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Mastering skills in Badminton – enhanced by Tech!
I have written previously about a Badminton Unit I trialed last year with Simon Mills where we focused on Mastering skills starting with basic and then moving to progressively more difficult skills as the unit went along. I should add that these skills came from a book (yes a book!) from our office – Badminton: Steps to success. This unit was harsh – we expected students to Master a particular skill before they could progress and we pushed them hard on peer coaching and had frequent teacher assessment as part of this unit. This year I am taking my G8 students a step further. Many of these students were a…
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Collaboration
Earlier in our year we had a PD visit from Steve Barkley who is well known around the traps as a huge advocate for Peer Coaching and truly believes that this is the only way to move forward. I didn’t need to be convinced, I really do enjoy collaborative planning and teaching, so long as the people that I am working with are of a simliar mind set and are willing to work for the product/reward of the collaboration. I find that team teaching can be such a great learning curve and allows us the opportunity to be confronted with our own teaching fears but to also share great ideas…