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Third Teaching Experience

In my third teaching experience I continued with my Gaga Ball lesson. This time I focused on defense aspect of Gaga Ball. For a warm-up I had the students work on the basic hitting cues that we went over in the last class. With a partner, I had the students simply hit the ball back and forth. Then I had the students play a game which I referred to as “monkey in the middle, Gaga ball style.” The student in the middle had to attempt to dodge the gaga ball when it was hit below their knees and catch the ball when it was hit above the knees. Overall, I felt like the lesson went much better than my last two but Mr. Yang did point out some bad habits that I am going to have to work on breaking. One problem with my presentation that I was not aware of is that I seem to clap my hands a lot when I get nervous. It is not a major thing but it is enough to distract the students when I am giving instruction and is something that I am going to have to attempt to break while moving on.

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Second Teaching Experience

My second teaching experience was okay but it did not go as I would have liked it to. I taught a sport called Gaga Ball. I had the kids play a game called the circle slap game where the class got into groups of five and slapped the ball around the center of the circle to each other. After a little while of that, I made it into a competition where the kids tried to hit the ball into each others legs. They could block there legs with their arms. Once each student got hit three times they were out until the game was over. Overall, I thought the game went well but I realized that as far as my instruction goes, I need work. I felt like in the future I have to do a better job explaining the game because I noticed that students were not sure of what to do at first.

SUNY Cortland Mini-Conference

On October 10, 2008 I had the privilege of attended the SUNY Cortland Mini- Conference for Physical Education. Our PED 255 class opened the conference with an introduction that we created which followed with a fun game called mix-mix mingle-mingle to get the audience loosened up. I thought we did a good job setting the stage for an emotional speaker named John Passarini. In 2000 John was named the Adapted Physical Education National Teacher of the Year. He also received the Disney Outstanding Teacher Of The Year award in 2003. Later on he was featured on the Wayne Brady show for his big heart and touching relationship with a little girl by the name of Katie Lynch. Not only is John Passarini an outstanding teacher but he is an outstanding person with a huge heart. Overall I was extremely moved by Johns speak. To me John Passarini personifies the reason I entered the Physical Education major here at SUNY Cortland.