Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 9
Design your programme
I can design a personalised training programme to meet my individual needs and goals.
- Year 9
Design your programme
I can design a personalised training programme to meet my individual needs and goals.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: moving with enough intensity to overload the body is essential for improving fitness.
- Think: choosing a drill that matches your goal helps target the right areas for improvement.
- Feel: pushing the body to overload can feel rewarding when it’s understood that it will improve fitness.
- Connect: working with others can keep you motivated and support each other’s progress.
Keywords
Overload - making the body work harder than it is used to so it can improve
Intensity - how hard the body is working during exercise
Motivation - the drive to keep working hard towards your goal
Common misconception
Pupils may believe that improving at a physical activity requires them to perform the event in full repeatedly.
Help pupils to understand that training drills which overload the body are much more effective when training to achieve a goal, rather than simply repeating the full performance.
To help you plan your year 9 physical education lesson on: Design your programme, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 9 physical education lesson on: Design your programme, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
Explore more key stage 3 physical education lessons from the Athletics: fitness development of pace or power unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
worksheets, drill choices (additonal materials), cones, stopwatches, measuring tapes
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
