Planning

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Planning

• How to Survive Being a Teacher

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Importance of

• Most important non student contact aspect of your
  job
• Plan ahead
• Prepare to be flexible
• Plan a month or a semester at a time
• Save your sanity
• Guide your decisions
• Know where you are going

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Why do it?

• Crucial to your success as a teacher
• Crucial to the success of your students having
  various learning experiences opportunities
• Necessary evil of teaching

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Considerations when planning

• Class sizebigger is NOT better
• Frequency of meetingtwice a week? Every day? 30
  minutes? 20 minutes?
• Equipment facilities1 jump rope for 15
  children? Lunch room is your gym? South Dakota
  winters?
• Students characteristicstrustworthy? Naughty
  class? Cooperative students? troublemakers?

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• Students skill level interestsjunior jocks,
  chatty Chuckies, lazy Lindas, sweat free
  Steves
• have to challenge all your students provide
  opportunites for them to experience true success
  in a physical education setting

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Book recommendations for planning

• Four steps involved
• Develop a scope sequence
• Develop a yearly plan
• Days given to each movement concept skill theme
• Deciding on what aspects youll focus--BENCHMARKS
• Develop daily lesson plans

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Scope sequence

• Scopetells what is included what isnt
• SD not going to teach water skiiing FL not going
  to teach cross country skiing
• Sequenceorder of skills taught at what grade
  level
• Beginning teachersNO CONTROL over S S already
  decided and developed changes made only when
  curriculum reviewed which occurs every 5 10
  years in a system.

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Yearly Plan

• How much time given to each concept or skill
• Adopt, if possible, less is more principle
• Lower levels emphasis on concepts
• Upper levels on skill themes
• Put into yearly calendar
• Put in order that allows optimal learning
• Beginning new concept children need longer time
  to learn major ideas

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Yearly plan (contd)

• Older the children, longer they can stay on same
  skill theme
• Better to go smaller units and do several times
  during a year or semester then one long unit
• Generally make one major task focus of the days
  lesson
• Have control over this aspect of teaching your
  subject
• Include cooperation with other teachers

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Benchmarks

• Assess students as go through program
• Assures students are learning what you want them
  to learn
• Critical elements of a skill or concept
• Should be done ahead of time
• Ask self What are key elements of a skill?
• Build upon one another

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Sample benchmarks

• NASPE standard 1Comp. many movement forms and
  profiency in a few movement forms.
• Benchmarks
• Travels in forward and sideways directions using
  a variety of locomotor patterns and changes
  direction quickly in response to a signal.
• Demonstrates clear contrast between slow and fast
  movement while traveling.
• Walks and runs using mature form.
• Rolls sideways without hesitating or stopping.
• Tosses a ball and catches it before it bounces
  twice.

Moving into the Future National Standards for
Physical Education A Guide to Content Assessment.
1995. The National Association for Sport and
Physical Education.
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Daily Lesson Plans

• Be specific
• Use various resources modify as needed to match
  your specific class needs
• Lesson plans should include the following
• Skill level of classgenerally speaking
• Length of time30 minute class?
• Major focus subfocuspurpose for that lesson(s)
• Objectiveswhat children are to learn

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• Materials/equipmentknow what you need before you
  need it
• Organization/managementhow want students
  organized how going to get them there
• Introductionmost IMPORTANT element give
  children an idea (cognitive) of what they are
  going to learn
• Task developmentspecific tasks activities for
  the lesson
• Closureshort amount of time at end of lesson
  summarize what learned or worked on
• Reflectiondid it work? Did it stink? Make
  better? Change? NEVER do it again?

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Choice of formats to use.

• TextMUST ADD STANDARDS and Benchmarks
• http//www.students.dsu.edu/verlindd/portfolio/tem
  plate.html
• http//www.students.dsu.edu/noyesj/portfolio/templ
  ate.html

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Final Thoughts

• Planning is STRESSFUL at times FRUSTRATING
• Try different things
• Plan for your students success
• Focus on your students best interests and NOT
  making your life easier

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• Best lessons planned may stink
• Learn, modify, and adapt to each class and
  situation
• Be FLEXIBLE
• Get all your students involved and encourage
  PRACTICE and PATIENCE in your students
  yourself. (not always easy on your bad days)