Description of the Learning Unit

Description:

This course is based on the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) model. This lesson provides practical ideas on how to implement and evaluate a TPSR-based sport lesson.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn to implement and evaluate a TPSR-based physical activity lesson.

Keywords:

• empowerment-based leadership
• self-development
• transfer of life skills

How to follow this learning unit?

• Read the learning materials of this topic by clicking open the title banners.
• At the end of the sections, assess your understanding with a quiz or an exercise.

Background reading materials:

• Hellison, D. (2011). Teaching personal and social responsibility through physical activity (3^rd ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
• Martinek, T. & Hellison, D. (2016). Teaching personal and social responsibility: Past, present, and future. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 87(5), 9-13. doi: 10.1080/07303084.2016.1157382
• Hanna-Mari Toivonen, Paul M. Wright, Mary Hassandra, Martin S. Hagger, Nelli Hankonen, Mirja Hirvensalo, Markus Talvio, Daniel Gould, Sami Kalaja, Tuija Tammelin, Kaarlo Laine & Taru Lintunen (2019): Training programme for novice physical activity instructors using Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) model: A programme development and protocol, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/1612197X.2019.1661268

Implementing the lesson plan

1. Stick to the plan!

• Be flexible and listen to the children but follow the plan you have created to ensure systematic integration of the TPSR model.
• Focus on the chosen life skill(s), not everything that comes up.
• Keep a written version of the plan or the main points as a reminder with you during the lesson.

2. Remember!

Relationships

• Put effort on getting to know the children and building positive relationships with each child.
• Recognise the children’s strengths and needs and focus on them.

Responsibilities

• Keep in mind the leader’s responsibilities.
• Introduce the children’s responsibilities (i.e. responsibility levels) to the children. It helps them to understand that:
  • taking responsibility is something that they can learn and improve on.
  • there is personal (levels 2 and 3) and social (levels 1 and 4) responsibility.

Life skills

• Embed chosen teachable pieces of life skill(s) into physical activity..
• Introduce the concept of life skills to the children through examples.

Lesson format

• Follow the lesson format.
  • Have a set beginning and ending for the lesson.
    • Spend time to discuss about and reflect on the life skill(s) during the lesson.
    • Provide opportunities for the children to evaluate the group and themselves during the lesson.
    • Address the concept of transfer during the lesson.
• Explain the lesson format to the children. It helps them to understand that
  • there is a routine that will be followed.
  • discussion is necessary for learning but majority of the lesson is physical activity.

The teaching strategies

• Remember to use the responsibility-based teaching strategies you had planned to use.

3. Be transparent!

• Always openly share and explain what you are doing and why and what is practiced and why.

4. Be realistic!

• Remember that learning responsibility and changing behaviour takes time and effort.
• Stay patient and positive!

5. Notice and acknowledge the improvement!

• Are the children:
  • Participating?
  • Engaging?
  • Showing respect?
  • Cooperating?
  • Encouraging others?
  • Helping others?
  • Leading?
  • Expressing voice?
  • Making decisions?
  • Asking for help?
• Celebrate even small improvements in the children’s responsibility.

1. Evaluate your teaching

After a TPSR-based physical activity lesson:

• Review your lesson plan and write down:
  • What worked/did not work? What needs to be changed and what kept as it is?How well did you follow your plan? Did you change something? Why?
  • What did you forget?
  • What was difficult/easy?
  • What do you need to practice more?
  • Anything else?
• Fill out:
  • the TPSR implementation checklist
  • the Tool for Assessing Responsibility-based Education (TARE) post-teaching reflection sheet

2. Set goals for yourself

• Think and write down:
  • What are your strengths/weaknesses in teaching/using the TPSR model?
  • What are your goals?
  • What do you need to do to reach your goals?
  • What factors might prevent you from reaching your goals?
  • How will you know that you have/have not reached your goals?
  • When will you evaluate and if needed modify your goals?
  • What is your next step?

Exercise: Implementing and evaluating a TPSR-based physical activity lesson

• Implement a TPSR-based physical activity lesson that you have planned.
• Once you have implemented the lesson, evaluate it and set new goals for yourself.

To INTRODUCTION OF THE TPSR MODEL

To PREPARING A TPSR-BASED SPORT LESSON