Chapter 10
The role of TPCK in physical education

As with any discipline, there are many factors that increase a teachers effectiveness and the growth and development of the children. From reading this chapter, I now know that teaching physical education is no different. When teaching physical education there is some uniqueness to the content and pedagogical knowledge. Again, when integrating technology within the content area tends to raises more challenges. I have seen the importance of technology in the field of physical education in terms of computer generated applications that provide a deeper look into the body and specific medical applications but unfortunately, these types of technologies are expensive and have a somewhat limited role in physical education at the elementary level.
However, I think about some of the children in my school and I can’t help but think that some of these children would benefit greatly from an individual program that tracks their growth and development while becoming more healthy and active. Getting the equipment and data system to allow this planning to occur is costly and time consuming, but I think the value would be immense.
Overall, I understand more about what the children must learn (the how and why) to perform specific skills and that they must have lots of opportunity to practice these skills. I know the teacher must provide immediate feedback of knowledge of performance to enhance the children’s proficiency level. I begin to think that this style and sequencing of learning happens in my classroom everyday. In Kindergarten, the children are acquiring basic literacy, math, science, health, social, behavior, and life skills that they must constantly practice and explore, while getting feedback and ways to improve their individual learning and growth. I also can find similarities in regards to ensuring the brain with the muscles and repetitive connections that must occur simultaneously for the children to be successful.
The most important lesson from this chapter was “Just like their students, teachers need knowledge of performance feedback to change their teaching behavior” (219). With reading and attending