Physical education candidates use effective communication and pedagogical skills and strategies to enhance student engagement and learning.
Artifact 1: Bulletin Board
4.2: Implement effective demonstrations, explanations, and instructional cues and prompts to link physical activity concepts to appropriate learning experiences.
My bulletin board was done during my 60 hours of observation and teaching during May of 2010. I put together a bulletin board based on softball because that was the unit that they were focusing on at that time. I put in different cues that had to do with softball, some history, and ways to get involved within the community.
The bulletin board allowed the students to get to know the history of softball a little bit as well as ways they could get involved in their community. It had a lot of pictures and was very colorful so it was appealing to the eye, and was put right outside the gym where anyone walking by could see it.
Implementing effective demonstrations, explanations, and instructional cues and prompts to link physical activity concepts to appropriate learning experiences is important in becoming a physical educator because it gives you as a teacher different ways in which to motivate your students to learn. It also gives them different ways in which to learn.
Artifact 2: Adapted Lesson Plan
4.4: Recognize the changing dynamics of the environment and adjust instructional tasks based on student responses.
This lesson plan was written for one of my lessons with my adapted student. The theme was jungle/forest and since he was a boy scout, I decided to write all the activities based on the movie Up! Everything did not go as planned, which was not unusual, but overall the lesson went well.
The results of this lesson showed that not everything is going to go as planned in any lesson, but being able to adjust to changes and have different challenges written in your lesson plan, help you to be more prepared as a teacher.
Recognizing the changing dynamics of the environment and being able to adjust tasks based on student responses is important for a physical educator because every lesson will need to be changed depending on the students in the class. Some lessons will work better with certain students and not with others so you will need to be flexible with change.
