Mentorship and Future Development
Mentor Feedback and Future Development
What's involved?
Today's blog has focus on communication, why mentorship can have a real driving force in development. Our position has a mentor approach for the leaders of the Sports Crew but we also have people who help our own development at JCPE, that being Vicci Boyd, lecturer for Sport and exercise sciences at Liverpool John Moores University. As usual resources will be included at the end of today's blog make sure you check it out!
Improving the knowledge
Recently children at Frodsham CE Primary School have returned back to School after their Christmas break. The beginning of a new school term give us the chance to bring the whole Y6 class together to communicate, give their own feedback and develop the club and leaders. We discover new goals and targets, this new year brings new challenges to the leaders. We are aiming for the children to lead games in two different sports in the same session. Dodgeball seemed a success for the leaders, so they wanted to continue that trend. We will now improve the children's dodgeball knowledge by supplying a new dodgeball themed game every Friday, for the children to lead the following week. But children where also given a JCPE Game booklet which contained small games involving Tri-golf, netball, football etc... The leaders enjoyed the new dodgeball and golf conditioned games, they thought about adaptations, how they will make their club sessions better than the rest! Which was fantastic to see.
What we discovered with our JCPE - SportsCrew meeting - Competition
If you're a teacher, parent, guardian or even an aspiring individual, you'll know the power of competition. It's something we will have in or lifetime in one way or another, maybe you play a sport at a weekend, maybe you are interviewing for a new job and have a number of others trying to achieve the same goal. Being able to cope and enjoy competition is a major life lesson we have identified as a good challenge for the club to uptake. We named our competition "clash of the groups". The leaders done well to create games last term to incorporate competition into their sessions for the participants, so we've challenged the SportsCrew groups to see who will be the best, which group will have the best sessions, come up with original ideas and ultimately all learn from each other. They all seemed really excited to begin, and of course a reward will be needed for the winners, they get to choose a toy of their choice at the next Prize-Giveaway.
What we discovered with our LJMU - JCPE meeting - Effective Support
Our meeting help discover what works in the project and what needs to be improved. The challenge we have identified is how to support the leaders without being with the children everyday. Resources need to be a top priority and of high quality. Also the way in which we approach the project, we approach the challenge of increasing lunchtime physical activity, with a sports club lead by year 6 children, so what we find very important is making sure the children feel as though they are in charge. All we can do is support the children, the children must be the ones to make the decisions and that they know it's OK to make mistakes, as long as you reflect and change. If the mentor style and resources that are left for the children work, what should be the result from this is the goal of increased physical activity being achieved. So far the plan seems to be working, an increase in resources this term has given encouragement to the children, the "clash of the groups" has motivated the children and MDA. One in particular resource for the MDA has been made to help the MDA know what to observe but at the same time a tool for how to mark the competition of the SportsCrew leadership competition. This becomes a help in hand for the MDA to support the 5 min reflection at the end of each session, a guide for the children on how to improve and a support for the MDA on what to watch for the improvement of the club (Below).
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