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Year 9 - Physical education

Adaptability and flexibility

Health and wellbeing: healthy leadership and effective reviewing skills

Unit Summary

This unit will explore ways to lead, motivate and set SMART targets for themselves and others to help construct a meaningful fitness based activity. Pupils will also learn about some of the barriers to participation and how to review progress to help maintain motivation.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to be adaptable and flexible to the needs of your group, environmental conditions and changes.

Key Notes

  • Move: working at full intensity in a changing fitness session requires using the correct technique.
  • Think: using initiative to adjust plans demonstrates quick thinking and adaptability.
  • Feel: dealing with changes successfully helps to build feelings of resilience.
  • Connect: being responsive to the needs of others shows a leader is attentive and cares about their team's wellbeing.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • adaptability: the ability to modify to meet any new conditions that arise
  • flexibility: the ability to adapt easily and quickly to different situations or needs
  • initiative: doing something without being asked, that may not be planned to suit the needs of the group

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils think being adaptable as a leader is when there is a forced change.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: working at full intensity in a changing fitness session requires using the correct technique. Think: using initiative to adjust plans demonstrates quick thinking and adaptability.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'adaptability'

the ability to modify to meet any new conditions that arise.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think being adaptable as a leader is when there is a forced change. Correction: Adaptability for an effective leader is when it is always happening and the leader is responding to how the needs of the group are being met and if the environment is working or not.

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