This week was an interesting one in the fact that the majority of the week we had to ad lib most of our lessons. While two of the days we were able to run our normal lessons on badminton and pillo polo, the other three days there were activities going on through the school and we were pushed out of our activity areas by them. In these days, we had to throw together activities for our classes. During my first period, I had to put together a dutch long ball game. It went well and the students were able to stay active throughout. During my 4th period class, we joined one of the other classes and had a fitness unit put together for these days. The students would rotate through stations that consisted of lower ab work, jump rope, jogging, and upper ab work. This specifically fits into 19.A.4b with the students staying physical active and using repetitive motions. With the last class, we also joined with another class to play a big kickball game. This was a bit more of a slower pace as there was not as much movement going on by the students and we had to push a bit more to make sure the students were participating.
The one thing that I would like to try to work on my is having the students develop more of a strategy in pillo polo as there is not much passing right now and just wild hitting the ball. Talking the the students and having them do some passing drills down the court will hopefully help this out. This also fits into 19.C.4b.
It seems as though this week was valuable in that you had to make adjustments on the fly. Not at all unusual for a PE teacher. Our “space” is not necessarily ours as it is often used for other purposes . It is good that you are seeing areas of your teaching that need to be adjusted so as to maximize the time and benefits the students are getting out of the class. Enjoy your day(s) off this week and stay warm.
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