Lab B2

This past Wednesday our EDU 255 class did another lab on Ultimate Frisbee to work on refining our teaching skills from the previous lab.  During this lab I worked on being more prepared so that I didn't feel so worried throughout the entire thing and hopefully it would go smoother.  By preparing more I felt calm and knew the flow that I wanted however I didn't exactly teach what I needed to.  The objective to this teaching session was to discuss throwing at different distances and how to adapt to this by the flick of the wrist.  I did change the distances in the lesson however, I worked more on moving around and using different types of throws to get a good pass.  

Here are some things that analyze the lesson that I did:

Transcript - shows exactly what I said during my lesson.

Time Coding - shows the type of teaching I was doing and how long each part lasted.

Feedback Analysis - shows the feedback that I gave my students.

Time Coding Form

Here is a Time Coding Form breakdown of my Lab B which is the video below. 

This lab seemed for some reason to come much harder for me. The only thing i could think of was that I was really trying to keep everything in the sequence that I wanted too which I should not have worried too much about. I thought I taught very well other than the once incident that I had that had to deal with safety because I forgot that there were frisbee's laying around the gym that needed to be picked up so that no one would slip on them.

Here is a picture of me teaching my lesson on how to properly to a V-cut in basketball.

Lab 2A Basketball V-Cut

Baseball Stretch

Here is a simple stretch you can use for your baseball team.  I taught this on my first day of class in EDU 255.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1NsE6BrH_4&feature=player_embedded

Ch. 1 questions 1,4, and 5

1.  The idea of teaching being a goal-oriented activity is meant that everything that is taught helps to achieve a set goal.  Before every class, the lesson plan that the teacher has for that day should be striving to reach a certain goal in what is being learned.  Such as in basketball, if dribbling is part of the lesson, the goal could be that everyone can dribble with their dominant hand by the end of the class.  Goals for a class could be long-term or short-term.  These goals should be realistic goals as well.  They should match the skill level at which the students are at. 

2.  It is important for teachers to teach content in a certain process because sometimes there is only a specific order or strategy in which content can be obtained by students.  For example, a student should not be taught how to be a catcher in baseball if they can't even catch a regular thrown ball.  There needs to be steps in the process of teaching a skill so that certain goals can be reached at different way points during a lesson. 

3.  The movement task-student response unit of analysis is so important in physical education because it is the heart of teaching PE.  This is the basic teaching strategy of a PE teacher.  Students are first told what to do and what skill they will be improving.  They are then set on their own with certain instructions as to what needs to be done.  The student response section of this is the most important because it explains how the student is learning.  Teacher feedback should be giving at this time depending on if the student is doing something wrong, right, or just needs to try something new.  This part of PE is how a student learns from their mistakes and is congratulated with something that they have achieved.