Teaching Gymnastics In PE

Gemma Coles is a gymnastics specialist working in a number of schools on the south coast of England delivering PE lessons and CPD for teachers. Gemma also runs workshops and courses for school and conferences. She has taken her expert knowledge and experience and created this course showcasing a number of gymnastics PE lessons for you to learn from and develop into your school’s programmes.

The lessons vary in their structure and content providing a wide array of lessons using both equipment and minimal matting. Enabling you to adapt and deliver a wide variety of lessons tailored to your environment and pupils.
Each lesson uses a full class of children in a real PE environment, the children in the video are not gymnasts, making the lessons exactly how they would be in an everyday teaching environment. No children were removed because of ability or behavior, the lessons are differentiated to maximise participation for all students while making progress in gymnastics.

This course is 8 hours of professional development, including:

• 6 30-50minute videos of actual PE lessons + 8 unique bonus warmup games.
• 6 Quizzes to test knowledge on each lesson.
• Downloadable posters worth £31.98
• Certificate of Completion
• 24/7 Access to Course
• 1 Years Access to Course Content
• 1 to 1 Communication with the instructor

How will you benefit from this course?

• Easy to replicate lessons that have been tried and tested in real classroom environments.
• Actual footage of gymnastics lessons in action
• Skill development and progressions.
• Adaptable lesson plans
• Achievable and challenging for all abilities
• On tap access to gymnastics specialist Gemma Coles
• Varied equipment and class layouts suitable for all environments.

What will your students learn?

• Games
• Fundamental skills of Gymnastics
• Rolling
• Balancing
• Vaulting
• Pair and Trio Balances
• Hand Apparatus

Course Instructor

Gemma Author

Course Introduction

Introduction

Welcome and Congratulations on enrolling onto the Teaching Gymnastics in PE Course!

Lesson 1 Pts 1-8: Gymnastics Warm-Up Games

Warm Up Games

These warm up games are designed to begin your gymnastics or any PE lessons in a fun and engaging way.

Lesson 1 Pt 1: Gymnastics Warm-Up Game – Tricking The Gymnast

Watch the video ‘Tricking The Gymnast’ and take notes so that you can implement this game into your lessons!

Lesson 1 Pt 2: Gymnastics Warm-Up Game – Transport

Watch the video ‘Transport” and take notes so that you can implement this game into your lessons!

Lesson 1 Pt 3: Gymnastics Warm-Up Game – Stuck in the Mud (Mirroring)

Watch the video ‘Stuck In The Mud (Mirroring)’ and take notes so that you can implement this game into your lessons.

Lesson 1 Pt 4: Gymnastics Warm-Up Games – Stuck In The Mud (Shapes)

Watch the video ‘Stuck In The Mud (Shapes)’ and take notes so that you can implement this game into your lessons!

Lesson 1 Pt 5: Gymnastics Warm-Up Game – Simon Says

Watch the video ‘Simon Says’ and take notes so that you can implement this game into your lessons!

Lesson 1 Pt 6: Gymnastics Warm-Up Games – Body Parts

Watch the video ‘Body parts’ and take notes so that you can implement this game into your lessons!

Lesson 1 Pt 7: Gymnastics Warm-Up Games – Over & Under

Watch the video ‘Over & Under’ and take notes so that you can implement this game into your lessons!

Lesson 1 Pt 8: Gymnastics Warm-Up Games – Bendy Wendy

Watch the video ‘Bendy Wendy’ and take notes so that you can implement this game into your lessons!

Lesson 2: Floor Skills

Floor Skills

In this gymnastics floor skills lesson, we begin with leaps, then move on to cover a number of gymnastics rolls and skills.

Lesson 3: Bench Rolling and Jumping

Bench Rolling & Jumping

Within this lesson you will learn many different aspects of how to use a bench appropriately within your lessons.

Lesson 4: Vaulting

Vaulting

Within this lesson we cover the fundamentals of vualting. use these tips and tricks to get your pupils vaulting without even knowing it!

Lesson 5: Pair & Trio Balances

Pair & Trio Balances

Within this lesson we show you many different ways to ensure all your pupils feel included and valued through Pair and Trio Balances.

Lesson 6: Routines

Routines

Within this lesson we cover how to take the skills you have learnt and implement them into a routine.

Lesson 7: Apparatus

Apparatus

Apparatus can be daunting if you do not know how to set them up safely, this lesson will make you feel much more confident with this.