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Year 9 - Physical education

Goal setting and motivation

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 set goals using SMART targets to increase motivation through teamwork activities.

Key Notes

  • Move: completing teamwork activities with high intensity requires good body control and balance.
  • Think: remain calm and focussed to complete a challenge.
  • Think: apply specific, measurable and achievable targets of the SMART principle to improve team productivity.
  • Feel: be motivated through target setting to increase positive engagement in teamwork activities.
  • Connect: working with others to set goals improves motivation for all.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • goal: a specific aim or target that a person or group strives to achieve
  • SMART targets: a goal should be: specific, measurable, achievable, recorded and timed
  • commitment: the dedication and determination to follow through on a plan or goal with consistent effort and responsibility

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils think a goal or a target it the end product or outcome to be achieved.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: completing teamwork activities with high intensity requires good body control and balance. Think: remain calm and focussed to complete a challenge.

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

a specific aim or target that a person or group strives to achieve.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think a goal or a target it the end product or outcome to be achieved. Correction: A goal can be based on outcome, however it can also be a goal set about the performance or process of doing something. For example, building a 3-2-1 pyramid in the quickest time compared to building the 3-2-1 pyramid without dropping any objects.

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