Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 8
- Year 8
Supporting others to be their best
I can use a range of strategies to motivate others.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: fully extending your body parallel to the goal provides the maximum amount of protection to prevent a goal.
- Think: explaining the rules to others and supporting them to stay within them supports inclusion and fairness.
- Feel: supporting others fosters a sense of connection and makes a positive impact making you feel valued and purposeful.
- Connect: providing encouragement to players of all levels of experience strengthens the sense of team spirit.
Keywords
Inclusion - ensuring all young athletes feel welcome and valued, regardless of their skill level, experience or background
Empathy - understanding and sharing the feelings of young athletes to provide appropriate support and comfort
Encouragement - offering positive feedback and motivation to boost an athlete's confidence, performance and build their self-esteem
Common misconception
If you can't see the outcome of your performance, you are unable to learn how to improve.
Receiving feedback from teammates and other pupils about your performance will enable you to learn and make progress.
To help you plan your year 8 physical education lesson on: Supporting others to be their best, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 8 physical education lesson on: Supporting others to be their best, 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 Inclusive sports: teamship, communication and awareness of others unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Goalball (or other ball such as dodgeball or volleyball); 20 eyeshades; 20+ cones.
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
