Andrew Billups Lab B- Badminton

Lab B- Badminton

What?

The topic I had for Lab B was Badminton. At first I was not sure at all for what I wanted to do. I wasn’t sure if I wanted go over serves or regular game play. Then I thought back to when I took racket activities with professor Fuchs. I remember him first going over the serve and teaching it step by step. You can’t play a game of badminton with out being able to serve so I felt I should also start my lesson with that. The instant activity I used was just to get the students used to how hard and how soft they need to hit the birdie. After that I went into teaching the forehand serve. After teaching the cues and demonstrating each step I had the students practice there hits into designated targets I repeated these steps for the backhand serve. For the last activity I had the students get into groups and see how many times they could get points by hitting the hula hoops with the birdies. After teaching lab A this was much easier and less nerve racking. I felt much more confident and more focused.

Gut

During Lab A I was very nervous I felt that I was slipping with my words and also wasn’t able to stand still. Going into lab B I was nervous the same thing was going to happen. The night before classes I was extremely nervous. I was nervous that I would struggle with the same tasks that I struggled with the in the last lab. A problem I noticed I have is over thinking things. Once I started teaching for lab B all of the nervous jitters that I had in lab A went away. I was also nervous that the “students” would not be interested at all and not want to participate in the activities I had. Building my lesson plan I was constantly changing my plans and ideas of what I wanted to do. This ended up making me think I wasn’t prepared , which again only made me more nervous. Like I said the longer and the more I taught the more comfortable I got.

So What?

As I watched my video what I noticed is that students where not as active as I hoped. 31.1% of my time was spent on management. 28.9% was activity time. 30% instruction time, and 10% wait time. So one of the main things I need to work on is talking and explain less and letting the students play and practice the skills I taught. Also after watching the video of me teaching I see that my feedback to many of the students was extremely “general” (rink,140). I need to work being more specific with my feedback and going over specific tasks that a student is struggling with. I also need to work on my class feedback. I only gave class feedback one time throughout the whole lesson, which is something that I need to change the more that I teach. Also after watching the video I noticed the tasks I chose were very simple. The students needed more of a challenge and more tasks that would really make them work to get better. Although some students were hitting the targets with ease there were some that struggled so I need to make sure I make activities that effectively entertain low skilled, medium skill and high skilled students.

Now What?

Lab B, just like Lab A was a tool that will help me improve. I know now going into lab C the things that need to be changed. I need to make activities more difficult and really challenge the students to work harder. I also need to get straight to the point when explaining my cues so there is much more activity time for the students. The word guys still slips every once and while and I really need to work on that because it is not fare to the females in the class if they are constantly referred to as guys. Lab C I want to come in focused and not nervous, have great activities and engage all of the students for the maximum amount of time.

Demonstrating the importance of a good follow through

Here is my lab B video