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How to Motivate Students
Who Are Not Usually Involved In Physical Education Activities

A Toolkit for Physical Education Teacher

1. Observation of the students- Relevant context

It is generally accepted that teaching topics in real-life contexts can improve pupil engagement and learning. Sporting contexts are familiar and interesting to many young people, and can easily be brought into the teaching of concepts in many subjects. For example, using real-life data from sporting events to illustrate mathematical concepts, or producing written reports on the events to develop literacy. The use of sporting contexts is a straightforward way to use sport across the curriculum. It requires little effort by the school to incorporate the ideas into standard teaching schemes, but is highly successful in improving engagement of pupils in lessons, which is a key factor in supporting achievement.
The group class during the development of motor activity implements relational, and physical education teacher in the first phase should be observed carefully to set the follow-up activities and to communicate with students about their ability.
In proposing a ANALYSIS OF LEVELS OF DEPARTURE, the teacher should detect motor skills: coordinative and conditional.
Working in groups is important to monitor and detect the sense of sociability and responsibility. Operating within a space, the teacher must observe the level of self-control.
At this stage, the teacher can use different INSTRUMENTS TO DETECT LEVELS OF DEPARTURE. The teacher may have to test engines, can use observation "free" for the evaluation of motor skills. The observation phase is the starting point to begin the phase of communication, with interviews with the class and dialogue with individual pupils.

Learning Objective

The aim of this topic is to provide physical education teachers with suggestions on how to effectively observe the students and through the first step of observation to understand the difficulties of motivating towards sport activities.

Online Resources

Observation of the studentsThis website offers a list of tools for teachers. This tool will help you discover what kind of tasks you are giving your students to perform.