Monday, October 8th, 2012.

Today, we started with the Lesson 1: Physical Education, basic concepts and educative value in primary education. 

I think that in this lesson is very important to know the objectives like differentiate key concepts related to PE. To know what are the specific characteristics of a PE teacher. 

First of all, it is impotant to know that Physical Education is formed by Education and by the human movement (movement of the body).  In PE there are some domains like motor, affective, cognitive and social.

Furtheremore, a PE teacher has to have competency in motor skills, participates in physical activities. He or she has to be a healthy person because she or he are going to teach why is important to be a healthy person and how someone can achive it. 

From other part, the physical activity that children should do per day is 60 minutes. 

In order to teach PE you have to know thinks like the types of learning, types of activities that chidren have to do, the characteristics of the spaces, the organization of the group and the materials. 

The following link is the Lesson 1. 

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9A1lFjdd7btcGZHZHliUTQycFU

Later we did the Activity 1. This is the link: 

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9A1lFjdd7btNXplcV9iWlo5MWs

 We had to think about our personal experience in PE. We had to follow some phrases like I feel goog in PE when....

Moreover, we put in pairs and we talked with the other person abour how was our experience.

These reflexions led to another activity. We had to say positive things and negative things about our experience in PE. And these thing were written in the black board.

Positive.                                                                                         

-In primary school is fun, and improve the group cohesion.             

-There are many activities which are variet.

-There are personal goals.

Negative. 

-In secondary School.

-There are theory part and this implies to do an exam.

-There are not motivation.                                                                     

-There are social comparation between students.           

-There are sport test. 

Moreover, we did a discussion about PE. We came to the conclusion the most important aspect in teaching PE is to inculcate in children the importance to be a healthy person. For this reason the have to do sports.

 But the problem in Secondary School is that teachers used sport test only to evaluate the students. And this is a big problem because they are not motivated and at the end they are going to hate the subject. Which was my case. So, FUN is one of the key of Physical Education. Because children feel confortable if they enjoy the activity. Positive experience means to be an active person in the future.