My school recently held two Track and Field days – one for Middle and one for High school. As a tech type person I decided to trial some apps for sharing technique but more to capture some flavor of the events over the day. I found that it would have been more useful to have… More »
Dancing Troopers by Kalexanderson CC BY NC SA I have mentioned on twitter about using technology in my Gymnastics and Dance classes and thought I would delve a little deeper into this in a blog post. Last year I began my Gymnastics unit with Grade 7 students. This unit really focuses around Floor routines… More »
We are having some great discussions at school at the moment around assessment. It seems that our students are overwhelmed by summative assessment and to be honest so am I. I have been trialing playing with more formative assessment this year and it is going well, but it still adds up to more marking and… More »
Last year I worked with Simon Mills to design a Badminton unit and after much debate and discussion, we decided to go with a very different approach to our unit. We had both worked in Japan and we had watched Japanese students working in PE using so much skill repetition to master skills rather than… More »
One Click or two by Kaptain Kobold licensed by CC BY NC SA How much work in a unit is too much? I would be the first to say it is likely that I am guilty of trying to do too much in a PE unit, but is it too much? How do you… More »
Eat five fruits or vegetables a day by Stefan licensed by CC NC SA So, this year our PE department will drop two of our school-used/developed Criterion and focus on one only 1. This criterion has to do with social skills/interaction in the classroom and communication. The question we are trying to answer is how… More »
Els retocs finals// The Final Touch by licensed by Oryctes CC BY SA NC Formative assessment is forefront on my mind this year. Last year I was continually ebbing through a large amount of summative assessment which really made my life difficult and stressful and I think culminated in some of the hip and back… More »
