What a mess....

I wish I could say I kicked butt during my lab D but it definitly didn't go how I pictured it. I found that when your teaching something you know really well you have to be aware of the fact that though I know it really well and find it easy doesn't mean everyone else is going to find it easy. I didn't do a good job explain each step in great detail and messed up on some counts because its a dance I'm use to doing and just assumed everyone would get it. I also should have brought some visual aids because that would have helped the students that couldn't remember all of the parts. Overall it was a great learning experience because in the future if I wanted to teach a dance like this I know now that I have to make sure that I'm still breaking the dance down enough that people will get it and that I'm not assuming they will know it because I do. If I could do it again I would make several changes but I am glad to have such a wonderful learning experiences. In all my other classes I can learn dances, martial arts Kata's, how to throw a ball but it doesn't mean I'd be efficient in teaching such a task. I believe that this lab and this class help Physical Education students understand that fact. It teaches us new ways and techniques to reach out to our students and allow them to make the most of the PE experience. It also allows us future teaches to learn how technology can be used inside the PE classroom. Lab D packet check it out! Also take a look at a block plan for a dance unit.

Butterflies....

So tomorrow I teach my last big lab for EDU 255, the big bad lab D. I'm actually nervous about it because I'm on my own and because I know their going to make some of my fellow students act up. Which is something I believe I can handle but I still have a little bit of butterflies about how the whole lesson is going to go. Also, tomorrow I have to present my power point for the big lab my group has been doing in PED 434, so tomorrow is a big day, but once it's over I'll feel very releaved. In 434 my group has been teaching bowling and its been going really well and I think our power point should go really well but getting up in front or a class is always a little scary and tends to give me butterflies. I might as well get the butterflies out now though, considering this is what I'm going to be doing from the time I graduate till the time I retire.....

Who's the Ace?

I taught my second lesson for Lab C on Ace, King, Queen today and it went much better then my first one. I felt much more comfortable in front of the class but I did make one mistake that I have to be careful about. I have a tendency to say "OK class, hold your balls." Which wouldn't be so bad if I was working with adults but when I'm working with Middle School kids I realize it would probably take me the rest of the class to get them to stop laughing because I told them to hold on to their balls. It's a lesson that I'll have to learn and develop other ways of getting the students attention. I think that overall the class had a good time with the game which is something I take pride in. I hope that my students are never bored, because I want my students to enjoy physical education as much as I did in high school. I understand its going to be hard but I'm up for the challenge because I believe there is a way for everyone to enjoy physical activity, I just have to be able to build my whole class up for success. Lesson Plan number one and Lesson Plan number two!

MP3 lesson

(To Professor Yang)

Without a disc? Ok
sounds good.

(To the whole class)

Ok, guys can everybody
bring it in around the light please. Thank you. We’re going to
work on defending but we’re not going to use Frisbees obviously
cause the lights are out. So, everybody is going to need to get a
partner and when I say go, you guys are going to work on defending. A
couple of rules are you have to be arms length apart from your
partner. So if Mikes my partner and I’m defending him then I’d
have to be like arms length away.

(To Mike)

No just on arms length
(laugh)

(To the whole class)

Ok? And I can’t
put my hands in his face, I can’t go like this or anything like
that it’s kind of like this and that’s really all the
rules you need to know. You need to know that he can do back hand and
for hand so you have to be aware of both sides. Ok? Alrighty? So pair
up and go. Does anyone not have one, cause I can be a partner? If
someone doesn’t have one?

(To Courtney)

I can be yours if you
want and I can watch a little bit. You don’t need to wear the
piney (laugh). So if we’re arms length away and you’re
defending me you can’t go like this in my face and you can’t
jump over my head, so it’s kind of like your boxing someone out
in basketball but facing them. (laugh) ok we’ll switch. Yep. Oh
your good.

(To Toby)

Oh yes she did do the
spin move on me.

(To Joe)

Ok. Nice job.

(To Katie)

So you want to make
sure your arms length away and no yelling in his face, I know you
want to.

(To Joe)

Nice job on your throw
and block.

(To Ciara)

Very nice.

(To Toby)

Nice job Toby, It is.

(To the whole class)

Alright everybody can
bring it in around the light again. Who can raise their hand and
tell me one rule you’re your defending? John…..ok…Brian….ok
and Joe. I don’t know how to stop it.

Lab C part 2

I taught the second part of my lab c lesson on Friday the 31st HALLOWEEN! I thought it went pretty well. I taught the same game as the first part Ace, King Queen, except things went a lot better then last time. I had the students get into groups of four and play a game, but without all the rules. They learned the rotation and after that they got to use distraction. I did make a big mistake when I asked them to hold their balls. That the second time I've done that and I have to get use to not saying that because if I was in a middle school I would lose my students attention by saying that. I would never get them to stop laughing and repeating it. Its just a habit I'm going to have to break. I also didn't make a safety statement in the beginning and I had a group of boys not paying attention to those around them so I had to stop and explain to them that they needed to calm down. I also made the task harder for them by supplying them with a smaller ball, I did this because I felt that the first task was too easy and thats why they started acting up. I'm really happy with how the lesson went but I know that I still have some improvements to make.