Field Blog 3

In our last group observation we visited Orange High School and this visit was more specific to what I really want to do with my teacher career. It was exactly what I want to do with my educational career with being an physical education teacher in high school. This was the first time I had been in a gym class since my freshman year of high school so it had been sometime since my last one. Our teacher, Mr. Shanghal, was terrific! He was very interactive with the kids, he made it a lot of fun for the kids and you could tell they were having a good time because you could see the joy on there face. The good part about this PE class was that the school gave Mr. Shanghal the freedom to run it how he wanted so as he explained the numerous different activities he had to choose from on a day to day basis he constantly would remind us of how he would meet the state requirement but then he would put his own spin on things. He invited me to join him to one of his workshops that he puts on for Physical education teachers and he even gave me a few lesson plans that he had put together if we ever needed to use them. Since the school was so pleased with how the PE program has gotten over the past years it was like almost whatever Mr. Shanghal needed or wanted for his class that they provided him with. Sometimes you might see some schools not get as involved in Physical Education but since they have gave the entire curriculum to M. Shanghal and saw what he has done with it, it has done nothing but pleased the school. Also I thought it was good that some days after school that the teachers would actually go though a PE class. This trip to the high school really made me feel good about my decision to want to teach in a high school environment and also to teach PE.