Eric Kruger - Week 12 Student teaching

This week has been an interesting one. We have been finishing up our fitness gram testing, and the final test is one that the students hate, the pacer. The fitness testing was only done for the 3rd through 5th graders, so they are a bit older and know what to expect. This was testing their cardiovascular endurance as we talked about how that is important to their daily life (19.A.2b).  To motivate the students and show that anyone could do it, I ran the pacer with all three classes that day. I wanted to motive the students and help push them a bit farther when they were getting ready to quit. Most of the kids did great throughout the day, but we had a few that did not push themselves at all and just wanted to be done with the test as soon as they could. We talked to these students about their effort after and talked about how effort carries over into everything. Throughout the test, we also talked about how staying physically fit is very important to keeping a healthy lifestyle (20.A.2b). Overall, we were impressed on the level of effort as a whole group as we had 7 students run 200 laps on the pacer. Next week, I want to keep refining my classroom management skills and continue to keep good organization throughout the lessons.