Greg's Lab C Reflection

Sepak Takraw

Overview

Lab C was an excellent experience and I can feel myself growing as a teacher more and more as each lab goes on. This lab was not exception, one thing that I noticed that I did significantly better in was the construction of my lesson plan(lesson plan) Having focused so heavily on my lesson plan and activities made me more confident going into lab C.

C9 Form

Upon looking over my C9 and the Ta’s C9 for me I found that they were relatively similar in regards to my safety statement, visual aid and providing proper feedback, The biggest problem that I ran into yet again was the timing of my lesson. Going into this lab I knew that that was something that needed to be addressed from my lab B. Unfortunately, it still happened despite my best efforts, I believe that with the added problem with dealing with behavior problems made me loose my focus and took time away from the lesson that I did not properly account for. In the next lab I really need to make sure I map every little detail out. The one thing that my Ta's stated that I would have to disagree with was that they said “don't ignore other students.” I believe that I did a good job trying to keep all students with in sight and provide feedback to all except for when I needed to provide another demonstration for Laura and Andrew who were having difficulties with the header. With that being said there is always room for more feedback for both higher and lower skill students. One thing that I learned from my teachers C9 that I did not from mine was that not all students were active and some were limited in participation because of my choice in activities. One thing that severely affected me was not being able to have proper nets because we were unable to get a gym that could allow nets. If I were able to have several nets set up as planned I feel that the participation would have gone up dramatically. However, that is not an excuse and for the next lab as well as future teaching I will need to change up my lesson plan to accommodate for the absence of required equipment.

C10- Time Coding

This was definitely a weak point in my lesson. I did not score well on my time analysis of my lesson, I had a 17% management, 31% activity, 29% Instruction, and 23% waiting. My instruction and management time was nearly in the target zone which is good to know because it will be easier for me to know how much time I should designate to instructing and managing where students are to go for the activity. The areas that I really need to work on are my waiting time and activity time. I believe that these scores suffered because I did not have the proper equipment and space and found myself adjusting activities as I saw fit. On my own time analysis it further enforced what I really needed to work on. I scored a 53% on practice, 37% on lecture/demo, and a 8% on the management section. The only target that I reached was my management which was different from the Ta's time analysis of my lesson. My goal for the next lab is, I'm going to focus on keeping students more active, and wait less in between and during activities.

C11- Behavior rating scale

This form was very useful to me because it focused more on how you communicate with your students which is the most important part of being a physical education teacher. The first part of the form showed me that I provided lots of corrective and positive feedback to individuals that were related directly to the skills. This is critical because as and physical education teacher nothing encourages students more than knowing the teacher is taking note of all the good things they are doing and providing them with some ideas that will help better them. This form also shows me how well I know my students or in this case classmates. Par of this form asked me to keep track of how man times I mentioned a students name and after all was said and done I recorded that I used classmates names over 60 times!! I feel that this is very important as a teacher because it lets the students know that you are specifically referring to them and specifically instructs a student to do something or let them know you are talking to them for encouragement or instruction. Finally, the last part showed me that I was making things too hard or was not clear enough with my instruction because my results showed that at least two students were having difficulty with the activity’s that I had planned in my lesson for that day. Next time I can tone things back and make my directions more clear and tasks more simple so the class has more success than failure.

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Lab D and progress

Since the beginning of the semester I have been learning so much and have been able to see my progression from lab B to lab C. I have noticed that I have been gaining confidence and have been adding a little more and a little more every time im teaching. For lab D I plan on doing the same only I will focus on not talking so much and having the class stay more active. I will be able to do this be being more clear with my instructions and no over explaining everything. By doing these few simple things I will be able to hopefully enter all the target zones on the time analysis sheet which will ultimately make me a better teacher all around.