Principles

A list of principles, practical tips and a few things to avoid.

Be professional and be your professional self positive clear precise concise prepared well positioned in lessons calm under pressure slow to judge measured in your praise – there is nothing as damming as faint praise

Have knowledge of the school rules/policies a whistle a watch that works – perhaps a stopwatch, count down timer a spare set of kit in your bag

Take care of the equipment of yourself – you need a rest don’t push it too hard. to keep in touch with your colleagues and share resources. of pupils, you might be the only person that does care about them to show team allegiances – is it right to engage with banter that can easily lead to problems. **T**: What is your team? …**P**: X! the best **T**: Away they are rubbish why do you support them you must be ….…..**P**: Well what’s your team sir/miss…**T**:Y **P**: oh no they are %$£&*^%$%£”£$$£”, **T**: oh really **P**:yeh you must be £$”^” **T**: thanks for that detention perhaps…..

Ensure your facebook account is locked to the max… never talk to a pupil one on one in the store room to issue a warning or punishment no witnesses and just asking for trouble. departmental keys are kept safe you put dates in your diary –report deadlines, regent meetings, parents nights/days that you don’t double book mini-buses/transport or pupils for a fixture if the class is out of school –always check before going ahead you follow up on sanctions – empty threats and promises will lead to nowhere. pupils learn how to put out and away equipment, it is part of the lesson registers are taken for each lesson you register with the GTCS pay your fee and strongly consider you join a union and or the association for PE you are consistent, persistent, insistent and fair in the way you treat pupils. establish class rules, consider writing out a list laminating them and explaining them to your classes in week one. You can try the don’t smile until Christmas approach but fear works in one way respect in an other. Always better to be respected and known for knowing the line, being tough when required and carrying through what you say you will do.

Be positive – Why?

Today class we have hockey, I don’t play hockey I really don’t even like it that much but for the next 6 weeks we are outside and because it is on the timetable we will just have to do it. Hockey is a lot like football and a lot of you I know like football. So part of life is doing things that you just don’t like sometimes so lets get started and get through it.

This is as near as I can recall the words stated by a student teacher before a lesson to a class of 14 year old boys. The result chaos, the thing to learn was the activity and how could anyone care about the activity if the teacher makes this statement. PE is about more than the activity.

Don’t run from there you are too close to your observing partner, you might end up kicking them in the head if you go from there. …..What happens?...Pupil swings leg to see if he can kick the observing pupil in the head. A near miss student teacher now has to spend more time admonishing the pupil. Result lesson time wasted, wrong climate set.