Critcal Thinking and the role in Physical Education?

Question

What are good examples of the role critical thinking plays in physical education? How can you make it apart of your classroom?

Answer 1

Well, I'm not a PE teacher, but as a classroom teacher, I'd say that in planning a strategy for a game, such as basketball or football, or in following the rules of a game, would be an application of critical thinking.

I personally am no athlete (by a long shot!!) but have listened to the basket ball players when they start fussing about which play they need to do for the upcoming quarter, or something like that, and the thinking that goes on in there is really amazing.

As for how to incorporate that into your classroom, I'd say it would go hand in hand in following rules, both classroom rules and the rules of any game you play with the kids, test taking skills, having the kids create their own game sometimes, working as a team itself requires critical thinking, and so on.

Answer 2

Step 1. Cognitive Organising

Asking appropriate questions is an essential ingredient of the critical thinker. Less effective thinkers generally fail to “read” the environment accurately and interpret the information available to them. If this stage is unsuccessful and learners fail to recognise the problem then the ensuing process of solving it will be flawed as a consequence. Questions may be teacher or coach–led guiding students to consider the information for themselves:

“ Is my approach run to the ball straight?”

“ What part of my foot strikes the ball?”

“Where does my follow- through end up after the kick?”

Once defined and appropriate questions asked, the learner organises and assesses the relevant information, which leads to the next phase in the model.

Step 2. Cognitive Action

At this stage that the learner begins to make initial judgements about the problem and organises a response to it. These are a series of deductions and hypotheses based on previous information received and an analysis of this. In a Games lesson a class might be asked to generate three or more ways to send a ball to a hoop target a short distance away. This task requires students to use previous information, compare and contrast attempts, make inferences and subsequently select movement solutions.

Steps 3 & 4. Cognitive and Psychomotor Outcomes

In the model cognitive and psychomotor outcomes are presented separately, yet they should not be viewed as mutually exclusive. In order for learners to assess hypotheses generated from the previous steps in the model, it is necessary to test them. A way to test a hypothesis cognitively is through a student offering his or her opinion to the teacher. As a psychomotor function it could be tested through performance of the motor skill. An example to illustrate this comes from Gymnastics where students might be asked to link together a series of actions in a sequence. This requires them to consider how the ending of one skill leads mechanically and aesthetically into the beginning of the next skill (cognitive outcomes). Working either alone or in pairs they could then explore how to connect the actions together in a sequence and evaluate it against set criteria.

McBride points out that critical thinking does not necessarily follow a systematic, unidirectional sequence. He suggests a loop is inherent in the process whereby the learner performs the motor act and then assesses the outcome. It is on the basis of performance that other questions may be asked, judgements altered and new hypotheses formulated. Accepting existing information, analysing it in a series of organised steps and progressing it to an eventual and considered outcome, is the very essence of critical thinking in Physical Education.

Answer 3

The need for critical thinking is vital in Physical Education. Name one coach or trainer who doesnt use critical thinking in planning training or strategy. On a team we need to use critical thinking in working together and anticipating what our teammates would do. Individually we need to use critical thinking in planning our health and exercise programs. We need to use critical thinking when we analyze how our bodies feel and what they need.

Answer 4

Dont lert the kids do p.e gives them a break feom critical thinking that they do in the rest of there classes

Answer 5

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