Dalton Smith

SES170-070
Entry 4
The school that I’m currently observing from January to March is Kinard Middle School located
in Fort Collins. The teacher I’m observing is Bre Jordan who attended UNC for her graduate
program. She has been teaching for three years now with one of them being at Kinard Middle
School. She teaches physical education classes to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in semester long or
yearlong courses. The class that I observed started by warming up with 2 rounds of: 2 laps
around the grey lines of the gym, 4 “perfect” push-ups (your hardest variation), 8 side lunges
(per side), 16 Russian twists, 32 line jumps, 16 slow supermans, 8 squat jumps, 4 burpee with 2
push-ups, and 2 wall sprints. After they warmed up, they went over the “What”, the “Why”, and
the “How” they will be doing as a class. The “What” they will be doing is learn/recap and play
the game Speedball. The “Why” they will be doing is demonstrating skills related to soccer,
handball, and basketball to play with and against people with varying skill levels. The “How”
they will be doing is play against 2 other teams while encouraging teammates and keeping track
of the score. Lastly before playing they went over the rules of Speedball. The only class time that
was spent on management was setting up balls for another speedball game and initial instruction
so around 6-8 minutes. The amount of class time that was spent on the activity of speedball was
the whole time except for warm-ups, time spent on management to get another game of speedball
ready to play, reintroducing instructions, and waiting so around 40 minutes. The amount of time
that was spent reintroducing instructions was between 5-7 minutes. The amount of time that was
spent waiting was only around 3 minutes.
 What do you believe the main objective of a physical education program should be?
 “The main objective of a physical education program is to create physically competent and
confident kids at each grade level. I believe a PE program should expose kids to a wide variety
of activities that challenge both their physical and mental abilities.” – Bre Jordan
 What specific goals did you have for the class that I just observed?(what game did you play,
where did you play it, what equipment is needed to play, etc.)
 “The specific goals I had for the class you just observed were to warm up, go over the
rules/concepts of speedball again since they have already played it, and make sure students show
good sportsmanship by complementing each other after their games. It was played in the main
gym with 4 pug goals, 2 soft coated soccer balls, jerseys and cones.” – Bre Jordan
The Management was estimated around 6-8 minutes and actually took up 8.9% of the lesson.
The Activity was estimated around 40 minutes and actually took up 80.4% of the lesson. The
Instruction was estimated between 5-7 minutes and actually took up 7.1% of the lesson. The
Waiting was estimated around 3 minutes and actually took up 3.6% of the lesson. Based on my
observation, physical education can realistically meet the standards that are laid out by SHAPE
America. The techniques from Appendix C that fit what was taught and learned during my
observation are class attention, expectation, performance checking, teacher as model, non-verbal
signals, managing the environment, calm intervention, positive reinforcement, and proactive
discipline. Bre utilized the time in class that she has with her students to effectively develop their
time managing, playing in the activity, instructing, and waiting. She did manage to secure 80%
of the total lesson time (seconds) participating in the activity of speedball. Along with that she
was able to limit management, instruction, and waiting combined down to around 16 minutes. I
would say each category is good and spends and appropriate amount of time for each one. Based
on this data, I believe this class does have the potential for developing fitness by showcasing
their time management skills with how they approached the lesson. Implications for students’
involvement in physical activity can be detrimental if they decide not to participate and/or don’t
want to play. An implications for students’ involvement in physical activity is not wanting to get
embarrassed in front of others.