Lab B2- The Double Under; Saltare Needs Some Back-up Dancers!

This lab was probably my worst lab so far. I was nervous to listen to my voice recording because I was having an off day. I knew I would find a lot of things that I forgot. Some of the things that would have been better for my lab would been if I wasn't sick. I sounded out of breath and I don't want to sound like that while teaching. Another improvement I would have made would have been to do an instant activity because I was the first lesson. My feedback wasn't very strong and was very generic this lesson and I'm not sure why. My instruction was also way too long. When looking at my timecoding, my talking needs to decrease a lot. Looking at my transcript, I did a lot of repeating and made very similar comments to everyone. I think I had a good hook because America's Best Dance Crew was something the students could relate to.

During my lab B1, I taught a jump rope skill called the straddle cross. It was a challenge to teach a jump rope skill because jump roping is not a regular or basic sport.

My time coding results varied from my results last lab. My management time increased a lot because of the way I organized the students. To improve on that, I'

ll do something next time such as make it a game or count down to get the students set in position faster. I had no waiting time in my lesson, which is a good quality that I seem to portray in every lesson. One thing I wanted to improve on from my last lab was the amount of feedback I gave during the students' activity time. This feedback can be seen on my feedback analysis form. Looking back at my video, I gave feedback to five students, four out

0f the five of which were congruent and relating to the tasks and cues that I taught them. Looking at my transcript I did a lot more talking than it felt li

ke. When I'm in front of the group I tend to blabber on and I don't realize what I'm actually saying. I did improve with my simpler cues, but I still think I spent too much time talking as well as a little too repetitive. I also noticed that I have a tendency of saying "There ya go" when helping a student with a skill. I'm not sure if that's a habit I should try and break, but it did come up a lot.

Time Coding; Transcript; Feedback Analysis

The first day of 255, we were asked to do a lesson on the spot. Being caught off guard, I got nervous about the activity I should do and what to say, which is very evident in my video. I recently did a time coding sheet to look at what was going on in my lesson every ten seconds. Looking at this time coding sheet, I was efficient with my management, which was only 6.7%, and my waiting time, which was 0. Both of my instruction and activity time were even percentages, which I need to improve on. Looking back on my video I talked a lot and if I were learning the lesson, I would have been bored. I need to be more enthusiastic and make the lesson more interesting to attract the children to want to learn. After practicing these methods in class, I'm working my way to make my re-do lesson a success.

On Friday, our class did a re-do lesson of a skill, which can be seen here. For this lesson, I went back and typed up everything that I said during my lesson, which you can see on my transcript. This REALLY woke me up to how much I talk and how little I need to talk. Looking back the only cues I needed were feet together, ball over head, follow through. I made the lesson more confusing and spent too much time on my hook. My lessons are very frustrating for me to watch because I know my potential, but I make myself nervous. When a classmate is teaching, I can pinpoint everything that I would have done differently to improve, but when I'm the one teaching it's hard for me to catch. I know that teaching takes time so I need to practice more and feel more comfortable with how I'm teaching.

Feedback is very important when teaching so that the students understand what they're doing well, which motivates them and also what they're doing wrong so it can be corrected. On my Feedback Analysis Form, it shows the comments I made to students during my lesson. I made comments to Steph and Gino that were both skill related. I also had Steph and Alex demonstrate, which I think I did because I know them the best out of the whole group. In the my video, I also made a comment to another student, but what I said is unclear. In my next lesson I'm going to make sure I give back a lot more feedback to the students.

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It was really hard for me to record myself doing this video because I'm not talking to an actual person. Obviously my voice isn't at the level it should be at, but I think my body language was very strong. If I could re-do the video, I would use a partner to throw the ball at me to trap the ball. I think overall my video came out okay, but I need to get more comfortable with what I'm saying and not work myself up.

The Camera's On: My First Teaching Experience in 255

Being able to teach on the spot is something that definitely improves over time. I was caught off guard having to teach on Monday, which made me nervous and affected my lesson. One of my stronger points during my lesson was my demonstration skills and my enthusiasm. I am able to project my voice pretty well also. I think the content of my lesson was sufficient and I covered all of the main points of dribbling a basketball, while making it simple and easy to understand. I think I needed a better drill for everyone to do instead of having everyone separated. Hopefully I can take what I learned about teaching on the spot and improve for the future.