Monday, November 5th,2012

THEORETICAL CLASS.

In this class we were talking about Hellison (1995).

There are Five Levels:

-Level I: Respect. Studentes are able to control their behaviour in order to not interfere with others. There are three sub-components of the level I behaviour:The self control, Agreeing to peaceful conflict resolution and Inclusions is a right of all. 

-Level II: Participation & Effort. Students respect others in order to learn while participating in activities. Students try to do new activities. There are three components: Exploration of effort, Willingness to try new things and Beginning to define personal succes. 

-Level III: Self-Direction. Students demostrate respect to their peers. Students work independently toward self-identified goal in cooperation with peers. Students are responsible. 

-Level IV: Caring/ Helping. Students are able to lead learning experiences and asses their peers. They are the learship during the lesson. This can help working with less skilled peers. 

-Level V: Outside of the Gym. Students are able to make connections between learning experiences in physical education with those beyond our doors. 

Student characteristics and Teaching strategies. Examples:

In the Level I, the characteristic of students is control behavior and the teaching strategy is behaviour contract.

In the Level II, the characteristic of students is positive interaction with peers and the teaching strategy is team activities and cooperate games.

In the Level III, the characteristic of students is able to set goals and the teaching strategy is develop goal setting and self-assessment skills.

In the Level IV, the characteristic of student is demostrates interest in working with peers and the teaching strategy is peer assessment and instruction. 

       

In my opinion I think that these levels written by Helisson are very useful to work in class. Because all children should know how to respect others, help others, to be autonomous, to be responsible, to cooperate with others. 

Finally, we had to make pairs and choose 10 words for the Glossary related to the Lesson 1.