Maintenance and Collection of Materials

• Balls, cones and pinnies are in a bin to start the class.  They may be spread out prior to activity so that when students are assigned to get a ball for example, there is not a mad rush of people all to the same area.

• Have  different students each day that are responsible  for setting up the necessary cones and getting the pinnies or balls for their group.

• At the end of class have the same students be responsible for the collection and return of material.  Make sure that you alternate student selection from lesson to lesson so that they all are involved.  This participation should assisst in developing personal and social responsibility.

• All students are expected to participate to the best of their ability regardless of whether or not they remembered their strip.

• Students that do not bring strip will have to participate in a make up lesson that will occur once a month after school.  Each lesson missed because of missed strip will mean an equal amount of time in the make up class (Penner et al., Cedar Hill Jr. Secondary, 2000).

• There are to be no impeding clothes, low cut or cut-off shirts.  A makeup class will be required if proper attire of running shoes, shorts, jogging or track pants are not worn.

• The procedure to enter the gym will involve having students line up under a designated number so that the teacher can easily mark them present or absent after a 4-5 minute allowance for changing.
• The second option is having the students name a different country (fruit, sport, etc.) if they are present (ie Jane=Canada, Paul=Sweden, Stu=Scotland)to begin the cognitive processes that important for learning.  This is a good way to get students to start thinking in the morning or just after lunch.

• Starting an activity will involve a quick review of material presented in the previous class to give students a clue of what is going on.  This is a good time to use guided discovery method of teaching where the teacher asks specific questions that are meant to have students analyse and construct answers about learned material.

•  Minimize down-time and maximize time on task.  Keep the level of administration short to prevent the loss of student attention.

• Commands should include:  "andddddd...stop" in a loud, clear voice (Hopper, 2000).  This will prevent the yelling of stop, stop, stop, stop, which students will get sick of hearing.  Additionally,  "Hold the balls" is another very good command not just for basketball but volleyball, handball, football and soccer.

• During the explanation of games and skills students should wait until the teacher has had a chance to explain and then raise their hands if there is anything that is confusing or hard to understand.

• In a coed class having the boys step forward and numbering them off and then doing the same with girls prevents a whole team of girls or boys.

• Another great suggestion is to designate one student each day as the odd person out.  That way no one feels left out because this one student is always going to form a group of 3.  Every day the odd person out changes.

• The following ways of organizing students has been offered by Mosston and Ashworth:

Rules

• Simple rules for all students which will make the class run smoothly

Dismissal

• Any questions students have about the day's lessons should be wrapped up before they are to change.

• Students have 7-8 minutes to get changed.  Those who are finished changing early must wait by the door until the bell rings.  Showering is recommended.

• Again, certain students will be responsible each day for collecting the pinnies, cones and balls if needed.

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