Peer Teaching Reflection

Our focus of our teaching was on a slap shot for hockey. I think over all the lesson went well but there were parts that we could improve on. Our voices could have been a little louder, we need to project them so everyone in the gym can hear. Also our lesson ran well with our peers but the slap shot may not be age appropriate for middle school students because of the potential danger. So next time i would pick a different skill. Middle school students could end up injuring themselves or others having a long handed implement such as a hockey stick.
Color coding the sticks for teams also could have been done. We color coded the hot spots to break up the students into two teams but matching the hot spots with the sticks would have been even better. Another thing that we could have done to make the lesson run more smoothly would have been to count down the time it takes for the students to transition. Giving them a specific amount of time will make them hustle more, our students were taking their time when moving from the activity back to the meeting place. Demonstrating our first activity during our introduction at the meeting place would have given the students a better understanding rather than waiting until they moved to their hot spots. It was harder this way for the students to all see a proper demonstration. The last thing i wanted to comment on to improve was to reinforce the rules and call out students when they aren't following exactly what they were suppose to do. We initially told the students that when the whistle blew to put their sticks down by their feet. But when we blew the whistle only a few remembered to put the stick down and we did not reinforce the rule.