PE at school. Have they got the methods wrong?

Person_one

aliasojo wrote: »

There are a lot of teachers who frequent this site.

Are none of them PE teachers?

I'd really love to hear input from their pov.

I did actually have one really lovely PE teacher, but because she was so good she ended up being a deputy head, and head of PE and taking on all sorts of other stuff that meant she didn't teach that many actual lessons!

DuckEggGingham

Urgh P.E

Memories of the dreaded picking of teams! When I was finally picked through there being no one else left, I use to apologise profusely to the team leader lol

Our P.E teachers were always to interested in being best friends with the "cool kids" strange.

If P.E is the only exercise some kids may do then I would of thought that it would be an absolute priority to make that lesson engaging, productive, fun filled and energetic for ALL kids. Whatever the weather. But sadly the OP could be describing my sons school.

Not much has changed lol!

Person_one

daska wrote: »

There is no logic, he is an @rse.

The excuse I have heard most often is that if the kids have to get changed they 'feel more involved'. Erm... no, generally they just feel cold, bored and miserable. I know, I spent many a games lesson with a 'sprained' ankle/wrist/thumb. I know exactly how it felt and 'involved' was as far removed from realisty as was possible - but sitting on the cold wet grass was marginally more pleasant than being whacked round the head with a lacrosse stick.

Our PE teachers wouldn't let us do homework or read a book if we were sitting out due to being ill or injured, you had to watch!

Justicia

aliasojo wrote: »

I once saw a boy with a stookie and crutches having to stand at the end of the pitch in bad weather.

Goalpost...??

(of course, I jest! )

I hated PE at school, except for cross-country (through the fields and over the "green bridge" over the railroad tracks) in the summer months.

daska

Person_one wrote: »

Our PE teachers wouldn't let us do homework or read a book if we were sitting out due to being ill or injured, you had to watch!

Oh yes, at first we had to stand right by the side of the pitch, sitting permitted only if broken leg/sprained ankle - guess how often I had them LOL. It was brilliant when one games mistress got so fed up with us being 'in the way' (and getting injured as a result) that she set us an essay to do instead and that was the thin edge of the wedge - the other teachers got jealous and it wasn't long before pupils 'excused' from games were subsequently given 'study time'.

Welshwoofs

I also hated PE. I remember once being screamed at by a teacher about team spirit when I refused to sign up to any races in the annual sports day. I was told that I was not allowed to let down my house and the PE teacher promptly put me in for the 400 metres....a decision he later came to regret. I was at the height of my rebellious period and when it came to sports day we started the race furthest away from the spectators and were finishing in front of them. The gun went off, the girls zoomed off and I literally strolled around the track and stuck my middle finger up in the general direction of the PE teacher as I ambled as slowly as I possibly could across the line.

I got a fair few detentions for that one...but he had been warned. I told him I wouldn't run.

aliasojo

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I also hated PE. I remember once being screamed at by a teacher about team spirit when I refused to sign up to any races in the annual sports day. I was told that I was not allowed to let down my house and the PE teacher promptly put me in for the 400 metres....a decision he later came to regret. I was at the height of my rebellious period and when it came to sports day we started the race furthest away from the spectators and were finishing in front of them. The gun went off, the girls zoomed off and I literally strolled around the track and stuck my middle finger up in the general direction of the PE teacher as I ambled as slowly as I possibly could across the line.

I got a fair few detentions for that one...but he had been warned. I told him I wouldn't run.

Lol. I too would have rebelled at that one but I'd not have had the guts to stick my middle finger up at him. :rotfl:

Welshwoofs

aliasojo wrote: »

Lol. I too would have rebelled at that one but I'd not have had the guts to stick my middle finger up at him. :rotfl:

I was pretty awful - hence the moving of schools. My all time greatest rebellious triumph was sneaking a ton of laxitives into the geography teacher's coffee flask during the morning break of the day he'd set a test for our year. That one was fun...particularly as I didn't get caught

Justicia

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I was pretty awful - hence the moving of schools. My all time greatest rebellious triumph was sneaking a ton of laxitives into the geography teacher's coffee flask during the morning break of the day he'd set a test for our year. That one was fun...particularly as I didn't get caught

Blimey - you were (maybe still are...?!? ) just trouble! :eek:

singlestep

aliasojo wrote: »

Please explain the logic to me because right now I just think he's an @rse.

I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with this opinion :-) What can happen, though is that the the information didn't get to the teacher concerned, that there's a standard policy for non-participation (due to the volume of reluctant pupils conveniently forgetting their stuff. In some schools, a PE lesson lasts only 45 or 50 minutes and by the time a group of girls gets changed, trot out the excuses etc, there's hardly time for PE). He should have been a lot less awkward, though, given she was injured in his subject. By the by, is it not ridiculous that PE isn't a 'practical' subject in Scottish schools? I can never work out what is so dangerous about a computer lab that limits maximum class size to 20 while PE classes, involving lots of potential to get injured, can have over 30 pupils per teacher.

I work in a school and, although it looks big and has recently been extended, we are really tight for space, even after the staff room was turned in to two classrooms. When PE outdoors has been impossible - only in the most extreme weather we've seen in the last few years and I can only remember 2 or 3 days like this - we've had classes have to be assembled in wider corridors, office areas and so on. I can see why PE teachers prefer to be outside - even though I, too, remember the miserable lessons - cross country in January etc _pale_