PROMPTING ELEMENTARY ONTARIO HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS

Abstract

Scripted prompts offer educators an exemplar of what can be stated when addressing specific aspects of curricula. Written prompts are textual and introduce a means to influence, guide, and rouse the educator to conceive of the possibilities when teaching certain content. Prompts can be used when students are learning in classrooms while talking, writing, or showing their understanding in health and physical education. Ontario teachers can prompt students via questioning and in a Socratic manner move minds forward. Written prompts in the curriculum inform educators and impact pedagogy as the educator constructs plans and implements preplanned lessons and units. The author of these written prompts, the Ontario government, maintains that all prompts are not required hence the notion of option is implied.

Keywords: instruction, scripted curriculum, health, physical education.

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