Going into my practicum, I thought that I would excel in teaching PE and struggle with teaching socials. \u00a0However, once I started, I realized how it is the complete opposite to my expectations. \u00a0I’m not sure if it was because I thought I would struggle with socials, so I put more effort into creating more fun lessons, or if it’s just the dynamics of the classes that I’m teaching. \u00a0With my PE class, I’m noticing that some students just want to play full games of volleyball, they did not feel motivated to try the drills and activities that I set out for them to do. \u00a0I am curious on how they will respond when I put my inquiry into practice this coming week by getting them to create their own games\/drills\/activities to teach their peers. \u00a0I wonder if they will rise to the challenge or if they will choose to want to play a “real” game of volleyball again.<\/p>\n
Putting the theory taught at UBC about classroom management into practice, I realize how well some of the theories actually work really well. \u00a0The students in my PE class that seem to disengage the most actually do what I tell them to when I use teacher presence by standing close by to them or look in their direction from time to time. \u00a0Similarly, in my socials class, students will stop talking after I try to get their attention. \u00a0When I fail to get their attention, I just stand in the middle or front of the room quietly, with my hand up and\/or looking directly at the people talking the most.<\/p>\n
This coming week I hope to find a way to engage all<\/strong><\/em> of my PE class to participate and have fun, by engaging them all at their own level. \u00a0This is why I would like to try putting my inquiry to practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Going into my practicum, I thought that I would excel in teaching PE and struggle with teaching socials. \u00a0However, once I started, I realized how it is the complete opposite to my expectations. \u00a0I’m not sure if it was because I thought I would struggle with socials, so I put more effort into creating more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1504008],"tags":[2955,1504240,286413,1504241,573],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-practicum-experience","tag-inquiry","tag-pe-10","tag-practicum","tag-socials-9","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}