Friday, January 25th, 2013

Today, I am going to finish the Portfolio related to Physical Education. So I am going to do a reflection. 

I have been thinking about what I did during this subject.  And I realized that it is the most useful subject that I have learned at the moment. 

I have done a lot of activities that I am going to use with my future students. My teacher motivated us everyday with these activities. I like this class because I wanted to attendance to class. 

I would not change nothing about the organization and the contents because I think that are perfect for us.

I have learned a lot from my teacher because she has participated in the activities that we created. I have learned that it is important to give the opportunity to students to create their own games. They have to be motivated all the time. Also, I have learned that it is better to use different materials and different activities. Besides, I have learned how to change the role of that games in which there are children who can be eliminated. Instead of this role I can change it and introduce another rule in which they are not eliminated. 

Nevertheless, my favorite activity is the Interdisciplinary activity where I can use some subjects areas to teach the same concept or different concepts depending on the subjects.

I have not nothing more to say only THANK YOU teacher!!

Blanca Monzón Morcillo

Wednesday, January 23th, 2013

PRACTICAL CLASS

Today we did two activities related to Body expression.

The first activity was about dance. Where first we did an exercise to warm up dancing the song "Follow the leader". I think that in this activity they need more coordination among the teachers because I did not know who I had to follow to do different exercise. Later they put a song and we had to move feeling the music in order to be conscious about the differences between a low song and a fast song. Besides, we had to create by small groups 8 steps taking into account the rhythm of the music. Finally in order to relax they put a song and we had to imagine that we were in the beach and in the ocean.

You can see the activity in this link:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9A1lFjdd7btZGkwZmJJQzdMSHc/edit

I think that this activity needs to improve different things such as: The awareness of the space, the time because I did not know how many times we had to repeat the steps of the choreography. Moreover, it needs an organization about the person who is explaining the activity because children and we can not follow five people saying different instructions. 

Later we did another activity related to theater. This was the activity of my group.
First of all, we develop different activities to warm up. Such as: walk to the space, awareness of the body with exercise like make a pirouette, change the own velocity, relation with others. 
Besides, we did an activation massage to improve the energy of the body. And finally we did improvisations in small groups. Nevertheless, we did not have enough time to finish the activity because we had an activity to calm the energy and return to the initial state.

From my opinion, I think that the activity was funny and we knew how to organize well the activity in each phase. I noticed that my classmates enjoyed with the activity. Besides, it is a good activity to us with my future students becuase it is reflect all the objectives and contents related to body expression which was the aim of the activity. 

You can see the activity in this link:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9A1lFjdd7btR3BZb2djb01DdGM/edit

Wednesday, January 17th, 2013

PRACTICAL CLASS. 

First of all, we started with the Activities related to Sport & Games.

In order to warm up we have done a game consisted on a person had to catch other person and he or she had to say aloud the name of the person who was going to cacht. The rest of the people had to croos between the catcher and the person who was going to catch for saving it. When someone crossed between them the catcher had to change the person who had to chatch who was the person who crosses between them. 

From my point of view, I think that this game is good but it has some disadvantages because there are people who do not do any physical activity. So it would be better to change that situation.

Secondly, we started with the activity. We were doing exercise about badminton. First the teacher explain us some things related to the rules of badminton like the way to take the racket, the name of the ball of badminton. Then we were doing different exercise in order to understand the activity such as:
-Practice alone with the racket.
-Practice the touch  with different rhythms.
-Practice with a peer. 
-Practice with three people. 
-Practice with a peer on the red.

In this link you can see the activity:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9A1lFjdd7btdnJiZ1JWMjhvWkU/edit

From my point of view, I think that this activity is good to use with children because they would learn a lot of things. But I have seen some things which they would change. I think that they would search more information about the way to take the racket because they say wrong the way to put the fingers. It is important because you have to have a free movement in order to conduct better the direction of the ball. Besides, we would need more space between couples. The teachers have never corrected us. And when I was playing with my couple there were in the middle of us. So we could not play well.

After the activity related to badminton we did an activity about American football. We did different exercise in order to understad it such as:

-How to take the ball with the fingers.

-How to passs the ball

-How to pass the ball to another person. 

-Who is the cuaterback. He has to be stop while another person has to run in order to9 score a mark.

Later we play a match dividing the class in two teams. We had to pass the ball to one side of the gym to the other side doing as maximum 8 passes. But if the ball took the floor the team ha dto change.

In this link you can see the Activity of American Football:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9A1lFjdd7btb09Uejh3a3hmQVU/edit

From my opinion, this game is very useful for children because they can learn through a game a sport. The did well the game correctly because they corrected our failure for example in the way to take ball or to trow it. It is perfect I would not change nothing. Moreover, the game to warm up was amazing. We wore a belt on our wais. The bel had a velcro with a strips and he had to earn as much as possible those strips. So, I think that they were prepare very well for doing the activity. 

Morever, I think that badminton is a good example to show a dual game and American football is a good example to show a team game. Also they are a good examples to show enjoyment, maximum participation and learning. Which are the things that I have learned related to the presentation about Sport & Game because there were the classification of sports and games and their characteristics.

Monday, January 14th, 2013

THEORETICAL CLASS

Today, we started with the Lesson 5 Games & Sports.

In this link you can see the presentation: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9A1lFjdd7btS0dwZWFfQ2FhZlk/edit

First of all, we were talking about the differences between games and sports which are the rules and they have an institution behind. 

The most important thing when you play is a purpose which is to enjoy the game. A game is also a free activity because children can be creative. Nevertheless, Sport is something related with adult life, I mean, a sport has more detailed rules than a game. But also a play has restrictions such as time and place. 

It is important to clarify that in English the word game can be a sport. So to play is the word to refer to a game in Spanish.

Later, we were talking about the Educative Values of sport if it has which are different for an individual sport and a team sport. So, for example, a value is team work, cooperation, effort, get the best of one self, willpower, how to win, how to lose, self-achievement, among others. 

Nevertheless, sport is not good always because it promotes competitions, winners and losers...

Secondly, we saw a video about the training of children in Shangai. You can see the video in this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuxAMVUIoj4

I think that this methodology is cruel and terrible. Trainers make a lot of pressure to children and sometimes children cry because they feel ache in their bodies. I know that to be a Olimpic person you have to train a lot but with different methods. For example a method which motived you to train and to achive the result. Instead of methods which you suffer.

In the video parents are who choose that their children have to be Elite persons but sometimes what parents choose and not what children like. So parents have to choose taking into account the opinion of their children. My opinion is that sports are wonderful for children but with the correct ways to teach it.

Finally, we started to see the presentation about Games & Sports. 

There are a traditional classification of Games & Sports which are Individual, Dual (Tennis, Badminton, table tennis...) and Team games (Football, Rugby...). 

Moreover, there are a classification taking into account the appoach which are Invasion (Basketball, Handball, Football, Hockey...) they are more common in Spain, Net/ Wall (Badminton, Tennis, Voleyball...) they are more common in Spain, Striking and Fielding games (Baseball, Criket, Softball...)they are more common in EEUU, Target Games (Golf, Criquet, Bowling...) they are more common in EEUU.

Moreover, there are a classification taking into account the rules which are Low organization games and High organitation games (Sport).

There are different kind of use the teaching of a sport. You can use a game to teach another knowledge. So games can be a content of teaching or you can use it to reach another content. 

When you are teaching a sport it is better to play first and later the teacher have to introduce little by little some rules. In order to adapt what they know to new things. 

In order to select games and sports you have to take into account some things:

-Enjoyment & Success.

-Maximum participation.

-Similarity of strategies. Because there are sports with the same rules but you have to adapt them to the new sport. 

-Physical and emotional safety. 

-Learning.

Finally, a teacher shoul let children to modified the game or the sport, to be creative. Also the teacher has to vary the games, to demostrate the gameand to explain it. 

I think that this Lesson is very useful to learn because I think that in Primary Education the base is to play games and sports. But before this presentation I have never considered the classification of games, the different approaches to teach them and the criteria to select them. Nevertheless, now I know what steps I have to follow in order to choose the best games and sport taking into account the age, the purpose, the learning, and the educative values. 

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

PRACTICAL CLASS
Today we continued with the Interdisciplinary Activities.

-Miriam, Chusa & Elisa: 

I like very much this activity because it is a good conexion between PE and Geography about Spain. It is a perfect game for children in order to learn the autonomous communities and the provinces.

In this game each of us are a community or a province. We have to do different physical exercise and also we have to memorize who community or province are the rest of the class. Later the teacher ask a question such as: What is the capital of Spain?. And people have to catch the person who is Madrid. So this game promote memorization. 

I would not change nothing about this game. I think that is perfect in order to learn two subject at the same time. 

-Anna & Azahara:

I think that this Activity is a good connexion between Science and PE because it is based on evolution and we have to do exercise in the activity. First you are an ameba and you have to do the movement that the amoeba does, later you are a crap with his movement, later a frog with his movement and later a human with his movement. This game promotes  imagination because children have to do the movement of each step of evolution and later the teacher say them the correct movement in order to improve the physical activity. Moreover, this game promotes cooperation in order to evolve. 

I think that is an excellent game because at the end children can see that always there are all the steps of the evolution. 

-Almudena Bellot & Pablo:

In mi opinion this game is difficult to understand, I mean, when we played I did not know how I had to do. I have not seen the physical activity because we had to imitate an animal and later we had to write the name in a paper and runned to correct it. The group who finished first was the winner. So it promotes competitions between groups. I think that children can not learn anything from this game, which I think that is one of the purpose of this activity. 

This game is a way to measure the knowledge. I think that this activity needs to improve in the objectives of the activity and in the final goal.

-Gemma & Almudena López: 

In this game the teacher assigned a number to each child and they have to separate in two groups taking into account if you are a even or odd number. Later by gestures the memembers of the group have to put from low to high age. I think that this game is perfect for the firsts days of the school because ir improves cooperation between children. And they can meet each other. Nevertheless, this game is not appropriate for a PE class because it does not promote physical exercise. My suggestion for this game would be to add some physical exercise. 

-Anna & Belén:

In this game we have to make couples and the teachers assigned us an animal and we have to imitate it. The other person of the couple has to guess what animal you are. The game consists on the number of animals that you guess.

I do not really see the conexion between physical education and another subject. Also I do not see the physical activity in this game. So my suggestion would be to add physical exercise and something to be teach. For example to imitate mammal, reptiles, ocean animal etc. And children are going to learn the different kind of animals. 

Monday, December 17th, 2012

THEORETICAL CLASS.

We started with the Lesson 4: "Fundamental motor skills".

The most important thing in this lesson is to identify the differences between skill and ability.

Also the differences between specialized motor skill and fundamental motor skill. And the patterns of movements. 

First of all, we have to know the definition of skill which is the learned ability. It means accuracy and precision. The skill has some components such as fluent, aesthetic, follows a technical model, goal directed and efficient.

Moreover, we have to know the definition of ability which is innate, stable and enduring. It is the support of skills but with limits on the degree of skill. 

Also, we have to know the definition of fundamental motor skill which is a series of basic movements that involve some of movement patterns. It is common to everyone. For example, the pattern of throwing. 

Also, we have to know the definition of specialized motor skill which is a fundamental movement skill or combination of fundamental movement skills. It is related to a sport. For example, Baseball, tennis.

There are three types of movement skills:

• Stability. (Balancing, body rolling...)
• Locomotor. (Walking, running...)
• Manipulative. It can be Gross motor manipulation and Fine motor manipulation.  (Throwing, catching...)

In this link you can see the Lesson 4.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9A1lFjdd7btWGpuWWtXNkpXcTg

OPINION.

I think that this Lesson is very important for future teachers because we have to know concepts such as skill and ability and they differences. Moreover, teachers have to conduct well activities in order to student´s acquire and understand the differences and the movement patterns. So, for this reason students have to practice very much the patterns. 

Finally, the other day we had to write another word related to the Glossary. My word was Interdiscipliary teaching.

• Translation: Enseñanza Interdisciplinaria.

• Definition: It is a method used to teach two or more concepts from different areas to help students see the interrelatedness of knowledge.

• Practical application: Teaching social sciences related to things such as Egypt and through physical education teach students with movements. So, students will memorize the steps and they will relate what has been learned about Egypt.      

Wednesday, December 12th, 2012

PRACTICAL CLASS.

First of all, we started doing different exercise with the "Indiaca" in order to warm up.

• We had to throw the indiaca as far as possible and running to collect it. (Some repetitions).

• We had to throw the Indiaca but taking in to account the patter of motor movement when you throw someting. This patter consist on do a step with the opposite leg to the arm which you are going to throw the ball. And you have to rotate the truck in order to do more energy. 

• We had to throw the Indiaca as high as possible mainteining the posture.

• We had to throw the Indiaca and tried to catch it before the Indiaca touch the floor. 

• We did groups of two and we had to pass the indiaca among us and we had to throw the indiaca with the opposite arm and the opposite leg because the pattern changed.

• Finally, we hd to try to score on the basket but mainteining the posture. 

Later, we started with the Interdisciplinary Activity. 

So, Raquel and me started with our Activity. My Activity was thinking for three subjects: Music, Social science and PE.

First of all, We explained that the music is divided into 8 times and we marked them with the music.
Then, Raquel explained something related to Egypt, which is the most important content. And I did a step relevant with the explanation. So, my class mates had to repeat with me the steps in order to memorize them.
For example, Egipstians did pyramids. So, the step was to walking hunched doing two steps and streched the body doing two steps. In order to do like a pyramid in a "V".

Finally, we put together the steps and we did the choreography which was fantastic!!

In this link you can see the development of the activity:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9A1lFjdd7btQWR3anZFNmQ3QjQ

Here you can see the music which we used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXUpYYYs5jM

This activity was funny but very difficult in order to conduct it. Because there were people who did not do well the step or people who did not understand. But I think that it is a very good experience in order to know how much it is difficult to do a class. 

Moreover, I have learned very much from my errors. Because it is better to give a name to each step to memorize well. Also, It is better to teach a step and seeing the step with the music. 

OPINION.

Related to the exercises with the Indiaca. I think that are great because there are useful to practice the patter of throwing something. It is a funny game because you are using a different material. For teachers this activity is fantastic in order to create a class in order to improve the patter. And I realize that students have to practice many times. 

Related to the Interdisciplinary Activity. I really like very much to teach a choreography. Now, I know better how to do it. And the teacher has to know very well the steps and the way of teaching them to the students because it is very difficult.

After doing the interdisciplinary activity I think that this kind of activity is very good for teachers and for students. Students can learn different concepts in the same exercise. And the teacher can teach different knowledge in the same activity.