Lab D- Teach Me How to Dougie

This lab was a very big eye opener for me.  When I was told that I would have to teach a lesson on hip-hop, I had no clue what I was going to do.  Other than not being a dancer of any kind, hip-hop isn't on the top of the list of music genres that I listen to.  Not only was I supposed to teach hip-hop, which was hard enough since I don't know much about it, but I also had to use technology in my lesson.  This was all a big challenge to me, I had met with my professor and we began running through ideas.  I had to put more into this lesson than any other I had done.  I went through many songs until I finally made my decision to teach the song "Teach Me How to Dougie" by Cali Swag Group.  I chose this song because of the popularity the song and dance had.  If anybody needed to learn 'how to Dougie' it was me.  I had seen the dance but in no way could perform the dance.  I had to spend alot of time watching tutorial videos on youtube before I could actually do the dance.  For the technology portion of my lesson, I used a projecter and speakers to show different videos, tutorials, and music.  Other equipment that I used were ropes and blindfolds.

I wanted to start the class with a hip-hop theme, so for my instant activity I had the class do the Cha-Cha Slide but with a twist.  Since I was going to be teaching "Teach Me How to Dougie," which is an omage to Doug E. Fresh, also known as "the human beatbox," I had each person in the class beatbox during the instant activity.  I followed this up with a video of Doug E. Fresh beatboxing to show the class who he actually was.  It was then time to get into the lesson, I had expected most of the class to be shy, which they were, but they then loosened up.  After a few minutes I noticed that people were coming up to the windows of the gymnasium to watch, this caused most of the class to regress and become embarassed.  When this happened I had the students dance with the blindfolds on, not only was it a task variation but I felt it would help if they didn't feel like all eyes were on them.  This allowed the students to relax.  I then stressed the rope pull cue using the ropes and comparing the move to tug-o-war.  Slowly progressing and giving alot of feedback, which I made sure to give feedback to each person, allowed the students to become increasingly confident throughout the class.

As I mentioned before this lesson was a big eye opener for me.  I previously didn't realize how much work went into these lessons.  I really needed to prepare myself for this since I do not have any kind of hip-hop background.  I actually impressed myself by the time the lesson was over, it really helped my confidence knowing that if I had to teach something that I wasn't familiar with, that I could do it.  Although this lesson was so successful, I felt the most pride during the next class.  The next class I had over have of the students I taught come up to me and tell me that they actually went out over the weekend and used my lesson to dance.





Lesson Plan
Task Progression Sheet

Mini Conference

During the mini conference I attended Coach Babjack's presentation on strength and flexibility.  This presentation was very helpful, Coach Babjack talked about periodization of workouts and other methods of increasing strength and flexibility.  This is very important for me to know since I plan to coach in the future.  I hope to be able to prevent injuries and to get my athletes to maximize their potential.

Time Coding Form

EDU 255 Lab B1

This lab was alot different then the first, although I have played frisbee, I don't know it as well as football which I taught the first lab.  I think this lead to a few of my problems, I didn't feel as successful during this lab.  I didn't realize until after I finished that I had forgotten a whole intriduction, signal for attention, statement about expectation, "hook," and safety statement.  I do think I demonstrated successfully using "DEAD," but I do think that i should have done my demonstrations in the middle of the group so that everyone could see me.  I didn't give as much feedback as I should have.  I think my voice was a lot better during this lab compared to the last.  This lab was very helpful, it opened my eyes to a lot of the things that I need to work on.

EDU 255 Lab A2

I think this experience was better than the first.  This time we had a chance to think about what we were going to do.  I noticed that I did use a hook when mentioning throwing the ball and having it seem as if it was shot down like a duck.  From the start I was fumbling my words which disappointed me.  I tried to use 'DEAD,' and I think that I was successful in doing so.  One thing that I wanted to work on was my voice, I know that I need to speak alot louder and more clear.  I think I did an 'OK' job of giving feedback and I thought it was good that I went over what I taught at the end.

First Day

I wasn't sure what to expect, I have realized that the physical education field is becoming more of a technological field.  It seems that using technology in a physical education setting could be very useful.