Emotional) Psychomotor (Physical) The objectives consist of must be taught and which include the following elements: A (Audience), B (Behaviour), C (Condition), D (Degree of accuracy) not necessarily in that order. General  Specific For example:  Demonstrate how to run using proper form and technique during a game of tag. Break it down:  Running Stop and run Stretching Turning Running in different directions. The teacher must affirm clearly for e
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