Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 10
Your current fitness and goals
I can assess my current fitness and use SMART targets to design suitable goals for my training.
- Year 10
Your current fitness and goals
I can assess my current fitness and use SMART targets to design suitable goals for my training.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: fitness testing with maximum effort allows for strengths and areas for improvement to be identified.
- Move: when drawing on a larger scale, we can develop our arm strength and precision.
- Think: comparing fitness test results to national averages helps identify where to focus training.
- Feel: acknowledging areas of fitness that are a strength boosts confidence and feels good.
- Connect: celebrating your peers' achievements enables you to support their development.
Keywords
Testing - the process of measuring physical abilities such as strength to assess overall fitness levels
Smart targets - a goal should be: specific, measurable, achievable, recorded and timed
Assessment - evaluating your current level of fitness
Common misconception
Feeling disappointed if some fitness test results fall below national average.
We all have different strengths and weaknesses and this is why we train to improve our areas of weakness.
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Your current fitness and goals, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Your current fitness and goals, 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 4 physical education lessons from the Health and wellbeing: commitment to a personalised training plan unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Chalk, cones, meter ruler, stopwatches, athletics tape measure or wheel measure, tennis balls, sit and reach box.
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
