At Edgecomb Eddy School we strive to offer learning opportunities designed to help them develop the skills, strategies, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to become confident skillful movers.
Program Content
All physical pursuits are a mash-up of motor skills, strategy, health related fitness components, skill related fitness components, and social/emotional skills that respect self and others. The degree to which an individual experiences success and enjoyment will depend on their willingness to try new things and spend time practicing. This website is designed to provide adult care givers in our student's lives with an outline of the learning targets that guide lesson preparation and delivery of instruction.
Motor Skills
Developmentally appropriate learning activities are carefully chosen offer students opportunities to progress through the following stages of development for non-locomotor, locomotor, and manipulative skills.
- Learning - Working to wire the critical elements of mature motor patterns
- Practicing - Consistently demonstrates critical elements of a mature motor pattern as is working to increase accuracy while working in isolation
- Challenging - Consistently demonstrates accuracy in dynamic partner and group cooperative activities and is working to extend performance by applying tactical and strategic maneuvers
Locomotor Skills - Run, Gallop, Skip, Slide, Hop, Jump (horizontal plane), Jump (vertical plane) & Leap
Non-Locomotor Skills - Stretch, Curl, Swing, Sway, Rotate, Twist, Turn
Manipulative Skills - Roll, Catch, Toss, Throw, Kick, Dribble (hand/feet), Volley, Strike (paddles/rackets), Strike (long-handled implements)
Body Balance
Non-Locomotor Skills - Stretch, Curl, Swing, Sway, Rotate, Twist, Turn
Manipulative Skills - Roll, Catch, Toss, Throw, Kick, Dribble (hand/feet), Volley, Strike (paddles/rackets), Strike (long-handled implements)
Body Balance
- Maintain balance with stillness and muscular tension on/in a variety of: body shapes, bases of support, levels inverted positions, extensions, equipment
- Travel with balance around and along apparatus or obstacles
- Roll in a variety of directions
- Jump, land, and roll
- Roll to recover, distributing weight to break a fall (safety roll)
- Transfer weight from feet to different body parts/bases of support for balances and/or travels (across mats/over low obstacles)
STRATEGIC THINKING
Opportunities to build and apply an understanding of concepts, principles, and strategies related to skilled movement and performance are a part of every lesson. Class activities (individual, partner, group) serve as a vehicle for helping students understand and apply concepts, principles and strategies to enhance performance and enjoyment.
Movement Concepts & Principles of Movement
Space (personal/general, level, direction, pathway, extensions, and body shapes)
Effort (time, force, and flow)
Relationships (over/under, on/off, near/far, in front of/behind, along/through, meeting/parting, surrounding, around, alongside, leading/following, mirroring matching, unison/contrast)
Strategy & Tactics Specific to Game Categories (We use a Teaching Games for Understanding Model)
Pursue & Evade Games
Offense
Offense
Space (personal/general, level, direction, pathway, extensions, and body shapes)
Effort (time, force, and flow)
Relationships (over/under, on/off, near/far, in front of/behind, along/through, meeting/parting, surrounding, around, alongside, leading/following, mirroring matching, unison/contrast)
Strategy & Tactics Specific to Game Categories (We use a Teaching Games for Understanding Model)
Pursue & Evade Games
- Use an athletic ready position and is prepared to react
- Use boundaries to gain advantage
- Use peripheral vision to see what is going on to the sides
- Use change of speed direction and pathway to gain an advantage
- Use a variety of fakes to force opponent off balance and gain an advantage
- Take time to develop and use a set up ritual
- Stay relaxed and confident
- Apply force principles to increase accuracy from different distances
- Use strategies to stay focused when there are distractions
Offense
- Create personal space with pivots, fakes and jab steps when in possession of the scoring object
- Executes evasive maneuvers (use change of speed, direction, and pathway to creating open passing lanes and support teammates
- Follow priority rules (1 - Try to score if probability is high. 2 - Pass to an open teammate in a better position to score. 3 - Move and control the ball while looking for an open teammate.
- Maintain an athletic ready position
- Position self in relation to opponent, the position of other offensive players and the location of the ball
- Guard opponents to interfere with their movement or object manipulation without committing a foul
- Move to intercept without committing a foul
- Communicate with and use teammates effectively by using visual and verbal messages
- Ready – Always maintain an athletic ready position (eyes, arms, knees, feet)
- Read & React - See where the object is going and move ready to perform the skill with balance and control & vary shot selection and placement with the intent of forcing opponent to move
- Recover – Move quickly back to the point of best coverage on the court
Offense
- Attempt to send the object to an open space
- Maintain an athletic ready position
- Make appropriate decisions based on the situation
- Communicate with teammates about how to share and cover space
HEALTH RELATED FITNESS
Students have opportunities to develop and demonstrate knowledge and skills aimed at achieving and maintaining a health enhancing level of physical fitness
Identify and define components of health-related fitness( cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength)
Analyze physical activities in terms of their health-related fitness development opportunities
Identify and define components of health-related fitness( cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength)
Analyze physical activities in terms of their health-related fitness development opportunities
SKILL RELATED FITNESS
Students have opportunities to develop and demonstrate knowledge and skills aimed at developing an understanding of skill related fitness components and the role they play in physical pursuits.
Identify and define components of skill-related fitness (speed, agility, reaction time, power, coordination)
Analyze physical activities in terms of their skill-related fitness development components
Identify and define components of skill-related fitness (speed, agility, reaction time, power, coordination)
Analyze physical activities in terms of their skill-related fitness development components
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL SKILLS
Every class presents an opportunity to practice personal and social behavior that respects self and others. A progression for learning and practicing commitments that enable students to work, learn, and play – hard, fair and safe as well as a progression for practicing effective communication in partner and group decision-making guide this work and create ongoing opportunities for setting goals and practicing social and emotional skills.
Commitments
At Edgecomb Eddy School we are trying our best to work, learn, and play – hard, fair, and safe. We do this by practicing the skills listed here.
SAFE
Commitments
At Edgecomb Eddy School we are trying our best to work, learn, and play – hard, fair, and safe. We do this by practicing the skills listed here.
SAFE
- Move and stop with balance and control
- Share helpful words and actions
- Pause, breathe, and choose when there is conflict or the world is not going my way
- Use time efficiently by responding quickly to signals and directions.
- Practice honesty to build trust and respect
- Focus on the learning goals and challenges
- Practice resilience and grit. "Be the Ant – Resist the Can’t"
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me at [email protected].
Yours for healthy, active, life-long learning,
Liz Giles-Brown
Yours for healthy, active, life-long learning,
Liz Giles-Brown
