Teaching PE is very different from any other kind of teaching that I have done, hands down! The day before and the morning of, there were a bit of nerves (as per usual), but this time I drew on my past experience of teaching during a practicum and I went into what I like to call: Teacher Mode. My voice was loud, I was prepared to give instructions (or at least I thought I was anyway), and my group and I had worked a lot about how we were going to teach.

Thinking back onto how the lesson went, I think that we could have done a better job with the flow of the lesson. Going outside just for the warm-up was for timing reasons, and I think we could have saved ourselves a lot of problems if we had picked another activity for the warmup. However, I did like the warmup that we chose because it was meant to introduce the idea of being mindful of the space around us and the people around us, which lead into being careful during volley-crosse.

I really liked the idea of changing up the difficulty of a game, but using the same rules. I never experienced that during my years taking PE and it is definitely something that I will keep in mind for my practicum!

One final thought that I had on teaching was the behaviour of the class. Since we are all adults in the class, we are all inclined to just listen and do what is asked of us, however I am sure in a real class situation, the lesson could have been infinitely more difficult.

Out of all of my classes that I have this semester, it was PE that I was most excited about. I know that I am not the best at anything, nor will I probably ever be, but I do love to have fun and my memories from PE are all positive ones (with the exception of one or two). I decided that no matter who was in my cohort that this class was going to be awesome even before the first class. Turns out I was right, and I think a lot of that had to do with the wonderful people in my cohort and their willingness to be vulnerable and taking a risk in front of everyone else (people who we are still getting to know no less!) and jump into the activities without a second thought.

I am really looking forward to the rest of this course. Who wouldn’t be with activities such as “Mission Impossible”? I am looking forward to trying new things and even making mistakes because, I am not good at everything and there are probably things that I am horrible at, and that is okay because nobody is perfect.

I was very surprised at some of the activities that are in the PE Hall of Shame. Many of the activities are obvious (ex. Red Rover, Student on Display, etc). However, there are a few that are on the list that I witnessed happen in the PE classes during my last practicum! I wonder if the PE teacher knows about the Hall of Shame?