Understanding the Learner Teachers who are familiar with student characteristics have a considerable advantage in planning their

r teaching Educational programs must consider

Common characteristics serve as a general guide for curriculum decisions. Teachers of trying to help students cope with the physical and emotional changes that challenge them. Common Characteristics of Children and Youth http://www.son.wisc.edu/net/wistrec/net/ developstagetext.html

Some students learn with almost no help; others need a great deal of help. Physiological traits affect student preferences for noisy or quiet, bright or subdued, mobile or immobile environments. Students learn in different ways.

 Field-dependent individuals

Field-independent individuals-Cognitive Styles

Brain Hemisphericity Studies Some students use the left hemisphere and employ a reflective, analytic style; others are right-brained and learn better through visual, holistic hands-on methods. Most teachers teach in a left-brain, structured, verbal mode.

Gardner believes individuals are born with different intelligence profiles and use their unique profiles to solve problems. The intelligences can serve as a means to acquire new information. The content itself may fit within the realm of an intelligence. Gardners Intelligences

The Responsibilities of the Physical Educator

Role of a Physical Educator

Teaching Advising & counseling Administration of programs Instruction

Supervision Service to school & community Membership in professional organizations

Characteristics of Effective Teachers Paces instruction for high engaged time Teaches to the whole class Questions students Reacts positively to students

Characteristics of Effective Teachers

Prepares learning experiences for context Loves children Expects students to succeed

The Beginning Teacher

Has Concerns Expectations from principal and fellow teachers Classroom management and discipline Planning and preparing for the day Must Minimize Stress Signs Fatigue Nervousness Frustration Sleeplessness Needs to Avoid Burnout

Effective Teaching in the Physical Education Setting Effective Teaching in the Physical Education Setting

Quality lessons engage all students by allowing children the opportunity to participate and remaining active eg: Rules and routines and safety environment Creating stimulating learning task

Being a good communicator

Good relationships are based on the interactions and communications of individual

Clearly communicate to students what is expected to help them stay on task Two aspect of presenting task to students :

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Being a knowledge practitioner

A teacher with a thorough to the student understanding of the content who know how to teach its content to children Providing meaningful explanations and connecting new information to things already familiar Increase knowledge by : Reading content related journal / book Internet Watching instructional videos

Types of feedback that been us by teacher : Positive Negative

General Specific Congruent Specific information given about a consistent aspect or result performance Congruent Information related to the learning cue or critical feature of the task focus

Develop content well and to structure it appropriately Effective teacher s use various instructional strategies that allow student to work on their individual skill level Creating stimulating learning task Print to

Being concerned with student

Teachers with overall student achievement will provide student wit quality instruction and learning experiences in every learning. If you provide motivating learning experiences for student, they will and experience success