Equipment True or False
Not having the correct equipment is one reason to not incorporate gymnastics into your lessons.
False - There are many ways to modify equipment or use other equipment in place of gymnastic apparatus.
The main focus when teaching or creating sequences should be?
Linking actions and transitions from one skill to another. - Let's try a few!
Who developed the BSER framework?
Rudolf Laban
When practicing balance or rotation skills, you should focus on a _____ to help maintain balance.
point/spot or stationary target to maintain balance or overcome dizziness
What are traveling actions?
Moving the body from 1 place to another:
1. Steplike travel using the feet: all steplike actions of the feet are traveling
2. Steplike Travel Using the Hands, Feet, and Knees
3. Weight Transfer
4. Flight
You can use ropes, lines on the floor/ground, or use tape to create lines instead of a balance beam to teach balance skills.
True
Safety and additional ______ are needed when teaching gymnastics.
Rules
WHY?
You need to hold students accountable and follow through with consequences. Be careful of the dare devils or the ones who are insecure/not confident - they may attempt something not safe.
What does BSER stand for?
Body (what the body does), space (where the body moves), effort (how the body performs the movement), and relationships (relationships that occur in movement) Table 3.8
What provides a more stable balance?
Wide or Narrow
Low or High
Wide and Low
What is static work?
1. Focus is to achieve stillness or balance.
2. Starting and stopping movements helps children understand movement and no movement
3. Learning to hold the balance for 3 or 5 counts
4. Balances are held just long enough to show control
Having modifications to lessons is not important.
False - It is important to have modifications to lessons. You can modify lessons in many ways: equipment and rules are 2 examples. it is important to understand the different learning levels of students. YES, in PE!
When should students be encouraged to demonstrate a skill?
1. At the beginning of the lesson (maybe they can perform the skill better than you).
2. In the middle of the lesson (stop and demo the skill to their peers because you see they are performing the skill at a proficient or mastery level).
3. At the end (maybe a group of students has mastered the skills and connected several skills together or you are having students share what their group created, a performance).
Give me examples of traveling actions.
1. Locomotor skills such as walking, running, hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping, galloping, and sliding that use your feet - steplike movements,
2. Animal movements (step-like traveling actions using hands, feet, and knees such as crawling, bear walking, crab walking, bunny hopping, mule kicking)
3. Weight transfer such as rocking, rolling, turning, twisting, sliding
4. Flight skills such as takeoff, landing, suspension, and vaulting.
The center of gravity should be OVER or UNDER the base of support?
OVER
What are the principles of balance?
1. Base of support
2. Center of gravity
3. Good alignment produces strong balance
4. Counter-balance
5. Counter-tension
We will learn more about this when we get to our teaching presentations.
Mats, wooden benches, carpet squares, hoops, and crates are a few examples of equipment that can be used to teach educational gymnastics.
True - Students can balance, travel, rotate, on, over, in, out, under, alongside, or stand beside, behind, in front of, to the left or right of the equipment.
Why do some teachers decide not to teach gymnastics?
Legal liability, overall safety, represents challenges (maybe with them or with their students), equipment issues, clothing/shoes, not knowing how to spot properly, not allowing children to master the skills before moving (just because you want to move on does not mean the students are ready to move on).
Give me examples of static skills.
Balance, point balances, inverted, upright, counter-tension, counter-balance, symmetrical, asymmetrical, individual or group balances
The rate of rotation is faster when _____.
the body is tight.
1. Vertical (longitudinal) axes
2. Horizontal axes
3. Transverse axes
We will learn more about these in the rotation lessons.
Gymnastics should focus on body management.
True - this is not the Olympics.
What is the difference between direct and indirect instruction?
Direct: AKA command teaching; The teacher sets a standard, the children attempt to conform to the standard (having little or no choice), works well a beginning levels of skill development; stifles creativity and thinking
Indirect: Oriented to discovery, questioning, and problem-solving; often called inquiry; children learn fundamentals first then make choices; giving children choices gives them ownership
Give me examples of rotation skills.
90, 180 degree turns; pencil roll, log roll
The rate of rotation is slower when ______.
the body is open.
What does developmentally appropriate mean?
The lesson allows for all children to be successful, not just one student. Children have options on how to respond to a task or question. What may be developmentally appropriate for one child may not be for another. Developmentally appropriate practice does not mean making things easier for children. Rather, it means ensuring that goals and experiences are suited to their learning and development and challenging enough to promote their progress and interest (Penn State)