Active games en active learning in Cambodja - Sofie De Rijck : 27th/28th november 2018 - Teaching physical education in Xavier Jesuit College

After a long, safe and good flight from Brussels to Siem Reap, I travelled to Xavier Jesuit College where everyone welcomed me hearty.

I'm here to work on the "Learning outcomes of Physical Education". During 4 days I will teach different classes for kindergarden 2, 3 and grade 1, 2, 3 and 4. I will share my knowledge about motorial skills like balance, ball skills, running skills,... and show lots of examples where physical education increase social and cognitive competences of the children as well.

Teachers and sister Anne are involved and translate my instruction. They teach together with me. I try to give them a structure for organising a PE class and to learn the skills/competences to the children. After a warming-up (with or without music), we do a circulation to improve skills or different exercises in small groups. At the end of lesson we play a game.

On Tuesday (27th november 2018) I teached my first PE-lessons. Great experience! Also on Wednesday (28th november 2018) the lessons were interesting and nice to teach. As a teacher you learn a lot to organise everyting with big groups of enthusiastic children. Teachers and children do/did a wonderful ACTIVE job! Great to see big smiles and progressions in learning motorial, social and cognitive skills by physical education.

Pictures tell more than thousand words...

Teaching in campus Dey Lo:

With the financial support of the local government (Provincie West-Vlaanderen) and university college VIVES I bought some extra equipment (in Belgium and Sisophon):