Hello welcome to my third week of reflection…
Learning objectives:
- Becoming more confident when delivering sessions.
- Delivering small parts of the session/ teaching to small groups or individuals.
- Develop my own knowledge of starting your own company and what it involves.
- To improve my problem-solving skills during sessions that don’t go to plan
Knowing I would be taking part in a PE meeting today I was very excited to see the theory side of the job compared to the physical. However I also felt anxious, at the same time, because I didn’t know what to expect and I had never been it that type of sporting environment. Learning about the 30-active minute was very beneficial for me because I was able to gain a further understanding of Mrs Smiths job role. This has allowed me to work towards L.O. 3 because I have learnt that Mrs Smith helps schools with both practical and theory.
Mrs Smith’s job role involves:
- Delivering a variety of national curriculum PE sessions.
- Helps the schools fulfil Ofsted demands.
- Gives advice to their current PE staff on how they can improve their own sessions.
- Helps with PE documentation
- Organises and delivers Sporting competitions
This is evidence that work experience is benefiting me when looking at L.O. 3 as I now have a good knowledge and understanding of the job role.
During the year 3’s rugby session I felt confident taking half the class, after Mrs Smith had explained the task. I feel that during this work experience I have definitely achieved L.O. 2 however I believe I need to deliver parts of the session to the whole class to feel the full benefit (and to achieve L.O. 1).
Another cycle that I can use to help reflect on my current experiences is Kolb’s cycle. When coaching one half of the class I came across a problem, and I can use Kolb’s cycle to help me improve so that if it occurs again, I know what to do. Concrete experiences relate to what happened and how I felt. So, during the session we had to choose 2 students to be the defenders. I chose two students that I believed could perform the task well (more developed in ability). However, this was a bad decision because the other students were unable to get around them and perform the task set. While this was occurring, I felt on edge for the lower ability students because I knew they would struggle with the task. Using Kolb’s cycle, I then stepped back and reviewed the situation and identified what I could have done differently. I have now used ‘active experimentation’ and put together a reflective plan to improve in the future. This is that I would put a mixture of abilities as defenders. This will allow the other students a better chance at completing the task and if they were still struggling, I would remove one of the defenders so that there was only one defender in total. Experiential learning is the type of learning I am doing during my work experience and using this cycle has allowed me to learn from my mistakes. Concluding that I am becoming a better coach day by day by learning on the job.
SD2200 Work Placement 