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Use these activities to help you develop all aspects of your teaching. There are proformas that you can download to help you complete these exercises. The proformas are Word documents so you can easily add your comments, save and print.

Activity 2.3: The Teacher as a Professional

(a) Teacher as a Professional 1

• List the qualities needed in all teachers, e.g. patience.
• List the qualities needed in physical education teachers.

Compare the similarities and differences in the two lists.

(b) Teacher as a Professional 2

Self-analysis. From the lists above, identify:

• aspects of your teaching that are strengths;
• aspects of your teaching that need attention.

How are you going to develop these? Identify your preferred teaching approaches and select other approaches that may need to be developed.

(c) Teacher as a Professional 3

Developing your own philosophy about what is important in physical education.
From the variety of aims of physical education identified in Chapter 1 select two
aims where physical education is an end in itself and two aims where physical
education is a means to another end. State the value of each aim selected and
support the importance of each value by identifying its justification.

• Aim 1
• Aim 2
• Aim 3
• Aim 4

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Activity 5.7: Critical analysis of the extent to which continuity and
progression exist within the physical education curriculum

Using the school's schemes of work for a Key Stage, look critically at the continuity and progression within one area of activity. Ask the following questions:

• Is the activity continuous over all years within the Key Stage?
• Does planning of the area of activity over the Key Stage show progression
  across all four strands?
• Do you feel the amount of time devoted to the activity per unit of work allows progression?
• What changes would you make to ensure better continuity and progression
  within this area of activity?

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Activity 6.11: Planning a lesson for an identified area of activity and
group of pupils

Using the lesson plan on p. 69, the proforma below, or one from your own institution, plan the next lesson to follow on from the one you have observed. In order to do this you need to do the following:

• Obtain a copy of the unit of work from which the lesson is taken.
• Discuss with the class teacher the ILOs for the next lesson, based on the
  outcomes from your discussion (see Activity 6.10).

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Activity 9.2: Academic learning time-physical education (ALT-PE)

Complete this sheet twice; once on an observation of your teaching completed by
a teacher and once by you on an observation of a lesson taken by an experienced
teacher. What differences are there in results? Reflect on what the data tells you
about your teaching and pupils' learning, then identify how you can increase the
time pupils spend actively engaged in learning.

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