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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 level, ages, abilities, previous knowledge and motivations in order to strive for an achievable lesson. Understanding the students' learning styles and personalities will give greater depth as to why certain students will respond to particular activities and not others.


In closing, this course has opened my eyes to the whole-child development and developing the Social, Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual aspects of the child's wellbeing. It has changed my view from it just being a time for playing outdoors to something more meaningful and structured and as a result I have a much deeper appreciation for the subject now.



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