Extracurricular Activities In Teaching-Coaching By Alexander S. Frazier

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Teaching is much more than just work inside of a classroom; it is our job as a teacher to get to know our students, on a personal level, inside and out of school. An excellent way to perform this task is through extracurricular activities within the school corporation. Throughout this expectation, I will demonstrate how my knowledge, and participation, in extracurricular activities has bettered my student relationships, and thus bettered my teaching. Offered as my first piece of evidence, Teaching-Coaching, by Alexander S. Frazier, is an excerpt from an article I read. This article has helped me realize and practice how coaching and teaching enhance one another in more ways than just student relationships. One key way they enhance each other is through effective communication. Frazier states that whether one is teaching, lecturing, or giving a halftime pep talk, it is crucial to effectively communicate with the …show more content…

I have attached a few pictures from a musical, basketball game, and a youth camp I have attended to show a few of the experiences I have been able to capture. Throughout these, and many more extracurricular events I have attended, I have met several different students from many different social groups, and got to see what they are interested in first hand. There is a very shy girl in my class who loves to act and sign, but I was not aware of this. After seeing her in the musical Grease I was finally able to hold a relational conversation with her. Breaking the ice with her interests has led to her being more vocal with me in class. She is now asking me about future musicals and show choir events that are happening soon, and is even willing to participate aloud more in class. This is a perfect example of how just showing up to an event can help connect to that one hard to reach student in

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