Nick Kronemeyer

Professional Literature

Article 1: The Last Six Weeks of School

Though learning doesn't end just because school does, it's good to help children bring a sense of
closure to the year of classroom learning. Closure activities allow you to wrap up the unit on a positive
note and provides your students with many positives going forward. Benefits of this as stated in the
article, are things like, a sense of accomplishment and pride in what they accomplished, an opportunity
to reflect upon their own learning process and begin to know themselves as a learner. Some more
benefits being a sense of satisfaction from having worked hard to learn something; a recognition that
hard work can be a positive experience and An opportunity to think about next year's work -- to set
goals as a reflective learner. The article goes on to give suggestions on closure activities that allow
students to reflect on the unit.
This article is something that is very important to me. I think that closing activities are very
important in my P.E classroom because of what my philosophy on P.E is. I believe physical education is
teaching students how to be physically active for life, through any circumstance. Closure activities will
be a great step in the right direction for a couple reasons. The first being one closure activity we can do
is reflection. Reflection on what we learned this semester and what they enjoyed throughout the unit.
Doing this will be a great way to wrap up the unit and refresh the students on everything we learned.
The next closure activity will be a journal on different activities they plan on doing this upcoming
semester, or summer (time away from the PE class) that will help them stay physically fit. Doing this
will help them brainstorm in their mind how they plan on staying for, and will accomplish my goal of
helping students stay physically active for life.

Clayton, Marlynn. "The Last Six Weeks of School." Education World:. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.

Article 2: Analysis of the characteristics of competitive badminton

This article tries to describe the characteristics of badminton in order to determine the energy
requirements, temporal structure, and movements in the game that indicate performance level. To use
the findings to plan training with greater precision. The results of these tests suggest that badminton is
characterized by repetitive efforts of quick nature and great intensity which are continuously performed
throughout the match. An awareness of these characteristics, together with data on the correlations
between certain actions such as unforced errors and winning shots and the final result of the match, will
aid in more appropriate planning and monitoring of specific training.

The authors intent of this article is simple. They break badminton down so they can train in the
most efficient way to be competitive. In the PE classroom, students are not typically looking to become
the best badminton player in the state. However, the goal of PE is to become competitive enough to be
able to play in most circumstances so I think this article could easily apply to my students. I would
focus on the part of the article that talks about the correlations between unforced errors and winning
shots to the result of the match. These are things we can practice and be aware of well we play in the
classroom. I would lastly give them the knowledge of how to get better on their own, which this article
illustrates.
"Analysis of the Characteristics of Competitive Badminton." -- Cabello Manrique and GonzlezBadillo 37 (1): 62. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.