1. Reflecting on your experience so far at St Mary’s, what do you think have been some difficulties or challenges you have faced? Consider all areas – environment, children, etc.
Today’s lab we observe students overhand throw and catch. One difficulty we had faced in creating the games was making sure the students were using a full overhand throw. Many students through out the game would tens to get caught up in the game can just try and throw the objects underhand, or rushed their overhand throw
, having minimal follow-through and windup. Another challenge came up during the first group’s game, and I thought they made a nice adjustment. Their game was making the pizza, having chiefs throw the ingredients to the cooks, but students weren’t able to cross the middle ground of the gymnasium, which was the oven. At first the oven was too large, and the students had great difficulty reaching their partners. This teaching group quickly adapted by moving in the cones, making the students more successful, with out having to stop the game. This adaptation accommodated the environment in which they were working with and the children’s skill level.
2. What ideas/suggestions do you have to resolve the difficulties or challenges that you wrote about in #1?
To help resolve difficulties and challenges I think it is important to plan ahead and practice! It is important to brainstorm about the activity that you are going to present and think about all possibly problems that may arise. Also proper planning can also help you have multiple varieties of the same game that will keep the game fun and fresh for the students, which will minimize boredom, and lack of interest. It is also important to always be one your toes, while teaching. Nothing ever goes exactly as planned, so it is essential to be watching the activity and thinking how you can tweak it to fix problems the students maybe having and keep interest level up for students.
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