PORTFOLIO REVIEW LESSON PREPARATION
AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT MATERIALS
◉ Why should teachers seek empathy with their students.
Answer: Because learning a golf skill is not always easy for someone
lacking a certain amount of strength or coordination, or someone
who might be a bit overweight, or someone who has experienced a
long line of failures in sports.
◉ What is one reason that teachers should be warm in their
relationships with students.
Answer: Warmth requires teachers to be supportive, optimistic,
encouraging, and positive about the students' efforts in the lesson.
Teachers are role models, they are responsible for displaying the
attitudes they expect in their students.
◉ What must teachers do to create a positive learning environment
within a lesson?.
Answer: Cover the walls of the instructional space with posters,
signs, and pictures. They discover and try new teaching aids to solve
their students' recurring problems, and they seek out books,
magazines, and seminars that will help them grow as teachers.
, ◉ What can teachers achieve by clearly communicating expected
attitudes and behaviors?.
Answer: Teachers who are clear in the delivery of their instructional
messages increase their student's ability to interpret, comprehend,
and remember learning cues.
◉ How should teachers represent consistency in their interactions
with students?.
Answer: A golf professional must look past his or her personal likes
and dislikes, and treat all students' behavior with a level of
consistency (be fair).
◉ Why is it important for teachers to spend time getting to know
and understand their students?.
Answer: Every student who comes to the lesson tee has interests,
aspirations, rights, responsibilities, concerns, obligations, and
enterprises outside the confine of the golf facility. Taking an interest
in students' lives reveals a sincere concern for them as people. This
is an important prerequisite for a developing relationship.
◉ One difference between expert instructors and average
instructors is the ability of the expert instructors to reciprocate
immediacy by revealing personal information about themselves. (T /
F).
Answer: T