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