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The Importance Of Learning In Supporting Teaching And Learning

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A key factor through all the stages of PE is allowing pupils to progress through the steps whilst developing their skills in order to widen their knowledge. This is why the role of the teacher is to ‘consider activities in terms of difficulty and quality and to give children opportunities to plan and evaluate their own performance’ (Hopper et al, 2000, pg. 117). This illuminates the idea that throughout the key stages, the difficulties of the tasks should be increased whilst allowing students to focus on the key points of the skill being learnt.

Throughout their education, but in particular in the foundation stage, ‘children will progress at different rates’ (Chedzoy,1996, pg. 47) due to them being exposed to new skills and activities which …show more content…

Williams (2000, pg. 75) highlights that ‘learning activities were selected in response to the perceived needs of the pupils’ suggesting that the way the children engage depends on their age and what they acquire to learn at that specific time. There are a number of ways in which you can have progression through ‘number of players, individual activities, partner activities, small team (three or four pupils), and larger teams’ (Lavin, 2008, pg. 13) so by the time the pupils have reached Key Stage 3, throughout their education they will have progressed from fundamental movement skills into full …show more content…

One of which is competition as Griggs (2012, pg. 71) brings to our attention that ‘games can provide excellent opportunities for pupils to work cooperatively and competitively’ emphasizing the importance of using games throughout the games curriculum, whether it be a full game or a simply game like activity. By bringing the added element of competition to the lesson, allows for the children to strive to be better than the other team, therefore enabling them to progress.
Another key factor is the self-esteem of the pupils as Mawer (1995, pg. 121) promotes the idea that as a teacher we can ‘maintain a positive learning environment through the development of pupils self-esteem’. Thus suggesting that if pupils have confidence within themselves then they will have a better time of learning therefore aiding progression, due to the pupils believing that they can achieve great

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