ABSTRACT

So far in this book we have looked at the aims of PE and many of the aspects of teaching you need to achieve these aims. This chapter is designed to help you to see the important relationship between aims and how you teach. It proposes that to achieve any aim, its constituent objectives (for units of work) and subsequent intended learning outcomes (for lessons), it is essential to use an appropriate combination of teaching skills or elements of teaching. Every lesson can be viewed as a challenge to achieve specific learning outcomes with a particular class. In order to meet the challenge you need to design the teaching approach you feel is most effective. The fundamental role of the teacher is to initiate pupils into new areas of learning. The teacher must help pupils to ‘open the doors’ to these new areas. Appropriately constructed approaches to teaching are the keys that ‘open the doors’. How you teach is as important as what you teach in achieving the aims of PE, objectives for your units of work and intended learning outcomes for lessons.