Eric Krasich Pre-Clinical Experience

Introduction: Eric Krasich, pre-clinical experience 3 student, was placed into Churchill Elementary, to work under the supervision of Mr. Thomas Clason. Eric was scheduled to work with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes. The units that were covered during his time at Churchill Elementary were basketball, hockey, dance, fitness, throwing, mini golf, and kickball. All units except for kickball were taught inside.
Mr. Clason’s classroom management methods resemble the philosophies of Lee Canter and Harry Wong. His teaching methods resemble a combination of the two because of how he lays the foundation of the class within the first week of the school year. Mr. Clason stresses the importance of the rules, routines, and procedures and will spend
Eric utilized what he learned in EDUC 210 (Educational Psychology) about the different intelligences and wrote down all of his objectives along with other information relevant to the lesson on the white board in the gymnasium. This allowed visual learners to learn the content. Eric also would stand in front of the white board and explain the objectives, which benefitted auditory learners. In addition, to target the kinesthetic learners, Eric would use demonstrations. For some lessons like Muscle Mania and mini golf, he and Mr. Clason would demonstrate. In other lessons like line hockey, PACER, and bean bag bocce, he would incorporate students into the demonstration of the task. Eric found that students very much benefitted from being included in the
The students with special needs had aides with them for support, but Eric still had to find ways to differentiate the lesson to make it appropriate and accommodating for the students with special needs. Eric attended the Dupage County Institute at Naperville North High School and was present for the Maximum Access in PE for Students with Disabilities workshop. This workshop discussed universal design and modifying instruction to include all students. Eric used information from this experience to help differentiate his instruction to create a more inclusive environment. Eric’s bean bag bocce lesson was a lesson that he created with free reigns given to him by Mr. Clason. Eric had to create a lesson that taught throwing and after doing some research he came across an activity similar to bean bag bocce. Eric used the concept but adapted the lesson to the students and resources that Churchill Elementary has. This lesson was accommodating to students with special needs because the bean bags were small and light and could be easily thrown by the student. Another example would be the mini golf unit, where Eric planned to use a PVC pipe that Churchill Elementary has for adaptive purposes. To mimic the roll of a golf ball, the PVC pipe was used as a tunnel that the student with special needs could drop the ball into and watch the ball roll. In both lessons, Eric got great feedback from the students as they