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.
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Week Nine – Communication
April 12, 2013 by Erin Brothwell
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Reflection Week Three – Communication
April 9, 2013 by Erin Brothwell
By the third week I could see from reflecting on my actions that I needed to focus on how I communicate with the students as some of them are close in age to me and I can be slightly under confident at times. For example, there are times when I struggle to manage negative behavior or how to handle situations with a participant who has an eating disorder. Therefore, I studied positive behavior management strategies using literature and lectures and seminars to incorporate into this weeks session.
Reflecting in action this week forced me to improve my communication skills when coaching, as at the beginning of the session the children didn’t listen to the instructions properly and spoke over me frequently when I was delivering the instructions and demonstrations. Consequently, I decided to employ a rule using an antecedent approach to try and prevent this behavior from occurring each session I taught. So, in the event of anyone not paying proper attention they would undertake a series of intensive drills, independently with the other coach, for the remainder of the lesson. The reason I decided to apply this rule was because reflecting on action has taught myself that the participants dislike training on their own as opposed to in pairs. Additionally, the research I did in lectures informed me that unpleasant consequences develop, maintain and increase positive behavior and to make this technique effective the consequences must be consistent.
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