Thursday, October 6, 2011
SCED POST # 2
I have been thinking about literacy and how to implement it into a physical education class that is based on movement and activity. There usually is no need for a text book and the only real literacy that will be transferred will be instruction from me to my students on cues how to do certain skills. I was trying to think of other ways of how literacy will be involved in my class and I came up with another. I realized that a big part of physical education is enjoyment so that the students will continue to be physically active. And if literacy can be anything that is transmitting information from one source to another, evaluating my students attitudes towards certain activities would serve as a form of literacy. I will need to monitor and change my teaching strategies for each class that comes and the only way to successfully do that is to adjust to my students needs and interests.
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I do think it's important to continue to build a lifelong love of physical education. One way you can do this is through the types of discussions you have and the questions you ask. I could imagine one open-ended question that you ask could be, "What do you think keeps people from exercising?"--then, after students have discussed that, you could ask, "What can you do to overcome those barriers?"
ReplyDeleteI think I shared in class about the article where many women were not exercising because they did not want to mess up their hair. People also don't exercise because they are self-conscious about their bodies or because they don't have enough money to afford gym membership. I think that if you actually brought these things out in the open and discussed ways that students could overcome them, you would have more of a lasting impact on their physical activity than you would if you just taught them dribbling and kicking techniques.
In that case, the part about "leading effective discussions" that we mentioned in this course could apply to gym as well.
And...you are certified to teach health, too, right? If you do end up teaching that subject, it tends to be more "text-based" subject that can definitely integrate reading, writing, and discussion on a regular basis.