1. The PE Teacher
Heart of the matter

2. Not an easy job

3. Right Field http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMovZ_qCRJ0 Discussion Qs
What issues are brought out by this song?
Do you personally identify with this song in any way?
What changes could we make to a softball lesson where one S is always in right field?
How can we make “right fielders” enjoy PA for a lifetime?
How often does this scenario play out in real life?

4. Q&A What is meant by inclusive practices?
How can you make your classroom a positive place for learning and connections with physical activity (Right fielders, p.5)

5. Developmentally Appropriate Practices (Activities) DAP/DAA
Address the developmental levels among learners in a class or age group of students or participants.
Provide activities that guarantee successful experiences for all students or participants and provide individual challenges for the athletically gifted, the below average, as well as the average learner.
Differentiation part of lesson plan template
Ensure success and provide challenges
Utilize developmentally appropriated equipment

6. A Place for Everyone
Activity experiences should be appropriate for the developmental level of all students.
Differentiated instruction – adjusting task or language for low and high performers including students with disabilities
The “less physically educated” are more of our focus. Why?
This can be challenging for us

7. A Place for Everyone Age appropriate
Equipment sized and weighted for success
One ball for every child

8. Should all or most students watch others performing “on stage?”

9. Should 24 students wait to share one pencil?

10. Learning Time Codes (ALTPE)
An observation technique that determines the percentage of time a student in PE spends in each of the following categories/codes.
6 categories (WAM TKO – acronym)
Wait time
Activity time
Management time
Transition time
Knowledge time
Off-task time

11. Learning time codes Example assignment
Know each of the codes and what they stand for

12. Learning time codes Eliminate elimination Use small sided games
To promote better percentages:
Eliminate elimination
Use small sided games
Wait time is your enemy (standing around)
When students are provided with simply “time on task” it may actually be a counter- productive period of time and/or activity.

13. OTL Opportunities to Learn
Defined as each time a student performs a skill or interacts with a concept that you are trying to teach.
Examples: bump a volleyball, position themselves in zone, hit a golf ball
Why is this more accurate than simply measuring activity time?
Consider 3 v 3 soccer as opposed to 11 v 11 soccer
Hierarchy of importance
OTLs
Activity time (ALT-PE)
Time on task

14. Appropriate Practices
These documents “represent expert consensus about important appropriate and inappropriate practices observed frequently in elementary school”
Elementary School
Middle School
High School

15. Feedback
Important to provide feedback to students regarding what they are doing well and/or may need to improve.
This is one of the most challenging things you will learn!
Types of feedback: general (+-), specific (+-)and corrective
As a student teacher, you will analyze feedback and will be responsible for it in each PE pedagogy class
Example - What might you say to this student?

17. Teaching Styles
Teacher Centered – teacher runs the show, students duplicate or mimic the teacher’s understandings
1. Command
2. Practice (includes task, stations)
3. Reciprocal
4. Self-Check
5. Self-Selection

18. Teaching Styles
Student Centered – students have more control and choice in class. Students “create” their understandings.
6. Guided Discovery (includes convergent)
7. Problem Solving (divergent, exploration)
8. Individual Program/Exploration
Summary Document

19. Success Rate
Teacher should adjust activities so that task is not too easy (boredom) or too hard (frustration)
Challenge progresses or builds from previous learning

20. Positive Environment/Personal & Social Responsibility
SHAPE standard 4
Again, the environment in class ties into our ability to promote lifetime physical activity.
It should be a positive place regardless of ability or other factors
Tools:
Hellison’s Model (not on exam)
Level of involvement scale (not on exam)

21. Video
What were some successful teaching strategies the teacher employed?
Write your answers down
Video

22. Observation Sheet Observation of Teaching Rubric
Graded on a sliding scale for your peer teaching assignment

23. Athletics 
Physical Education

24. Community Partnerships
Local & national businesses
Fitness centers
Boys & Girls Clubs, YMCAs
Community centers
Hospitals, clinics
Churches, synagogues
City Parks and Rec Depts.

25. Ts Must Stay Up to Date
Being a professional means continually evolving and improving
What’s “HOT”!
Mountain Biking
Tae Bo
Insanity
Zumba
Methods
SHAPE Et Cetera
CDC Listserve

26. Job title?
You are a physical education teacher, a physical educator, a PE teacher or a phys ed teacher. You are not a “gym teacher” b/c you don’t teach the walls and the word “gym teacher” is often associated with old, outdated inappropriate practices.

27. Practice
Inappropriate activities made appropriate by you!

28. SHAPE How does SHAPE define quality PE? Standards
Appropriate Practices (ES, MS, HS)
PE Teacher Evaluation Tool
Teacher’s Toolbox
Position Statements
Much more

29. Quality PE Activity