Stereotypes from past experiences as well as the media have almost formed how most individuals view a physical education teacher. Most people have an idea of what a “good” phys-ed teacher and also what a “bad” phys-ed teacher should be like. Personally, a good physical education teacher should be athletic, a good leader or role model, a strong communicator, confident in their abilities, motivational, organized, creative, and enthusiastic. There are plenty other characteristics that a phys-ed teacher could possess that make them a great teacher, however only these will be touched on. On the other hand a few undesired characteristics that could make a phys-ed teacher seem bad are: mean, bad with people skills, condescending, temperamental,
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Starting with my strengths, I have always been athletic as I grew up playing almost every sport and acquired enough skills to do well in most other activities that may be new to me. I have assumed leadership roles on most of my sports team at one time or another, and in a number of projects at school. I do not see this as a huge strength at this time because my experience in leading as a teacher is fairly limited. However I hope to change this throughout this year with my multiple experiences in this class and others. Communication skills are something that can always be worked on and improved. I feel like my ability to listen is far superior to my ability to express myself verbally although I am comfortable with talking in front of large groups of people. Another strength I have is that I am good at keeping an optimistic look on things, it takes a lot to get me into a negative state of mind. I think keeping positive would come in handy when working with the students when developing new skills as it would keep them positive and they would continue to keep trying and that could be what they need to succeed. Lastly, I try to live a healthy active lifestyle myself. To me this is essential when teaching physical education as it would be hard to get the point across of teaching healthy habits and how to live a healthy active lifestyle if you yourself do not follow
Starting with my strengths, I have always been athletic as I grew up playing almost every sport and acquired enough skills to do well in most other activities that may be new to me. I have assumed leadership roles on most of my sports team at one time or another, and in a number of projects at school. I do not see this as a huge strength at this time because my experience in leading as a teacher is fairly limited. However I hope to change this throughout this year with my multiple experiences in this class and others. Communication skills are something that can always be worked on and improved. I feel like my ability to listen is far superior to my ability to express myself verbally although I am comfortable with talking in front of large groups of people. Another strength I have is that I am good at keeping an optimistic look on things, it takes a lot to get me into a negative state of mind. I think keeping positive would come in handy when working with the students when developing new skills as it would keep them positive and they would continue to keep trying and that could be what they need to succeed. Lastly, I try to live a healthy active lifestyle myself. To me this is essential when teaching physical education as it would be hard to get the point across of teaching healthy habits and how to live a healthy active lifestyle if you yourself do not follow