Overall I believe that lesson went fairly well it was not my best lesson but there

where some points tat I was proud of and could take to future teaching.
When you watched the video of yourself teaching, what did you notice?
What stood out to you about the way you teach?
From reviewing my own teaching I have noticed that I can be a little wordy and
repetitive at times. I could be more clear and use less time if confidently explained a
technique once and then allow for questions rather then explaining and re-explaining
to try to fill in details that I had left out. I also found that I was spending a good
amount of time walking around the gymnasium observing when activities where
going on but I did not give a whole lot of feedback. I definitely could have done better
at giving praise, and could have made more general class feedback rather then
specifically working pair by pair. I also have a habit of turning my back to part of the
class. Positives I noticed where my tone and volume of voice, I think that I am fairly
confident being in front of a group, I may just need to slow down my mental pace a
little bit and not take myself to seriously while teaching.
What where your learning objectives for your lesson? What did you do to
try to accomplish your objectives? Did you accomplish your objectives? How
do you know you did?
The Learning Objectives for my lesson roughly where for students by the end of class
to know the cage grip, and be confortable with handling and passing the rugby ball,
as well as understanding how to stay onside. Looking at it now I can see how that is a
really very lofty goal to achieve in 30min even without considering an exit slip, intro
and transitions.
To accomplish these objectives I tried to use a strait flowing structure through all
three skills. Each skill would be introduced as a group, practiced in partners, then
used as part of a game. This would create scaffolding for students to gain confidence
and competence with each skill before putting it into practice in a game like situation.
Through out the games I tried to incorporate teamwork and reiterate previously
learned skills as much as possible
Obviously the final objective of understanding offside was not reached because the
activity related to staying onside was never used, But from the responses that I
received on the exit slip I believe that the first three objectives (cage grip, handling,
passing) where met for the majority of the class. 17 of the 24 students said that they
felt their passing and handling skills where sufficient to play rugby game at a PE level
or higher. Of those who rated themselves lower then this level only one student said
that they needed a skill to be explained, and most said they needed just a little more
help with passing. Perhaps the results would have looked different if we had time for
the third activity (3 passes), but regardless I as a teacher know that I would need to
do brief review of passing at the start of next class to help everyone achieve the first
three learning objective before moving on to the next skill.
Describe the type and amount of feedback you gave to students.
As Previously mentioned I think that the amount of feedback that I gave to the
students was quite limited. I did give correctional feedback to particular students,
and on a couple occasions I gave feedback to the entire class, but I failed to give
encouraging and positive feedback, or to really sum up the performance that I saw at
the end of the lesson. I have found that in coaching giving positive feedback come
easily because there are specific times to give it, after a player comes off the field or
court, at halftime, or as one player is performing a drill. I have found that with
multiple groups, or one large group active at one time in a gym I get a little
overwhelmed and forget to let what I am thinking be verbalized. Something to work
on this semester!

Describe your voice level, enthusiasm, and knowledge.

I felt that my voice level was perfect for the circumstance but my enthusiasm could
have gone up a couple notches. I just kind of presented instead of getting students
involved more activity and less talk would lend a hand to this too. As far as
knowledge goes I felt that I was well prepared to instruct and answer questions. I
dont feel that my knowledge base would have been enough to coach these skills but
for PE I felt confident and Competent. I was not familiar with rugby before this
assignment but rugbysidestepcentral.com proved to be a great resource!
Describe how students responded to your teaching.
I feel that the students in the class responded well to my teaching style, honestly a
little too well. I think the class helped me out then a real PE 20 class would. In a real
Sr. high PE situation I fell that the long instruction times would have been more
detrimental then they where today. In order to keep students engaged I think that I
will have to adjust my instruction time, include more games and perhaps
competition, wile also showing a little more enthusiasm.
What was the best Part about your lesson? Why do you think this was?
To me The best part of my lesson was the assessment. The exit slip gave me a clear
indication of where I would go next as a teacher. Quick passing refresher into the 3
Pass drill, then stepping that up to include defenders to really get a game type
situation involved. Then If I had extra time I would go on to a new skill rotation of an
offensive line of defensive positioning. This would give the students the more games
and playing time that they said that they wanted in the exit slips, and it would also
give opportunity for all students in the class to become comfortable with handling
passing and the offside rule before moving on. I wish I could teach this lesson!
What Part of your lesson didnt go as well as it could have? What could you
do in the future to improve upon this?
Part of the lesson that could have one better for me was my timing as mentioned by
me peers in the exit slip and before in this reflection I spent to much time talking and
it took away from time that the students could have had to practice skills. in the
future I would like to have less time for instruction and more time for practice or
student self learning. Perhaps nest time I could not try to push for learning threes
skills and just have more games for two skill. Other ways to correct this problem may
be being more concise in instruction, having routines to spend less time on classroom
management, or assigning students to research and come prepared to teach their
peers a technique or skill.
Describe your spontaneous combustion, how did you handle the hot
spot, was this appropriate and is there anything you could have done
better in the future?
The spontaneous combustion was a girl who did not want to participate because she
had forgotten her gym clothes. All she had to where was uggs and sweats. I noticed
that for street shoes her uggs where clean, and where not tracking dirt or mud onto
the gym floor, so I explained that there would be some actives in that class that
would require running and some that would not. For the activities that did not require
running or jumping I said that she could participate, and for the running activities I
asker her to observe. In one activity where running was involved I asked the student
to just walk through the motions, I noticed that she was clearly not enjoying herself
and asked her how she was doing. She told me that she want having fun because she
[couldnt] really do anything without gym shoes. I then just encouraged her to do
her best for now, and asked of she would remember gym strip for next class. She said
yes.

This is a tuff situation to come into on the fly, As a teacher I would want to stick with
school policy or the PE policy set up at the first of the year. I have been in schools
that require students to sit out if they have forgotten their gym strip, others
encourage gym strip but make participation the priority. If it was up to me I would
likely allow students participate as long as shoes and clothing where clean and did
not pose a safety hazard, but I would also attach a consequence like having to sweep
the entire floor after class, or ensure that the locker room was tidied. This would not
over punish students who genuinely forgot their shoes and also discourage not
changing for gym.
What did the information from your peer point out? How can this be
helpful?
A main point that came out of the peer evaluation was that my presence as far as
voice and command of the class was good, but at times my positioning in the class
prevented me from seeing students who where off task. In the future I van continue
to have a string presence, but ensure that that presence is felt by all students. I can
either orient the class in a way that I can see everyone or do better at orienting
myself to be in perimeter locations where all students could be seen at a glance. This
is a goal that I worked on in PSI that apparently needs to be carried over to PSII.