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Physical Education Reflection Task

Reflection Piece:
During my 6 week placement, I was
involved in the Sport Education program
with the year 8 girls basketball. I was
team teaching this group of 35 girls with
a fellow pre-service teacher, who was
very competitive in nature and spent
majority of the class time with the more
experienced students. This naturally drew
me to the students who were less
experienced and were more there for an
alternate view on sport encouraging
involvement and fun.
Many of these girls will come on a weekly
basis and offer many different reasons as to why they didnt want to participate in the class
due to injury or sickness which I always offer them the opportunity to participate
whenever they are ready to join in. On all occasions that I offered this, students who begin
the class sitting out would be involved by the end of the session. I found this to be beneficial
as I wasnt forcing students to participate which gave them the independence to make their
own decision and join in when they were going to bring a positive attitude and willingness
to participate in the activity.
Many of these girls were not very competitive in nature but always became involved with
the experienced girls during a full game activity. The more experienced girls were showing
more enjoyment by allowing the less experienced girls to become active participants within
the game providing them with many opportunities to shoot for goals and call the game
plays. This became one of my favourite classes to attend each week as the positive energy
was infectious and it was a privilege to be involved with this group of girls.