Today was our second week of the Physical education session. Our first mini-assignment for today was to create a 5 minute lesson for the class that the class could do with little or no equipments.

My partner Trevor and I prepared a simple lesson of up-down-stop-go where we would shout out the instruction and the students would perform the activity. The point was to clearly deliver the instruction and also provide a fun and simple activity to get everyone going with physical activity. I felt that simpler the activity, the better it was to get others to start moving. However, we later changed the instruction a little bit to make a variation (up-down, go-stop instructions are reversed. i.e.. one must go “up” when “down” is instructed.

We then went over some key guiding questions about the day. I think the main key idea to take home was what kind of physical educator will you become? I think it is an important question to ask and I never really thought about it before. The only preconception that I had for Physical Education was playing games and other sports in school so that we get some physical activity within our daily school life. However, today’s discussion led to some other thoughts about what physical education should be doing in schools.