Week Nine – Communication

Reflecting on sessions comes naturally to me, as soon as my session has finished I immediately think about what I would change and what I have done well. This week I felt that my communication skills had vastly improved compared to when I first started teaching at the Lincoln Wellington. When I have reflected on the past weeks as a whole I realised that my confidence had grown and the group respected me due to my coaching philosophies and my effective communication skills which have developed over time. Reflecting in action taught me that I needed to use strategies like keeping the children that tend to misbehave active, for example, using them to show demonstrations to the rest of the class and asking the children that like to speak a lot to formulate their own ideas to teach the class themselves. I thought this was appropriate due to members of the group being at an age where these kind of leadership roles will help them within the physical education curriculum at school. I felt confident about this due to other voluntary work I have done. To enhance my communication skills even more I would focus more on individual rapport rather than just trying to communicate well with the group as a whole, especially with some of the girls in the group who are sometimes very challenging to teach. To do this I would go round the groups more actively, offering support and more coaching points to build relationships with the whole group on an individual level.