So You Think You Can Teach PE?

Andrew Lab C

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I am 100% thrilled and relieved Lab C is over. Mainly because I feel like I wasn't prepared as well as I should have been. I had changed all of my activities on the Monday right before and I changed them again on Tuesday night, mainly due to things not being perfect. I think that contributed to why I don't think I did my best, I was trying to pretty much wing it with what I had to settle on eight hours before I presented.

C9

I always strive for S's or A's when it comes to this form and one thing that I believe I should be getting an S (strength) on every time was my main weakness. My voice, which is normally my strength was my weakness in Lab C. during the presentation, I wasn't aware of this at all, it's become so natural of me to expect that my voice will be a strength but when giving instructions, I would get quieter and I did hear that when re watching my video. I think that this is because I was not prepared. Now whether this was because I had to change my activity numerous times in order to make it "suitable," it is impossible to change everything your project is about and not have some flaw when it comes time to present and my strength became my weakness. Lab D for me is in two weeks time, which means my amount of time working on Lab C to Lab D gets cut in half. I need to have this planned at least three to five days in advance. This will help me get my mindset into what I am going to teach and how I am going to teach it.

C10

This form was another thing that I was shocked to see. I tried to plan my presentation with as little talking as possible but everything that went wrong gets tied back to not being prepared because of the changes. I had everything planned out perfectly in my head going into it and looking at the time analysis form, It looked like it was working to a certain extent. Then something happened that I would never think that I would do that I ended up doing: I cut the presentation a minute short. Instead of going the full fifteen minutes, I ended up stopping a little before the fourteen minute mark for some strange reason, putting my percentage of activity time at 42% and my instruction percentage at 51%. This makes me really mad at myself because I know I had it planned to the best of my abilities bot for Lab D, I really need to make sure I plan better, not change anything and especially not change anything the day before I teach.

C11

I wish I could sit here and tell you that my C11 feedback form went well but it didn't. And I wish I could tell you that it wasn't because I wasn't prepared but I can't. This didn't go too well either and I am going to once again blame not being prepared. I ended up giving feedback but it was mainly positive feedback instead of corrective feedback. My thought process going through the lesson and seeing everyone doing the skill was that they are all doing it right, what should I do? I should have given them all a challenge to do but I ended up walking around saying "good job" to everyone. I think Tyler was having trouble catching so I gave him some feedback on what he was doing and how to fix it but everyone else seemed to be fine. Now for Lab D, I need to make sure I not only plan, but I plan progressions and use them if some students are not being challenged enough.

Lab D

I am a nervous wreck going into Lab D. I have two weeks to prepare when I had four weeks for Lab C, and I wasn't even ready in four weeks. I think my biggest goal for Lab D is to just unload and give it my best effort during the planning process. There is so much stuff that I need to focus on for all these different classes, getting Lab D done might be really hard, especially this week but time won't wait for me, I need to work my schedule around time itself. Maybe that means a few sleepless nights, maybe it means not watching television, maybe it means cutting back from the gym (the few times a week that I do go) or maybe it means taking days off from work. Okay maybe it won't be that bad and it probably won't be that bad. I've learned from mistakes in the past not to get stressed and I will let you all in on my secret. Mental preparation. Many people think "Oh I have these projects due in this class and these for another and  I have no time on my hands and I'm so stressed!" What you need to do if you think like that is to think about everything you have to do and just break it down into pieces. I was stressing about Lab C on Friday, I was thinking that there was so much stuff that needed to get done and in only two days. Thinking about it helped me a ton because I broke it down into pieces. "Okay self, Friday, you better work on those C9-C11 forms or you don't get to watch TV tonight!" "Saturday's here me and I'm going to do my blog (Which is almost done) and Sunday is a great day to finish whats left on the resource packet then your done!" Then it doesn't seem as bad.