ABSTRACT
The ability to observe and analyse movement is essential to ensure pupil progress in physical education. This chapter considers how mentor can support a beginning physical education teacher to develop their ability to observe and analyse movement. The ability of a beginning teacher to observe and analyse movement depends on their knowledge and understanding of the activity they are teaching. It is useful to ask a beginning teacher to conduct an audit of their confidence across the activities mentor deliver in their school's curriculum. All physical education teachers need an understanding of movement itself. All activities involve movement patterns, that is, a series of movements performed in sequence, with preparation, action and recovery phases. During collaborative planning, agree an intended learning outcome for a lesson episode that mentor will observe and ask a beginning teacher to write a frame of reference and associated teaching points.
