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Year 9 - Physical education

Summarising and reflecting on personal 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 use self-assessment to reflect on your personal leadership skills, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.

Key Notes

  • Move: participating in activities with maximum effort allows for a fun review of leadership.
  • Think: constantly evolving as a leader and working on areas for improvement requires reflection.
  • Feel: growing in confidence while developing leadership requires listening to our strengths and areas of development.
  • Connect: trust in ourselves and others is developed through openness and reflection.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • self-assessment: the process of evaluating oneself
  • strengths: the leadership qualities you feel you perform well at
  • weaknesses: the leadership qualities you feel are an area for improvement

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils think self-assessment is similar to being assessed in something.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: participating in activities with maximum effort allows for a fun review of leadership. Think: constantly evolving as a leader and working on areas for improvement requires reflection.

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

the process of evaluating oneself.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think self-assessment is similar to being assessed in something. Correction: Self-assessment is an opportunity to reflect and does not count towards any assessment. It is positive. Leaders are able to grow from self-assessments as they recognise strengths, but more importantly, identify keys areas of improvement.

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