Week One Reflection
I am really liking my new
school site for clinical practice one.
The department of physical education here carries a tight ship. As a result the school has a slightly more
militaristic style, but transitions are faster, chaos is kept to a minimum and
in the end students achieve 3x as much as they would in other schools I have
visited. The class is student run and
routine based which relieves the teacher of the beginning warm ups to move
about the students, talk, and create connections. The students carry a larger respect for the
teachers because of this. The students
gain individual attention from the teachers which creates a larger respect and
better cooperation.
In this first week I have
been able to practice teaching in a ‘mirrored’ fashion. I will watch my cooperating teachers teach a
class in the morning, and then copy it for my assigned classes in the
afternoon. I am scheduled to take the
class over at the end of the unit, but this opportunity allows me to continue
practicing managerial routines and instructional lectures. What the teachers plan I know the level of
success it has from the morning class in which I can compare it with my own
performance in the afternoon. I am
learning a new challenge for physical education. We move around the campus constantly during
class, and we don’t always have the option of handouts and white boards because
of the nature of the class. I am a
little frustrated by this because this results in limitations in how I am able
to differentiate my content for my students.
We have a sportfolio that we truck around from one location to another
but with middle school students they often leave them laying around, get
stepped on, and if papers are not stapled to the folder it is a guaranteed mess
with paper flying around the field. Does
anyone have any suggestions? I am
thinking about relying on a blog and twitter to help for long term instruction,
but daily instruction still presents a challenge. Does anyone have any ideas?
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