Sunday, December 18, 2011
Lab 6 reflection!
Or final lab at St. Mary's Catholic school was another great learning experience for teaching. Our group had the pre-k kids again. My group and I played outside first and the kid's especially Lucas had fun sliding down the slide giving us, teacher candidates high fives. The kid's look up to us which is most important for the both of us. Everyone went inside and my group led activities in the gym. I led a Snowman Tag game with taggers and 'savers' wearing different colored pinnies. The group and I later played a gamer with everyone in a circle that where the object was to hit the ball through each others legs. That game was fun and the kid's had just as much fun too.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Bouncing off the Walls at St. Mary's
This past week my group and I provided games and activities in the beginning for the students to practice and demonstrate the basic motor skills: stationary bounce, kick. It was kid of frustrating when the students arrived that half of them ran to the bleachers and refused to participate.Although, the few students who did participate performed the basic motor skills well and a few struggled. One student who I could tell might have been a bit younger than the other student's couldn't dribble a ball. I worked with him and gave him some special attention but he still got discouraged. He said: "I can't do it" I told him he could with some practice. I also told him not to say he can't do something. A big thing for these kids is having us come in. We are role models to these kids and provide support for physical education and far more. Check out this link to see my lab five review!
Monday, November 14, 2011
Check out these dribbling skills!
Click this out to see these dibbling skills and this young kid's talent and high work ethic!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Halloween at St. Mary's
This week at St. Mary's was wild because of Halloween! The kids were excited to go trick or treating which was difficult to keep their attention. The majority of the parent picked up their kids early. So leading activities later on in the lab was a challenge. Most of us Cortland teacher candidates dressed up and many students loved it and clung on to us. Click the link below to see more about the fine details about lab 4 at St. Mary's.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Spicing it up with Sports for Lab 3
The children this week became more familiar with us especially wearing
the sports jersey's. At first, the small tag games we played on the
playground was fun and many of the kids try to cling on to us like we
are older brother's, sister's, or cousins. The majority of the kids were
active for the whole time outside which is great. At one point, I asked
a student to play another game of mine and they said they were tired.
Later, when I read to the kid's, I really sparked their imagination.
Doing that was a good way to keep their attention. Once while I was
reading one or two kids were so excited about the book, they were being
disruptive but I kept reading to the students and didn't try to talk
over them and it brought the noise level down and their attention right
back to the book. Afterwards, a teacher praised me for the teaching
strategy. Click here to read more.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Day 2 at St. Mary's
Day number two at St. Mary's Catholic school was a good learning experience. I learned and incorporated some new teaching strategies. When I taught my activity, I captured their attention by relating to them with a movie 'Finding Nemo' that related to my game. Next time with my directions, I will make them shorter and precise to avoid loosing the kids attention. During my game I integrated a good habit. Encouraging the students to put the balls back into the basket after getting tagged helps them remember to put things away. Just like at home, helping the students pick up after themselves. Incorporating good habits. I felt I kept my composure through the game and I used a whistle while leading so the students knew who was giving direction. Check this link to see more about teaching strategies and the kid's abilities observed.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Summary of Chapters 1-3
Summary of Chapters
1-3
Devon
Howard
PED 201 Section 600
Professor Yang
September 19, 2011
Howard
1
Today, our youth
doesn’t get near the enough physical activity that it should. This needs to
change. Examples used in the book like increases of obesity, early puberty,
school violence make a convincing argument that the kids of our youth are not
doing things right. From chapter one, movement skill learning and physical
fitness are crucial to lifetime wellness and play. Learning the fundamentals
like learning to move and setting goals for children are associated with
lifelong success and is a way to steer clear of obesity and violence in
children. Motor development and motor skills closely correlate to physical
fitness and health related fitness. Skills these kids learn early in life carry
along with into adulthood. Cognitive learning is based on thinking. By means of
physical education, thinking plays a large role in learning. Attitude,
character and moral are aspects of positive socialization. P.E, sports, or
recreation forces students to interact with others; mostly by play. Play should
be carried out through life, not just childhood in my opinion.
During
adolescence, kids grow differently physically and on different scales. Some
factors that affect childhood growth are nutrition, physical activity, illness
and the lifestyle at home. Growth retardation is a terrible thing that is
influenced by malnutrition. Mostly in the first five years of life. Childhood obesity
is a huge problem in today’s society and is not getting better. Obesity and
it’s affect on or children impact motor development. The parents are to blame
in my opinion. In children, activity promotes muscle development. Physical
activity is necessary for strong, healthy kids. Secular trends means that our
lifestyles have changed; causing or children to be heavier, taller
Howard 2
and to mature sexually at an
earlier age compared children generations ago. Children’s development is based
a lot on basic locomotor skills and motor, cognitive, and affective
characteristics.
Young
kids might not understand the importance of developing movement skills. But
teachers teach through play. There are three categories of movement. Stability,
locomotion, and manipulation can be organized according to different sport
skill themes. Stability movement skills are basic like stretching. Locomotor
are easy as walking/running. Manipulative skills consist or catching throwing
or bouncing. These stability, locomotor and manipulative skills are
choreographed into a sport or the art of making a layup in basketball. The best
part is that students from a young age learn these skills through play. The
most important part of this chapter in my opinion is encouragement. Us as teachers
need to encourage encouragement! Kids need to believe they are needed and have
support. Motivating kids is important to benefit learning and being a positive
role model to the students.
http://www.fireagility.com/jobspecifictraining.php
Do you see a problem?
Why do so many people of our generation downgrade physical education?
What's gone wrong? Why do many of our peers look at phys. ed. as a joke,
or not a real class/subject? I've heard "it's just 'gym' class," to
many times!
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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