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John Boynton (Johnboynton)
Junior Member
Username: Johnboynton
Post Number: 2
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 12:07 pm: |       |
Golf in (inside) physical education—if it could be done, of what value would it be to your students? Would it help you meet your physical education goals and objectives? Put the hurdles aside and focus on the benefits to you and your students. Let's just "blue sky" the possibilities for a bit.....
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Joe Herzog (Bigfish344)
Junior Member
Username: Bigfish344
Post Number: 2
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 9:47 pm: | |
Golf provides a variety of opportunities in several areas. I was able to set up an 18 hole course on our large field and we played with wiffle balls. After school I let kids hit from corner to corner into the baseball backstop with regular balls and 8 irons. We played stroke, match play and best ball and kids kept a running record in both competitions, so some simple math was involved. I provided them with catalogs and they had to figure the cost of getting started. They also had to call a local course (in the San Joaquin Valley)and find out green fees, number of par 3's, 4's and 5's and other basic info, so there was some local geography as well. We went into the science of the swing, as I taught a short unit on Newton's Laws of Motion, and they learned about spin, loft of the club, air density and the like. Kids really enjoyed the unit. I would like to have taken them to a course, but all of our local courses were taken up with golf teams, in the afternoon and our two allowable field trips went to skiing and fly fishing. Joe Herzog |
John Boynton (Johnboynton)
Junior Member
Username: Johnboynton
Post Number: 5
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 11:06 am: | |
Josh, are you a Phys. Ed. teacher? You've certainly approached golf in a dynamic way. Did your students have any golf background? What size class did you have? Is this something you do every year or was it too labor intensive? California's a golfing state! I'd think that a lot of teachers are trying to introduce some kind of golf unit. What would you say? And last question: Did you try and get "technical" at all regarding the grip, or swing, etc.? |
Joe Herzog (Bigfish344)
Junior Member
Username: Bigfish344
Post Number: 3
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 12:27 pm: | |
John: I am a retired PE teacher, after 36 years in Fresno, CA. Our class size ran 35-40 students. Class size was a battle that we won after a hard fight...another story. It has since been lost. Yes I did teach an overlaping grip and we worked diligently on stance and addressing the ball as well as the etiquette of the game. I played the game every year; a couple of others played, but sporadically. Our school was composed of about 70% limited english speakers and the game was pretty new to them. We were about 35% SE Asian and they took to the game quickly, and in fact we ended up with one of the premier middle school golf teams in town. I video taped each kid taking three swings at the ball and used that as one of my assessment tools, along with peer and self assessment and a rating sheet they kept on their daily progress, with a quick write at the end. I would say that less than 5% of our kids had ever played golf and that's probably optomistic.
I read where some notable personality, I forget the name at the moment, described golf as a long walk, spoiled. I find the game enjoyable and I never use a cart unless the people I play with wish to do so. Most golf courses support lots of wild life, so it can be an enjoyable walk, regardless of how well you play. Although I PREFER to play well! Joe Herzog |
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