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During a middle school observation, the teacher created a supportive environment by ensuring that all students were involved in a game of handball, regardless of their skill or fitness level. The teacher avoided using exercise as punishment and instead addressed a student's inappropriate behavior by giving them a timeout. Students were encouraged to try and fail without feeling discouraged or embarrassed. Bullying was not tolerated during the observation, and the teacher would have taken action if any occurred. Okay, so here is my poster. We have the middle school observation. The first appropriate language is the environment should be supportive of all students despite skill level and fitness level. The teacher chose a game of handball, where in tradition, some, mostly the athletic kids can dominate the game and be ball hogs and only pass to each other and not really give a lot of the other kids some love. But the teacher did a very good job in this. He made sure that every single person was involved in the game. There were some people that I was watching that did not look like the best athlete or someone that's physically gifted, but they were scoring, they were having a lot of fun, which is what it's all about. After all, it's a phys ed class where we have to improve our students' skills in lifelong activities rather than a varsity sport outside of school or anything like that. An inappropriate language would have been using exercise as punishment. Example of a student said a bad word to the teacher, which is what happened during the observation actually, but the teacher did not make him do push-ups, he didn't say drop and give me 50, he didn't tell me run a mile on the track, because that could have changed his whole mentality on fitness. It made it so that he hated it for the rest of his life. Every time he tried to do fitness, he would just think about what this teacher, this teacher made me do this one time. Except he talked to him and he sent him to the bleachers and he cooled him down and made him sit there in a little time out for a couple minutes. But after all, that's a lot better than any other form of punishment, like push-ups, running the track, or anything like that, sit-ups. The next appropriate thing was students should be encouraged to try and fail without getting discouraged or embarrassed. One of the biggest components of fitness is improving more than last time. Of course, if you try to push more than last time, you're going to fail over and over again sometimes. But physically gifted people might fail less and people that aren't physically gifted will fail a little bit more. But there should be no people bullying or being embarrassed because people make fun of them for failing. For example, if there was a presidential fitness test and someone couldn't do a pull-up, you can't have any discouragement or embarrassment because everyone's at different levels of playing field and everything like that. The last inappropriate language was no bullying. Bullying cannot be overlooked. And it has to be taken seriously. We cannot have people, students at the same age as bullying each other. We cannot have that in the classroom. But during the middle school observation, the teacher made sure there was no bullying. And if there was any bullying, I'm sure that he would have gotten it all taken care of. And that is it.