I had my first teaching assignment in Striking & Field and as the title of this blog describes: it was about kickball. My group and I met during common hour a few times to work out the lesson and then we taught.
From the start, it wasn't the best teaching episode of the year. The warm up got a little confusing and our classmates we were teaching were all over the floor. We fixed it up and got through the rest of the warm up and moved onto the lesson.
The lesson started out good. I was in charge of descsribing the lead up activity and thought it was a fairly simple concept of turning a double play, but I was wrong. A lot of the groups were kind of standing around and it took a quick mini-explaination to get everyone started on task. I was informed later I should have used a demonstration of the activity to help visualize the activity.
The next part was a guide practice. I quickly explained the concepts of "tagging up" and "turning two" and set the class out on practicing those skills. I forgot to explain "sacrifices" like I had planned, and should have explained more specific rules (what happens if the ball gets kicked out of play, foul balls, etc..).
The rest of the teaching was my group members so I'll stop my reflection there. I learned valuable lessons from my mistakes in this twenty minutes. I learned the value of demonstrations. I relied too much on explaining and assuming everyone knew what they were doing. Demonstrations are a sure fire way to show the students what they were doing, and a good demonstration will only take a minute of time.
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