Teaching #1 Lesson Plan
I had a chance to do my first teaching with a home school co-op. This was particularly exciting for me, because growing up I was homeschooled and involved in different co-ops, and I always felt that the lack of physical education offered through the co-op was unfair and pretty ridiculous. I was giving the change to take the students for a thirty minute time period, and do this twice that week. (Tuesday and Thursday) I decided to teach speedball to the students. Considering the amount of skills and rules needed to be taught in order to play the game, I chose to teach the skills on Tuesday with them and then let them play speedball on Thursday. The following is the lesson plan that I used with the students.
Lesson Plan: Speedball
Grade: 7th
Number of Students: 7
1.) Warm-up: Alternating 20 jumping jacks with a slow jog across the basket ball court; repeated for 4 lengths of the court.
2.) Teaching kick-ups. First, we did a two foot kick up and each student did it about five to seven times. Then, I showed them how to do a one foot kick up and each student did it about seven to ten times (More, because one foot kick ups are more difficult).
a.) I taught the kick ups first because I wanted the students to grasp the idea of not picking up the ball with their hands. Once they were comfortable doing kick ups I no longer allowed them to pick up the ball with their hands. For any drill that required having the ball in hand they had to kick it up to themselves.
3.) Passing: In pairs practicing the different passes. Starting with on the ground soccer passes, kicking the ball up to their hands, to move onto chest passes. They did bounce passes and chest passes. Then, the baseball throw to finish it off. They did ten-fifteen of each pass.
4.) Dribbling: I had them dribble across the court. Half way using their feet as in soccer, and then picking the ball up to dribble the second half with their hands. Down and back across the court twice.
5.) Punting: I thought the students would have fun learning to punt. So I showed them step by step how to punt, and explained how punting is used in speedball, and then each students did several punts. I had them stand in a line facing the same direction and punt all at the same time and run after their balls. They enjoyed the organized chaos of it.
That is the lesson plan for teaching speedball. It worked well with the age group I had. Most students in middle school and older probably already know skills for the sports used in speedball, and I just wanted to refresh their skills and teach them the new game. On Thursday we went over a few rules, then played speedball and it went really well. Let me know what you think of the plan.
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Comments
I like the idea of teaching PE to homeschoolers! I homeschooled my daughter before moving to Wyo and I would have loved to have a PE teacher teach games to my group! The lesson plan is very complete. If you don't have the opportunity to teach them again, the more experienced students can help with skills. An interesting opportunity would be to design a curriculum packet for homeschoolers (like standard educational curriculum paks for homeschoolers)and sell them to homeschooling families. It could contain lessons, assessments, etc. You could also, of course, offer PE courses.
I have been out of the loop, so this may already exist. As a former homeschooling parent, I would have wanted to ensure my daughter was keeping active and learning skills. I hope you can do this again.
I taught speedball (skills) for my first teaching assignment. As you stated there is alot to the game. I had a range of kids from as young as 7 to as old as 10. It was a little difficult trying to get what I wanted to in and actually have the kids learn and apply it. I would love to do this as a unit in maybe a middle school or high school. The avenue you took was good in the fact they had a fully day to learn and then another to apply. We have had so much snow here this winter that It is hard to get kids on consecutive days for me, believe me Ive tried. 14 snow days since January 4th, and another storm coming into tonight!
Great job Grace! That's really neat you found a homeschooled co-op to teach! I like Penny's idea of designing PE curriculum for homeschoolers!
The one thing I would recommend is to make your lesson plan more teachable for another teacher - write it such a way that a sub could read it and know exactly what to do. For example, tell me HOW you taught each skill, what were your cues/steps as you taught.
Otherwise it looks great! I'm sure next time when you play they'll have a blast!
Thank you for all of the wonderful comments! I have interest in teaching homeschoolers in PE. As far as I know, a take home curriculum doesn't exist. Something might be out there, but I was homeschooled till 17 and I never saw any PE at home or co-op. I do know, that many YMCA's provide PE, swimming, gymnastics, and sometimes weight training or wall climbing for homeschool students. That is what my parents did for myself and my siblings, we went to the YMCA twice a week for years and did many PE activites. I would recommend their programs for homeschool students.