ECS field blog: Nov. 28

Today, My ECS partner and I taught a phys-ed lesson together. Well, he kinda had the wherewithal for it moreso. I'm sort of out of my element in the gym, unless it's like, dodgeball and stuff. But yeah, he has this idea for a sort of dynamic warmup. It had the students break into groups of three, and each had to do something different at a set of different "stations" of sorts. IE: 1 person had to do 10 cartwheels, another had to do 10 lunges, another had to hoola hoop 10 times... then on to the next one: 10 pushups for one, 10 line jumps for another, and the third had to carry someone around. It was honestly right on. I'm very much in favor of unique warm-ups, especially ones that get students doing things they wouldn't be doing otherwise... IE Lunges, core work, etc. However, the students don't always fully buy into these sorta things... so they will really half-ass stuff, sometimes to the point where they may as well not do it at all. I'm not sure how to, or if you can, get everyone super fully ultra engaged, but I know I'll try.

Floor hockey was the following activity, just with everyone in the gym. My ECS partner had a pretty swift idea, in chucking an extra puck into the game. It made everything way... funner. The kids all had more of a chance at the puck, and we didn't have to slice the gym in half and have to ridiculously small games of hockey on the go.

We had a sub for the rest of the class, and man, was she sharp. She had such like, a commanding personality, and could basically whirlwind students into doing anything. She was kind of like...foghorn leghorn. If a kid objected, there wasn't much reasoning going on, just "C'mon do it, it'll be easy, let's go hurry up up up!" and it seemed to work. I might try to employ that to a certain extent... We'll see. I already do it sometimes, but more motivational.

And that's it... my last field experience day. It's been a gas.