Shqiponje Halili

Lesson Cycle: 6th Grade

Lesson Title/Topic: Career Day- Introduction to being a Coach and other careers working with
kids/work around sporting events and athletes.
Target Concept: The student understands and describes the role and responsibilities, as well as
the requirements to become a coach.
Standards/Rationale: 127.3(C)3 Career Investigation
Lesson Objectives: The student will
understand the career of coaching, the
income, and various levels of education
required with 80% accuracy.

Assessment:
Invent a game.

Materials:
Per team:
1 ball
1 hula-hoop
1 jump-rope
1 net
1 racket
Lesson Cycle: (Direct instruction)
The teacher will:
Focus/Mental Set:
- Introduce myself as a coach. The teacher
will be wearing a coach shirt and sports hat.
I am Coach Halili and today is your first day
of practice.

The student will:

-Watch the video.

- Answer questions.

-Play video of Playworks Junior Coach

Conference (4min30 sec)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=tykTRo9m5Ig
- Discuss the video, what they are doing, and
the different activities.
- Ask students about the qualities of a coach.
Teacher Input:
-Discuss career information such as education,

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income, and other requirements of different

careers within the category of the group, with
the main focus on the coaching career.
- Lay out different posters and pictures with
information on the different careers that work
with kids and around sporting events.
- Distribute handout to students about the
careers with answers left blank that they can
complete as we go through the presentation.
Coach:
Sports coaches can work in schools, colleges,
fitness centers, etc.
Coaches in the middle school and high school
level are certified teachers.
The requirements to become a coach are to
graduate from a four-year college or
university, have a valid Texas teaching
certificate, CPR training, first aid, and job
training.
The income level is around $40,000 (teacher
salary plus stipends).
If a student wants to become a college coach,
a four year degree in a sports or health related
field is required and they should have
experience playing the sport at the college
level.
Parks and Recreation:
A Director of Parks and Recreation is
generally hired by the city. This position has a
positive impact on physical activity in children
and is in charge of the budget and operations
of the parks and recreation department
including the citys swimming pool and sports
fields.
If students want to become a director, they
should have a bachelors degree in park
management or public administration. Also, at
least four years of experience in supervising
staff in park management is required.

Observe the presentation and

complete the handout.

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Income: The average income is $55,000 per

year and goes up, depending on experience.
Summer jobs in Parks and Recreation:
-Students that are looking for a summer job
can work as a Concession Attendant and must
be 16 years old. The pay is minimum wage,
$7.25/hr.
-Students can also work as a Lifeguard during
the summer and the requirements are to be 16
years old, current lifeguard certification, CPR
and first aid. The pay is about $8.50 per hour.
Sports Journalist:
Another career that includes working around
sporting events is a sports journalist which
requires you go to a 4 year college and get a
journalism degree or major in English with a
concentration in Journalism.
Income: $35,000 per year.
Guided Practice:
- Provide a brief description of what a coach
does, the education requirements to become a
coach, as well as the income level.
- Briefly discuss the importance of rules in a
game or sport.
- Divide students up in two groups and
provide material (hula-hoop, ball, net, jump
rope).
- Provide students with 10 minutes to
brainstorm and work with their group
members in inventing a new game using all
the materials provided.
- Advise students to come up with rules to
play the game as well as to pick a name for the
game.
- Choose one student from each group to
present the new game and the whole team
will demonstrate.

-Get in groups and pick up sports

equipment.
-Create/design a new game with group
members with all the material provided.
- Come up with a name for the game.
- One member from the group will stand
up to discuss the rules and name and the
team will demonstrate.

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Independent Practice:
-Pass out a blank magazine cover and have
students pretend they appear on the cover of a
Sports Magazine for an award/honor.

-Open their journals to draw a picture of

themselves on the cover of a magazine
and write a sentence describing what
they did.

- Instruct students to write a sentence in their

journal describing his or her accomplishment
on the magazine and draw a picture to go with
it.
Closure:
Provide students with an exit ticket.

Answer the following questions:

-Would you like to become a coach?
Why or why not?
-If you could play any sport, which
would you choose?
- What characteristics and qualities do
you think are necessary for a coach to
have?

Options:
Enrichment:
Assign students that have a deeper interest
in the topic to research an additional career
that involves working with kids/around
sporting events and have them present it to
the class.

Modifications/Correctives:
According to individual IEPs.
References:

Reteach:
The teacher will create a handout to include
those vocabulary words and definitions that
students did not understand from the
original handout during the presentation.
Subsequently, the teacher will review the
words through a 15 minute discussion with
students.