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Name of Activity:
Practicing Proper Social Skills and Rules
Purpose of Activity:
To have students better understand how to properly interact and work with each other during physical education class.Suggested Grade Level:
3-8Materials Needed:
Paper and pencil.
Description of Idea
I do lesson at the beginning of
the year because I want my students to have the tools
necessary to cooperate and work well with each other. I also revisit this lesson after breaks (e.g., Winter break, spring break, etc.) in the school year. If I don't tell them
what I expect out of them then I can't expect them to
accomplish this.
In a classroom, I provide them with the
following guidelines:
1. Always be respectful to each
other.
2. Use wait time when speaking to each other. Wait
time is when you allow someone to finish speaking
before you begin to speak. I tell them to count three
seconds in their head after the person finishes talking
and then they can speak.
3. Speak in a normal voice.
4. Listen to the person speaking don't just hear
them.
5. Don't use killer statements (once somebody uses
a killer statement it becomes impossible to have a
positive discussion with that person).
6. Agree to disagree
(not all disagreements can be solved and it is O.K. to have
differences of opinion). After I explain the rules to the
class I break them into groups and I assign each group
one rule to work with. I ask them to list some reasons
why that rule is important when working with a group.
Then each group comes to the front of the class and
shares their list with the rest of the class. Sometimes I even have them act out a skit that portrays the rule they were using and the class has to guess what it was. At the
completion of this lesson the students are ready to begin
putting these skills to use in the physical education
environment.
To check for understanding, I give the students a test. They
are placed in groups of five and each group is given
one test paper to complete. I give the students two
grades during this time, one for the test and another for
how well their group used the social skills we discussed the previous day.
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