Working as a Team

Ms. Cope delves into a practice that is an important part of the Physical Education course, teamwork. She speaks of teaching the importance of being a productive member of a team and the best place to show this in the school setting with instant results and consequences is Physical Education. By playing team sports it shows that to be successful all members of the team need to be involved and working together. At the high school level where I want to teach most of the games and activities are team related so it should be easy to instill the values of teamwork in the students.

She also talks about how she uses the division of responsibilities within a group to show how important all members are. I can use this lesson in my health classes when giving projects out. I can go over broader subjects and have students do projects where each member of the group is responsible for a different part. This forces all members to become masters at their part of the topic and creating an end product that helps other students learn the information. Also the ability to teach is the best way to show if the students have a firm knowledge of the information they need to know.