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Year 9 - Physical education

Leadership skills

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 demonstrate leadership skills in a small group.

Key Notes

  • Move: moving with confidence and projecting your voice, supports others to succeed.
  • Move: being ready to move and respond in a variety of different challenges leads to success.
  • Think: good communication improves teamwork, enabling a higher chance of a successful outcome.
  • Feel: completing an activity successfully in a team requires self-motivation to keep trying.
  • Connect: taking turns to be the communicator shows fairness and ensures everyone respects each other.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • leader: someone who guides and influences others to achieve their goals
  • teamwork: working with other people to complete a task
  • communication: sharing ideas and information with others

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils think all effective leaders are loud and shout to be heard.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: moving with confidence and projecting your voice, supports others to succeed. Move: being ready to move and respond in a variety of different challenges leads to success.

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

someone who guides and influences others to achieve their goals.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think all effective leaders are loud and shout to be heard. Correction: It is common to hear a leader with a voice which is projected when communicating. However, there is so much to effective leadership beyond verbal communication, such as, active listening, knowing your team and showing empathy, to name a few.

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