Welcome to my blog on my work experience!
In this blog I will be reflecting on my first week on my work placement. My reflection will be produced around Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (1988) [Refer to my blog ‘Introduction’ for more details on the model of reflection].
In terms of how the day went, the day was fairly simple as four periods consisted of just fitness (circuit training) in the dance studio with the exceptions of the Year 11s doing theory on violence and misuse of drugs in sport. You can refer back to my ‘Week One of Work Experience‘ blog for more detail on the day.
With the events in day I can say that my feelings were fairly mixed due to the fact that the lessons were all the same so there was no variety in the lessons. The exercises were all the same, the timings on each station and rest periords were all the same. This lead me to be quite bored towards the end of the day. These types of lessons restricted the chances of teaching as I was deemed more of a motivator to keeps the kids exercising. In regards to the Year 11 theory, I had a sense of relief due to the change in types of lessons. However; teaching was fairly restricted again as the pupils were given the task to complete six mark questions around the idea of violence and misuse of drugs in sport. I found myself just reading over pupils work to see if they were on the right lines, although I was not allowed to help as they were put under exam environments in preparation for their GCSEs. Overall the day wasn’t pleasing and didn’t satisfy my needs for this work placement. The first week didn’t help me towards achieving my goals.
This week made me come to the sense that not alot of teaching can be done at the moment due to the session revolving around fitness until the half term break. Year 11 theory will mainly consist of exam questions as their GCSEs are only aorund the corner so my teaching can be limited. In the idea of trying to better myself in these situations, instead of just being a motivator in the fitness sessions, I could of given them developments/progressions in the exercises to make them more challenging for the pupils. This could of led me to be able to teach them the correct technique to perform the exerices. This leads me to come up with an action plan. My action plan will be to get more involved rather than being an observing or a motivator. I will challenge the pupils more if they are finding the exercises easy. I could potentially query them about the exercises and teach the about the working muscles. In the regards to the theory aspect, I could give them specific questions to answer or give them a quiz before the lesson fully starts to test the knowledge before the questions. This will allow me to help those that are struggling in certain areas of that topic.
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