2 examples of Physical Education cooperative learning activities

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Why not CLIL?
TASK 2
Using Cooperative Learning in your Unit Plan.
Once you have clear ideas about your topic it is time to think how are you going to teachit and
workwithyour students.Complete the followingchartto introduce Cooperative Learning.
You are going to describe how are you going to organize your students in the class: pairs,
groupsof three or four,whole group,……
And then you have to choose two cooperative learning techniques you will introduce into your
unit and tell us how you are going to work with them: what task are you going to use using
them.
ClassOrganization:25 students,outsideplayground,1h
Cooperative LearningTechnique 1:
1. Team Pair Solo (Kagan)- Students do problems first as a team, then with a partner, and
finally on their own. It is designed to motivate students to tackle and succeed at
problems which initially are beyond their ability. It is based on a simple notion of
mediated learning. Students can do more things with help (mediation) than they can do
alone. By allowing them to work on problems they could not do alone, first as a team
and then with a partner, they progress to a point they can do alone that which at first
theycoulddo onlywithhelp.
Task youare goingto work: TOTAL TRAINING 20’ SESSION
20’ in each of 4 SESSIONS, the restof the time we do other activities.
Session 1. The whole group directed by the teacher. The teacher explain this training
methodprinciplesanddirecta20 minuteslongexample.
Session 2. Five groups of five members organised by fitness level. Students choose the group
they want to be part depending on their fitness level and work together to plan and practice
theirowntotal trainingsession.
Session 3. Pairs organised by fitness level. The same as before but in pairs and in a more
specificwaybasedonthe skillswhichthe twostudentsneedtoimprove the most.
Session 4. Solo. Every student must be able to develop its own training session in order to
getthe maximumbenefit.
Cooperative LearningTechnique 2:
2. Jigsaw - Groups with five students are set up. Each group member is assigned some
unique material to learn and then to teach to his group members. To help in, the
learning students across the class working on the same sub-section get together to
decide what is important and how to teach it. After practice in these "expert" groups
the original groupsreformandstudentsteacheachother.Testsor assessmentfollows.
Task youare goingto work:WARM UP
Groups of 5 members.Eachmembergeta letterA,B, C,D, E.
FirstSession:A membersare taughtand providedof material relatedtoaerobicactivities.
B membersworkonarticularmobility
C membersworkonstrengthexercises
D membersworkonspeedexercises
E membersworkonflexibilityexercises
They must studied it and search for more useful information with feedback from the
teacher.

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Why not CLIL?
Second session. Every member comes back to the original group and teach their mates
aboutthe warmup part studied.Thentheyputitinpractise.