Analysing performance and identifying your best events
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can compare and contrast my relative performance in a range of events.
Key learning points
- Move: the skills that you can perform with the greatest level of fluency, control and consistency are your most refined.
- Think: applying reasoning to judgements about your performance helps to ensure accurate conclusions are made.
- Feel: reflecting on performance in a wide range of activities provides a sense of achievement.
- Connect: sharing opinions about the strengths of others offers an alternative view to make informed decisions.
Keywords
Assessment - the process to make a judgement of performance, knowledge and understanding
Evaluation - reviewing your results, techniques, and efforts to determine which events you excel in
Personal best - your highest recorded performance in an event, used to gauge potential and improvement
Common misconception
All throwing events have the same technique.
While there is a common core technique across all throwing events, each event has a unique set of technical elements that range from the grip, stance, release and recovery phases.
Teacher tip
As pupils refine their techniques, they should start to practise and focus on each element individually. You may decide to spend a lesson on each learning cycle and will need to carefully consider/ risk assess the throwing tasks.
Equipment
high jump module; javelins; shot puts; floor markers; stopwatches; long jump pit; tape measures
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - equipment
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.How could we describe your personal best attempt?
Q2.What would you use a curved approach for?
Q3.What do throwing events all require?
Q4.What is the role of the coach?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What does an effective javelin throw require?
Q2.What does a sense of achievement come from?
Q3.What should an evaluation of someone’s performance include?
Q4.What best describes the primary purpose of assessment?
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To help you plan your 8 physical education lesson on: Analysing performance and identifying your best events, 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.
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