PAT unit 1

• Qualities of a good Physical Education Teacher:

  • Create and maintain a physically and emotionally safe learning environment for all students
  • Respect everyone's dignity and worth, helping students value their own identities and appreciate differences in others
  • Foster growth in all students by integrating intellectual, physical, emotional, and social learning
  • Provide a supportive environment for positive social interaction and team building
  • Assist students in becoming active, inquisitive, and perceptive individuals who reflect upon and monitor their own learning
• Collaboration with other staff:

  • Collaborate with academic teachers to support students who have missed academic classes due to sports participation
  • Organize periodic fitness workshops for school staff and parents
  • Identify opportunities to incorporate physical education and physical activity into community building initiatives, themes, and events
• Maintaining professional etiquettes:

  • Dress appropriately for a physical activity environment
  • Arrive and depart school according to school timings, allowing time to prepare for instruction and other responsibilities
  • Communicate effectively orally and in writing
  • Present curriculum using research-based materials from various sources
  • Use culturally relevant instruction strategies addressing all learning styles and ability levels
• Commitment to lifelong learning and contributing to the profession:

  • Engage in professional development activities such as research projects, conferences, presentations, and reading
  • Serve as a mentor to academic teachers in health and fitness
  • Encourage colleagues to set and attain high standards for student achievement
  • Use reflection for self-assessment to improve teaching practice
  • Continually seek to extend knowledge base and best practices in physical education
• Host of activities within the educational organization:

  • Service Program provides knowledge about health, hygiene, nature, environment, and psychological principles of physical education
  • Intramural Program offers skill development through physical activities within a group
  • Extramural Program allows interaction through competition between groups
  • Fitness and recreational programs provide fun, thrill, action, activity, and skill to meet individual fitness needs
• Conducting school assemblies

  • School assemblies bring students and teachers together to share information, make announcements, and showcase talents
  • • To make the students or group of students come forward and present a drama, skit, dance
  • help them gain self-confidence and connect better with their peers
  • To give a platform to almost everyone to share a common concern pertaining to the school or even a larger community
  • • To make the students and teachers understand each other and obtain mutual trust
• Organizing an assembly: -

  1)      tasks before the assembly- allocate where everyone will stand

  -get the theme of assembly approved by the principle

  -identify student who can conduct the assembly

  -make an agenda

  2)      tasks during the assembly-check if everyone are ready

  -check sound and light systems

  -check if the preparations to invite principle and special guest are proper

  -make sure first aid kit is ready

  3)      tasks after the assembly- disperse in orderly manner

  4)      categorize tasks
• Things to keep in mind before/during an Assembly:

  • Do not conduct Assembly during bad weather like an extreme hot day/cold day
  • The duration of the Assembly should not be more than 15-20 minutes
  • Make sure the loudspeakers are not too close to the students
  • It is good to have two separate assemblies; one for Junior and one for Senior students
  • Keep First Aid ready in case of any emergencies
• Parent Teacher Meeting (PTM) is a meeting between the school academic staff and parents. In a PTM, parents are briefed about the progress of their children studying in the school
• Agenda for the Parent Teacher Meeting:

  • Parent awareness about the PE program in the school
  • Discussion on the Fitness report of the child/children
  • Exhibition of props and equipment
  • Distribution of Fitness Report Cards (if any) before the PTM
  • Sharing details of sports events conducted so far and upcoming events
  • Communication/one-on-one interaction with parents
• During the PTMs:

  • It should be a two-way conversation
  • Emphasis on learning and discussing strategies to support student learning
  • Understand the child's strengths and weaknesses
• Preparing for a Parent-Teacher meeting:

  • Send invitations and communicate the importance of the meeting well in advance
  • Share guidelines with parents and teachers about the goals of the conferences
  • Publicize information about the conferences in the entire school community
  • Share data about the child's attendance and academic performance
  • Create a welcoming environment for parents by displaying students' work in the classroom
• Sample letter

   From:

  Principal,

  St Joseph’s School,North Point,

  Darjeeling 734220West Bengal

  2nd October 2016

  Dear Parent,

  The Parent Teacher Meet for Class VI in which your child studies is fixed for 16th October 2016. Kindly make it convenient to attend. This is an important meeting in which your child’s merits and shortcomings shall be discussed and decisions to improve will be taken.It is only when parents co-operate that a child’s education is fully ensured.

  Both parents are welcome.

  With best wishes.

  Yours sincerely,

  (Signature and Name of the Principal