Teaching in the 21st Century
Advancements in technology since the age of the internet has created new styles of teaching to be practiced. Traditionally, students would sit in their desk and be lectured to about the subject matter and then be tested of their knowledge at the end of each unit. For some students, this style of learning fit their need as they could reproduce the answers to the questions. For others, this became a hindrance in their ability to learn as they needed a different approach to retain the information. With emerging world markets, new sets of demands on the employee in the work place, teaching styles and philosophies adapted to better prepare students for college and career. Hence, forward thinking educators started to utilize the Project-Based Learning model to pull in various skill sets that students will need upon graduating from high school. Project-Based Learning is having students take real world situations, break it down in categories, find the challenge and create the solution, to better gain knowledge of the subject matter (The George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2014). Thus, this style of teaching and learning can be applied to all subject matters within a school curriculum.
Project Based Learning in a Physical Education Setting
Physical Education (P.E.) class is often overlooked as a place of learning for the development of life skills after high school (Fencl, 2014). With the role of the Common Core State Standards, courses in physical education have been placed as a secondary fulfillment of requirements to graduate. The approach to teaching and instruction P.E. classes does not have to be an unimportant class in this new era of teaching, but it can be an impactful course for each studen...
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... physical education classroom to better prepare students for life skills and lifetime fitness (Fencl, 2014).
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This essay highlights the new nation wide curriculum values movement in physical education classes and the propositions it has to maintain and support engagement and development. Through effecting teaching strategies such as Mosston’s spectrum and identifying a holistic approach to valuing movement in the curriculum. Teachers can work towards creating supporting learning environments to cater for all students, and promote total student engagement.
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This approach utilizes concepts, problems, or issues that are similar to ones students have encountered or are likely to encounter in life.
From this EDCP320 course, I have learned a much more comprehensive perspective of what it means to be a good Physical and Health Education (PHE) educator. Aside from the foremost importance of physical safety, proper supervision, space and equipment (Robinson & Randall, 2014), a good PHE educator comprises of four main characteristics: 1) Being encouraging and supportive, 2) Having the ability to incorporate inclusion into the lesson plan for children with disabilities, 3) Being physical and health literate, 4) Being able to provide a safe, respectful, and welcoming environment for diverse students (race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status/SES, religion, and gender identity).
Opponents of physical education in schools state that gym is not the best way to utilize students’ time. Students’ should be given the choice to participate in gym class or not because many students aren’t as athletic and don’t enjoy it enough to want to do it in school. Despite this downfall, PE is important in students’ life and even though some don’t enjoy it as much, they need it in order to be successful in life. If not, diseases and health risks could come up and it wouldn’t be robust. Ultimately, physical education provides superior benefits.
Many institutions are putting Project Management into very high consideration due to the very high commercially-driven market demand, (Myers, 45). It is hence that they exhort an understudy to be studying Project Management apart from their majors. Since they have learnt how major project management is, they are trying to explain to the students who do not understand
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Project based learning, also known as PBL, is a teaching method that encourages students to take their education into their own hands. The definition I found for project based learning is, “ A teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for a n extended period of time to investigate and respond to an engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge” (What is project based learning (pbl)?, n.d.). It helps students communicate with each other and think critically about the world around them. Many schools has already tried to incorporate project based learning into their curriculum. This form of education is students based and the teachers responsibility is to guide the students. While researching, I learned many
Some activity clubs we provide include, dancing, running, jump roping, basketball and soccer clubs, just to name a few. These clubs encourage kids to stay active. Our PE program also sends out monthly newsletters to the parents that give them ways to help their child live a healthy lifestyle. The National Association for Sport and Physical Education states, “Regular physical activity improves functional status and limits disability during the middle and later adult years. Physical activity contributes to quality of life, psychological health, and the ability to meet physical work demands. Physical education can serve as a vehicle for helping students to develop the knowledge, attitudes, motor skills, behavioral skills, and confidence needed to adopt and maintain physically active lifestyles. The outcomes of a quality physical education program include the development of students’ physical competence, health-related fitness, self-esteem, and overall enjoyment of physical activity. These outcomes enable students to make informed decisions and choices about leading a physically active lifestyle. In early years children derive pleasure from movement sensations and experience challenge and joy as they sense a growing competence in their movement ability. Evidence suggests that the level of participation, the degree of skill, and the number of activities mastered as a child directly influences the extent to which children will continue to participate in physical activity as an
Physical Education is the development and care for the body which enhances performance and the management in athletic games. There are levels of teaching the development to different ages and grades. Physical education allows children of all ages to become active when they don’t have the opportunities at home. With these classes they learn how to perform skills as well as enhance them for sports of interest. Children begin to participate and find ways to benefit their health long term. As these children learn to engage themselves and build motivation they enhance their motor skills. Physical education teachers create ways to benefit all levels in development through health related fitness. The overall objective of physical education is emphasizing on reducing risk of illness and increasing life expectancy through fitness.
Therefore, it endeavours to address the constant changes in the world by adapting the way learning is structured to ensure students are suitably equipped for the future (Bolstad et al., 2012). To adapt today’s education to coincide with the changing world, 21st century teaching and learning has incorporated a number of key features to pave the way for success. Promoting active learning that is primarily outcome based, engaging students in research driven and project-based learning and encouraging students to identify real-world problems are all incorporated to ensure students are well equipped for the future (Shaw, 2008). Teachers’ utilise these features in a number of ways to engage and motivate 21st century learners when delivering curriculum content. For instance, Bell (2010) noted when students partake in project-based learning as an approach to instruction that teaches curriculum concepts through a project; it provides them with a greater understanding of the current topic being researched. Teachers’ have witnessed an increase in motivation to learn as the approach is student driven, teacher-facilitated (Bell, 2010). Bell (2010) highlights, that as students solve real-world problems through project-based learning it assists in teaching a number of skills such as