1. Pupil Health & Well-Being
Module 3:
Developing a positive and inclusive learning climate for fitness
Welcome participants. Brief introduction to Module 3 (2’)

2. A process of motivation
Motivational climate
Motivation
Intrinsic
Extrinsic
Amotivation
Consequences
Cognitive
Emotional
Behavioural
Present the process of motivation; teacher’s behavior (motivational climate) will form students’ motivation through the satisfaction (or frustration) of basic psychological needs. Motivation, in turn, will result is cognitive, emotional and behavioral consequences from lesson participation. Discuss how different teacher behaviors will influence this process (10’)
Basic psychological needs
Βασικές ψυχολογικές ανάγκες

3. Strategies promoting a climate of autonomy
1. Increase contact time
Time for discussion with students about the lesson
2. Ask questions about what students want to do
Choice of activity
Choice of the exercises’ order
Choice of warming up
Who will show the exercise
Who will be divided for the game
Present the autonomy supportive strategies and discuss examples of implementation into the lesson (8’)

4. Strategies promoting a climate of autonomy
3. Provide students time to work at their own pace
Setting goals
Time to work on their goal
Using the practical teaching method
4. Increase academic learning time
Small groups
Flexible organizational structures of exercises
Present the autonomy supportive strategies and discuss examples of implementation into the lesson (8’)

5. 5. Position of students - teacher
Circular layout when stretching
Supervision of all students
Continuous motion in the class
Present the autonomy supportive strategies and discuss examples of implementation into the lesson (8’)

6. Strategies promoting a climate of autonomy
6. Justification of the activities
Order of the teaching objects
Necessity to exercises’ execution
Order of exercises’ execution
Effect of PE on health
7. Use of recognition
To all students
Improvement, not just performance
Effort, not just result
Inside and outside of the lesson
Present the autonomy supportive strategies and discuss examples of implementation into the lesson (8’)

7. Strategies promoting a climate of autonomy
8. Feedback
Technical instructions to all students
During the execution of the exercises
During the game
Hints of the correct technique and tactic
9. Relationship with students
Answers to all questions
Answers in a positive way
Recognition of the exercises’ difficulty
Present the autonomy supportive strategies and discuss examples of implementation into the lesson (8’)

8. Practices reducing autonomy supportive climate
1. The teacher dominates during the interaction with students
He/she talks more and does not listen to the students
He/she participates in the exercises/games and monopolizes them
2. Problems solving
The teacher demonstrates the correct solutions, leaving no time for students to try
Present the autonomy reducing strategies, discuss examples of how they are implemented into the lesson and how they can be avoided (8’)

9. Practices of autonomy climate reduction
3. Intense guiding of students to specific solutions
Avoidance of methods that stimulate the students’ imagination
Phrases such as “The exercise is right in this way only”
4. Continuous guiding of students
Continuous use of instructions (e.g. go there, do the pass, shoot etc.)
Present the autonomy reducing strategies, discuss examples of how they are implemented into the lesson and how they can be avoided (8’)

10. Practices of autonomy climate reduction
5. Use of instructions that state obligation
Frequent use of instructions reminding students their obligations (e.g. the course is mandatory otherwise you will be considered absent, you are obliged to wear athletics, etc.)
Phrases such as “The exercise is right in this way only”
6. Use of malicious questions
E.g. Why don’t you show us how it is done? Can you do it as I have shown it?
Present the autonomy reducing strategies, discuss examples of how they are implemented into the lesson and how they can be avoided (8’)

11. Practices of autonomy climate reduction
7. Reminder of the deadlines - time pressure
Frequent use of reminder about the time (e.g. a few minutes left, you will not have time to play).
8. Enhancement of the compliance to the teacher’s instructions
Well done, you're a very good student (when the student performs the teacher’s instruction).
9. Criticism to the student
E.g. No, this is not the way to do it.
Present the autonomy reducing strategies, discuss examples of how they are implemented into the lesson and how they can be avoided (8’)