ABSTRACT
Central to your development as a teacher is your ability to observe and analyse what is happening in lessons. This chapter considers observation of pupils in PE. Your observation of the pupils’ response to tasks set is the key to your helping improve their performance. The observations made enable you to give individual and/or whole-class feedback, inform your teaching in the current lesson and also help you in the planning of future lessons and units of work. As a PE teacher, your role is to educate your pupils physically, to provide them with a variety of physical experiences and to promote their physical learning. To fulfil this role you need to draw on and develop your knowledge and understanding of movement. Your knowledge and understanding must cover both the movement associated with individual motor skill and the movement of individuals in relation to others. You need to become a skilled observer and analyser of movement to be able to evaluate pupil performance and provide feedback.
