My Reflection On Disturbance And Form To A Team

For my microteach Marissa and I taught the class how to successfully catch and throw a football using proper stance and form to a partner. We split up the work by having me teaching how to properly catch the football and her teach how to throw the football. Since it was a nice day we decide to take the class outside to teach our lesson. We figured there would be more space to work with, when we went outside there was no one on the field so it seemed like it would be perfect. For our lesson we used the soft footballs because there are light weight, smaller and do not hurt when they make contact. We brought out 6 hula hoops and 18 balls. We started the lesson off by leading the class in some stretches to make sure there arms were ready to throw …show more content…
Marissa gave pointers to the students like “make sure your arm is at a 90 degree angle.” Next thing we did was collect the hula hoops and have the class work on both skills by playing pass back. This time Marissa worked with the student and I walked around through the groups to give feedback. Everyone seemed to be applying their skills of catching and throwing. I made sure tell remind them to use their fingertips and not their palms or their chests. Some groups started a little too far from each other so I suggested that they might want to move in closer so to their partner so that they could practice their aim. As an extension we said if you and your partner complete 6 complete passed you could take two steps back and for those who wanted they could have their partners move around to create more of a challenge. Everyone eventually got to this point so then wanted to add a little bit of an obstacle to the mix. We split some of the groups up and made groups of three to play monkey in the middle. We told the groups when do switch positions so that everyone was the …show more content…
I had never taught a lesson like that before. I learned a lot of usefully tips in the peer feedback and just looking back in what we did. One thing I learned is that time is everything, it is very important to make sure you have a good amount of time for things. Some things require more time than others and if there is too much time you loose the students interest. Having a back up plan or extra activities for these “in case” moments are every important. This came in handy at the end of our lesson when we decided to play a larger game of keep away because we had extra time. During our peer feedback one of the things that came up was that we played monkey in the middle for too long which we had a feeling it would come up because when were doing it we realized its was getting to be too long and we could tell they were losing interest so we made up the keep away game. Everyone seemed to like the keep away game and someone mentioned that we should have played that longer. During peer observation, everyone said that could hear us nice and clear even when they were spread out. They all really like our teaching demos which was good because neither one of us had played football before. We used back to the wall method so that we could see the students at the time to give feedback and so that they could see us. Everyone participated with great attitudes so it made teaching really fun. There were a few safety concerns