Instructional Delivery and Management
Physical education candidates use effective communication and pedagogical skills and strategies to enhance student engagement and learning.
Physical education candidates use effective communication and pedagogical skills and strategies to enhance student engagement and learning.
Element 4.1: Demonstrate
effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills across a variety of
instructional formats.
Artifact: Zoomed-In Version
Artifact: Sign Up Sheet for Students
Date: Spring 2012
Reflection:
During
my field experience at Mexico Middle School I had the opportunity to assist
with their lessons in cup stacking. As a gift to the school I created a
bulletin board that was posted outside the gymnasium. The bulletin board
included pictures of the cycle they were working on in class, the world record
holder, and a picture of the record holder for their middle school. I also
added a sheet that called “Mexico’s Cup Staking Hall of Fame” that the students
could post their fastest time for completing the cycle.
This
artifact supports standard 4 because while I was participating in class I was
providing verbal feedback and encouragement, while the bulletin board was a
visual was of communicating with the students. The board was posted as a
reminder of the cycle they were working on, while it also encouraged them to
work hard to possibly get the chance to have their name posted on the “Hall of Fame.”
This
experience/standard is important to me as a future teacher because it is
important to approach the students in multiple ways to ensure success. Teachers
can use bulletin boards to help reinforce their lessons because students will
see information outside of the class on the boards.
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Element 4.2: Implement effective
demonstrations explanations, and instructional cues and prompts to link
physical activity concepts to appropriate learning experiences.
Artifact: Video of Visual Aid
Date: Spring 2012
In Basics
of Effective Instruction in Physical Education I was challenged to teach an
international sport. The sport I was assigned to teach was Shinty at a
Kindergarten level. This sport is similar to Field Hockey but originated in
Scotland over 2,000 years ago. To teach the swinging motion at a beginner level
for Kindergarten I chose to relate this motion to a pendulum in a grandfather
clock. So that the students were clear of the motion I was looking for I
created a visual aid that had an actual moveable pendulum.
This
artifact demonstrates standard 4 because the visual aid demonstrates the
specific motion and cues I was highlighting during this lesson. I believe
having attractive and interesting visual aids can help students understand and
connect the cues to movements you are looking for.
As
a future teacher this standard is important to my development because it is essential
to understand the importance of teaching in multiple modalities. Teaching in
multiple modalities helps to ensure that students with different learning
styles will all have an understanding. This would include verbally explaining,
physically demonstrating, having visual aids with words and pictures and having
the students perform the task mirroring the teacher. Understanding and
implementing this as a teacher is very important for student learning.
