Teach Work Sample Review and Results

After completing this Teacher Work Sample and reviewing the results from all of the assessments, I have learned a great deal of valuable information about my teaching and about the students’ learning that has made me further develop and grow as a future physical educator. One thing that I learned from my students’ learning is that all students’ progress, develop, and learn at different rates. From teaching this Drums Alive Unit, I noticed that some students were able to pick up on the Drums Alive skills and concepts right away while others needed more time to develop further on into the unit. Due to this variety of student learning and at different rates, I had to plan and create my lessons, activities, and routines to meet each student’s capabilities while still challenging all students of the class. Another thing that I learned about my teaching during this Drums Alive Unit is that as a teacher, you need to be able to teach through many different learning styles. In every class, each student has a unique way of learning which could be through one or more of the learning styles such as physical, verbal, visual, aural, social, solitary, or logical learning. As the teacher, I taught to each of these different types of learning styles throughout the Drums Alive Unit in order maximize the amount of student learning.

During this Drums Alive Unit, I have learned that it is very important to develop a unit block plan in order to organize your lessons and unit goals. Due to the fact I had a block plan, it was very easy to teach and stay on task with my lesson and all of the information and skills that I wanted each student to obtain by the end of certain lessons. Also, from this Drums Alive Unit I have learned that lesson closures are v...

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... and physical health. I have also learned that as a future physical educator, I am able to assess my students through all domains and use my different types of assessments to prove student learning. In the future, I defiantly will be assessing my students using pre, formative, and post assessments to be able to determine their growth and progress as student learners. As a student teacher, I have had my own growth and progress as well throughout the course of this Drums Alive Unit. In the beginning of the unit, I was more reservedwhen teaching, but as the unit continued, I began to be more relaxed, poised, and confident with what I was teaching. From this Drums Alive Unit, I know that I will be able to take all of my new assessing strategies as well as my new teaching qualities with me and use them with my future students as a future physical education professional.