Sick of Those High Paid Teachers?

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Sick of Those High Paid Teachers?

• I, for one, am sick and tired of those high paid
  teachers. Their hefty salaries are driving up
  taxes, and they only work nine or ten months a
  year! It's time we put things in perspective and
  pay them for what they do...baby-sit!
• We can get that for less than minimum wage.
  That's right. I would give them 3.00 dollars an
  hour and only the hours they worked, not any of
  that silly planning time. That would be 15
  dollars a day. Each parent should pay 15 dollars
  a day for these teachers to baby-sit their
  children. Now, how many do they teach in a
  day.... maybe 25. Then that's 15 X 25 375 a
  day. But remember, they only work 180 days a
  year! I'm not going to pay them for any
  vacations. Let's see...That's 375 x180
  67,500.00
• (Hold on, my calculator must need batteries!)
• What about those special teachers or the ones
  with master's degrees? Well, we could pay them
  minimum wage just to be fair. Let's round it off
  to 6.00 an hour. That would be 6 times 5 hours
  times 25 children times 180 days 135,000.00
  per year.
• Wait a minute, there is something wrong here!!!
  THERE SURE IS!!
• Make a teacher smile send this to him or her!

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Skill Theme Striking with Paddles

• Teaching Focus
• Back To The Basics

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General ConsiderationsStriking with Paddles

• Visual tracking is not developed or refined until
  the later elementary years
• Hand-eye coordination at distances from the body
  with smaller implements is more difficult
• Teach using paddles after striking with body
  parts specifically the hand
• (MANY OF YOUR LESSONS WILL START WITH HAND
  STRIKING)

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Levels of Proficiency

• Striking very slow or stationary balls
• Dropping and contacting after a bounce
• Striking to a target or over a net
• Contacting repeatedly
• Striking cooperatively with a partner
• Striking to hit to open spaces (strategy)

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Pre-Control Activities

• Lengthen and slow down the flight
• Balloons, balls suspended from ropes
• Balancing balls/balloons on a paddle
• Stationary then walking
• Striking in the air (levels)
• Striking to hit the wall
• Hitting upwards in a row (3 or 4)

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Control Activities

• Continuously hitting a ball down
• Hitting up continuously
• Alternates
• Striking forwards (then continuous rebounding)
• Both sides of the paddle
• Striking to wall, then wall targets
• Varying the force
• Sidearm forehand and backhand patterns
• Striking over a net

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Utilization Activities

• Hit back to a partner
• Begin with toss always to the same side
• Hitting cooperatively with a partner
• Striking overhead
• Over a net
• Continuous team volleying

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Beginning Cues

• Flat paddle
• Watch the ball
• Stiff wrist

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Intermediate Cues

• Paddle way back
• Opposite foot
• Slanted paddle
• Follow through

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Advanced Cues

• Quick feet
• Bend the knees
• Get home

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• In your Teaching Groups Brainstorm Striking
  Tasks with Hands and/or Paddles