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Year 9 - Physical education

Build confidence

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 build confidence in others to increase motivation to complete a task.

Key Notes

  • Move: holding and executing bodyweight exercises successfully requires maximal effort.
  • Think: overcoming a challenge requires altering your own mindset in order to motivate and empower others.
  • Feel: creating a positive motivational environment allows self confidence to blossom for all.
  • Connect: building self-confidence in others through motivation and positive encouragement demonstrates leadership.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • self-confidence: believing in your own abilities
  • motivation: feeling confident in your abilities can boost your drive to achieve your goal
  • mindset: the way you think and feel about things

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils think confidence is constant.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: holding and executing bodyweight exercises successfully requires maximal effort. Think: overcoming a challenge requires altering your own mindset in order to motivate and empower others.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'self-confidence'

believing in your own abilities.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think confidence is constant. Correction: Fluctuations in confidence are very normal. It is not a static state and often determined by the environment your are in and any previous experience you have of that environment.

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