Its hard to believe that I will be student teaching in just a months time. I have waited so long for this to finally come and now that it is here I am scared to death. I think one of the hardest things to do will be to remember everything i have learned and apply it to my teaching. This class has helped a lot to generate more ideas of things that I can use in my teaching.
I think one thing that I really learned from this class is to take into account the diversity of your students. Especially students who might be poor and not able to meet all of my dress requirements. I dont yet have a solid solution, but this class has made me think about the problem and try to come up with ideas which I think is important. Also I think that its important to include students who might have physical or mental disabilities and how I am going to accommodate them since Physical Education should be a big part of their curriculum as well. I think its important to include students to the fullest and modify activities so that they are never sitting out and are able to participate as much as the other students.
I think digital literacy is a huge part of our society today and that it should almost be a requirement to incorporate it into your classroom. Whether it is having students use it in the classroom or simply telling them programs or apps to try out on their own. And in physical education it is becoming more common for classes to get heart rate monitors or pedometers. I think that it is important for students to have these as a form of feedback besides what the teacher is seeing. They are continuous resources for feedback and students can monitor their own activity.
I will likely have different literary sources that are on hand that I can recommend for students to read for motivation or for enjoyment. I dont think that I will have it as an assignment since P.E. generally is about movement and not book reports. But I think it is important for my students to know that if they are curious about different activities or sports that there are a number of resources that they can check out and learn more about.
I will use a lot more ideas from class if I teach health since it is more textbook and vocabulary related. I think that health is a little harder to keep the attention of the students and I will need to have a lot of stories that relate as well as hands on activities to build background knowledge.
Thanks for your final blog, Chrissy. I like your idea of having a classroom library--I agree, your students' days will not be spent sitting there and reading, but if you have high-interest materials available, I think you'll be surprised at the ways that students will take advantage of that resource and how they can learn about physical activity through what they read as well.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your willingness to see how the ideas of this course might relate to a discipline whose mode of learning is different than most.
Good luck with your student teaching next semester! Exciting!