I am delighted that I am about to fulfil my ambition of becoming a PE teacher. It has been a long and intense process with a number of highs and lows along the way. This training process has taught me so much in such a short amount of time and has really enabled me to develop into […]
Towards the end of my final school placement I spent a long time assessing and marking my KS3 classes in order to give them their final end of year grade for PE. This involved marking and grading my student’s end of year theory tests as well as giving my students a practical grade based on […]
My passion for Physical Education stems from the fantastic opportunities the subject has given me in my life. I would now like to give something back by making this subject as engaging and rewarding for students as I have found it. With obesity levels in the UK at an all-time high the importance of students […]
Setting rules and high expectations is extremely important and should be applied by teachers in all of their classes. It is vitally important to be consistent in handing out sanctions if these rules and expectations are broken. From my own experience working in schools, when teachers have been inconsistent in applying sanctions, then setting rules and high expectations can […]
In my second placement school I was given a year 10 boys GCSE practical class to teach once a week. In this lesson students were learning how to play the game of Badminton to GCSE standard. In this lesson in particular we were learning how to perform a ‘smash shot’ and a ‘drop shot’ with the aim […]
Below is an example of a lesson I taught recently in which I used the SPORT EDUATION MODEL (Siedentop, 1984). This model really helped me to teach a well structured PE lesson. I tried this as it was a model I had researched in depth for an assignment and which I had observed work really well. I found […]
At the start of my training course I had a really valuable learning experience when I was asked to set up and run a PE information room for my schools open evening. The aim of this was to promote the PE department and outline the structure of PE at GCSE level for the potential new […]
Working in a Croydon primary school for two days recently was a really good experience which helped me start to gain an understanding of how teachers of year 6 bridge the gap between primary and secondary transition for students. I spent two days observing and assisting a year 6 class who were learning a number of different […]
A few weeks ago I had a really good example of where I had to use TS7 effectively during a lesson. The lesson was a year 8 Core PE lesson where the student’s where playing a game of Dodgeball, and I was assisting/observing the lesson. The game of Dodgeball requires students ‘to eliminate all players […]
