Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 9
Build resilience
I can demonstrate resilience and focus through a challenging HIIT session.
- Year 9
Build resilience
I can demonstrate resilience and focus through a challenging HIIT session.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: completing a HIIT workout requires the correct technique for energy efficiency, to prevent quick fatigue.
- Think: knowing how HIIT training can improve fitness like speed, power and aerobic endurance, improves performance.
- Feel: overcoming a challenge builds resilience and leaves you feeling proud for continuing when it was hard.
- Connect: resilient leaders inspire others to overcome challenges fostering a sense of shared strength and determination.
Keywords
Resilience - the ability to keep going even when it is difficult
Focus - concentrating on the task without being distracted
Challenge - a difficult task or situation that requires effort and skill to overcome
Common misconception
Pupils think HIIT is only for experienced athletes.
HIIT can be modified to suit all fitness levels. It can be a valuable and quick tool to improve many components of fitness. The intervals can be shorter for beginners and the exercises less intense.
To help you plan your year 9 physical education lesson on: Build resilience, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 9 physical education lesson on: Build resilience, 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 Health and wellbeing: healthy leadership and effective reviewing skills unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
music, stopwatch/timer, mats
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
