PSYHICAL EDUACATION LESSON PLAN- ED 3501

Task 1: Analysis and Evaluation of the Alberta Education Program of Study

The purpose of the POS for Physical Education is to teach children

knowledge, skills and attitudes about why the subject area is so important through
knowledge, skills and attitudes. The overarching theme of this subject area is to
teach children that living healthy, active, and manageable lifestyles, they will
succeed much further, live much longer, and feel much better throughout their
lifetime. The goal is to reach out to children that with the use of physical education,
they can create positive futures and create a better way of living.

Some of the knowledge, skills and attitudes are embedded within having and
living an active and healthy lifestyle, but how each of those are viewed depend on
the child and what they believe each mean to them. Giving students knowledge on
how being healthy, active, goal driven, confident, positive, successful etc. can lead to
a better life is very important in this subject area. Within each area of physical
education and the attributes listed above, it is important to take into consideration
the meaning of each term means something different to every student. With that
being said, each attribute can be taught in a broader sense, and can be narrowed
down accordingly to the student as long as they are following your lesson within the
POS. Having a desire to participate is very important within the subject area of
Physical Education, and it is our responsibility as teachers to preach how important
the subject area is and how it will benefit each childs life. Having experience does
not matter within physical education, because at each level, giving your best,
participating, exercising within the realm of vigorous activity is acceptable and can
be improved on within the allotted time in the school year.

The discipline of Physical Education progresses throughout years passing as

level of participation, ability, confidence etc. raises. Grouped into grades in sections
of three, there are general criteria that describe what will change as years progress.
Below the shifts/ stages/ and steps are described:

K-3: Students will experience, develop and perform basic locomotor, non-
locomotor, and manipulative skills and respond to stimuli in a variety of
activities
3-6: Students will select, perform and refine more challenging locomotor,
non- locomotor and manipulative sequences in a confident and consistent
matter.
6-9: Students will demonstrate ways to improve, refine and apply locomotor,
non- locomotor and manipulative sequences for personal performance.
 10-12: Students will analyze, adapt and evaluate locomotor, non- locomotor,
and manipulative sequences and concepts for personal performance.

The key opportunities to take into consideration when teaching this subject area
open up immensely as the sky is the limit with physical education. This is a subject
area that you can be very organized, concise and specific or an area where you can
be free-willing, open minded and creative. Depending on the individual teaching,
and the group of the students, each plan can be mended accordingly, which is the
best part about this discipline. As there are many great opportunities while teaching
P.E. come challenges as well. Some of these challenges entail that not every student
enjoys the idea or participating in physical activity. They learn best through a
pencil/paper format and not by hands on learning activity, so it is a struggle for
those students to become engaged. Sometimes, depending on the class, it is difficult
to motivate different kinds of learners/ individuals to participate because of their
pre-operational bias they have formed about the class. One more challenge while
teaching this discipline is that each child in your class will be at a different level of
skill, knowledge, confidence, health etc. and you as the teacher have to
accommodate and challenge those who will fall behind and motivate and keep those
who are exceeding expectations moving forward.

Connected to the challenges and opportunities for anyone teaching Physical

Education comes advice to help aid in the struggle of teaching this discipline.
Some tips to offer would be:
Have an objective, general, and specific outcomes for each lesson
o An example of Objective would be:

o An example of general outcome would be:

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o Some examples of specific outcomes would be:

 Try to find an activity for each lesson that will interest all types of learners
that are at different levels within the physical activity realm
Get to know your students, what do they like? What do they dislike?
o If the majority of the class dislikes basketball, possibly exclude
basketball from your plans and substitute basketball with pickle ball,
soccer, creative games that involve passing, dribbling, scoring etc.
Create games within the lesson where every student in the class can succeed
in. If introducing different levels, or various ways of playing each game is
what you have to do to see success, then you are on the right track.
Do not focus your lessons on competition; focus your lessons on
empowerment, improvement, success, and most of all, fun.
Create opportunities within your lesson for the students to choose the
activity. Possibly this will allow for more participation, activity, effort,
success etc.
ALWAYS leave time/ room in your lesson for alterations.