Lab C

I thought my lesson today went pretty well. I thought I did well explaining the directions and leading the class into "harder" tasks. It was a fun lesson I enjoyed doing the lesson on wheelchair basketball because I love basketball and it makes me look at it in a different way. It is really cool that they developed wheelchair basketball into a professional level. It gives hope to those who need it and I thought it was fun doing this lesson. As far as how I taught. Well I thought that I explained everything that I needed too. However I felt that I could of been a little big more organized, with what I was going to say. For some reason this Lab had me a little bit more nervous than the other ones. I am comfortable speaking in front of the class and I am confident in what I am going to say, but there was something about this lab that made me feel a little nervous. I got through it and I thought everyone in the class cooperated with me and was great.
I could of given a lot more feedback to the class. I got caught up in the lesson, but I thought that the feedback I did give was useful. The one thing that I forgot to do was demonstrate the activities. I had it written down in my lesson plan but for some odd reason I forgot to pinpoint and use students in the class to demonstrate. There were not enough wheelchairs for the class and I had them rotate which went well and everyone did a great job with that. Another thing that I personally thought I did wrong was I went too quickly into the three man weave I should of progressed to that with other tasks. I no know for the next time.
To conclude I think that it went well and the areas that I need to improve on I will work on for Lab D and I am pretty excited for it.

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I thought My lesson went well. It was kind of frustrating to begin with because I am not that good at jump roping so it was hard to explain to the class what to do when I had little experience with the lesson as well. In my lesson I started getting triped up on my words, I do not know why, I feel it had something to do with the fact that I spent all that time trying to rehearse it that I was trying to get through it too quickly. I feel that I am improving on my delivery, and poise. I am a lot more comfortable up there teaching to my peers, Which to me I think is harder then teaching to younger students. I am excited for Labs C and D just as long as it does not involve Jump Roping activities. The people who went in front of me did a great job teaching and I try to pick out pieces of their teaching style and incorporate it with mine. I thought everyone did an excellent job. If there is one thing that I take from my Time Coding sheet is that I spent too much time giving Instructions when I should of planned for it to be more Activity time.



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Jump Rope

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I thought that my Lesson this time went well. I thought i used a loud "Gym" voice, and gave clear directions. I felt alot more comfortable being up there this time. It was an easy lesson and skill to teach in the amount of time that I had. Everyone cooperated with me and did a great job. I thought I did a good job facing the class the majority of the time. These progressions are definitely helping me out and making me feel more comfortable every time I teach. (TIME CODING)

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This Feedback Analysis form shows me who I have been talking to within my lesson group and who I have given feedback to. The feedback could either be about the person exhibiting good/bad behavior, or it could be based on their skill whether it would be good/bad. I like this Form because it helps give me a sense of who I am talking to/not and about what. In this case I only spoke to 4 people about the same thing. In my future teachings I want to be able to spread the feedback around to more people and give more of it. I only had 4 minutes of lesson time so not much feedback could be given, but I still think I should of given more feedback then this.

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Fun Friday

Fridays class was fun. We got to teach a skill just like the first day of class. This time we were aware of the fact that we would be doing this. Also I noticed with myself and all of the other people in my group that we improved a bit compared to our first lesson videos. Everyone had better explanations, and used their "Gym Voices". I had more fun this time then I did last time. I feel as the semester moves on everyone is getting more and more comfortable around each other, and we are not afraid of making a mistake during class because this is where you want to make the mistakes and learn from them. It is fun learning to teach this way, and I look forward to the next lesson we have to teach in the near future.

Time Coding

When I take a look at the Time Coding Form I get an idea of where my time is going. I can analyze and see how long am I giving Instructions, How long the kids are Active, and with this I can see where I need to improve on. I like this form because it informs me and helps for the future plans because I can refine my lessons to fit certain needs for certain activities. I need to work on cutting down the time I use to give instructions, which would allow for more time being active. The next time I teach I am going to try and work on getting straight to the point and giving all important information in a short coherent manner.

PED 255 "Quick Demo"

Compared to my first video, I say that this clip is a little bit better in some aspects. Compared to the last video I thought that this video I was louder, I thought I explained myself well in the video. There is a part in the video where there is a sudden stop on my behalf, it was not because I was stuck I thought that Professor Yang was trying to grab my attention but he was not. However even as a teacher if I am explaining a lesson to my class and someone wants me they would have to wait until I was finished talking, so that was a good test however the next time that happens I am sure I will not be as effected. I think I should slow down the speed in which I talk. It seemed too fast even for me.

I talk with my hands a lot when I am explaining things and one thing I notice is that I grab my hands while I was explaining the task. I feel like talking with your hands is not necessarily a bad thing however I want to improve on not grabbing them and saying "Ummm" as much. It kind of makes it seem like I am nervous (Which I am not) and not comfortable up there. The intent of the message was communicated clearly. For the task that I was demonstrating I think that this was easy to understand. Now of course if there was an actual class and I had equipment, my own gym, etc. I could have done more with it, but the 3 points I made about hitting were accurate and fairly easy to understand the task. The next time I teach I would use the same key points as this lesson, I would just slow down a little more, use less of my hands, I could still be louder, and I would add a little bit more detail/explanation as to why we are doing this activity, and I would elaborate on why we want to remember those 3 key points.