MYP
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DataWise Course – Trying to make sense of where to begin
Data (scrabble) by Justgrimes CC BY SA This year I have been focused on some driving questions that are driven by the MS leadership team at my new school. I have blogged a lot about this already. One area that has been a focus for me is about data that I collect on my students. Data collection for Physical Education can be arduous. What kind of data should I be collecting and how will I use this to guide student learning? I have been experimenting here with some professional feedback loops to enable me to see if my formative feedback is accurate (am I talking to students about skills…
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Thoughtful Strategy can lead to Success.
Eyes on the Prize by Alan CC BY NC SA Thoughtful strategy can lead to success. In PE our team has been working hard to develop Key Concepts of study that could be used in any context – not just PE. This has lead to some healthy conversation with our PE Team about the lifelong learning we want students to take from our subject and apply to other aspects of their lives and in our Net Games units we look at Strategy through the Key concept of how to plan for performance and collaborate effectively with others to do this. Students have been working in designated teams of 3 (that I…
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Invasion Games – Designing a Game
Koi by David CC BY NC Simplicity really is key to a unit that runs smoothly and I continue to aspire to be able to keep things simple to eliminate the stress that I feel when I can see the end of a unit coming towards us (date is fixed) and I haven’t finished yet. I haven’t yet found all of the right pieces but I do feel that with this unit I have got close to the desired goals that I set myself in delivering the unit: to keep things simple – reduce written tasks, reduce homework for the students and for myself connection – to connect learning to real…
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Articulating a #Physed curriculum ELC – G12
School Architecture, 1921 by Learn From. Build More. CC BY SA This Monday is one of our first in-school Professional Development days and within this day there is a block of time for Heads of Dept (HoD) to run PD with their Dept. A quick poll and Start of year discussion with my team indicated that we needed to take time to continue the Articulation of our YIS PE curriculum and Monday seems the perfect opportunity to apply 2 hours of time to developing this plan. Yokohama International School has a very unique problem for an International School – it has very limited space. A lot of the sorts of…
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Training – Running and Fitness
This week I have caught up on Jarrod Robinson’s (aka The PE Geek) podcasts and it has been a little while so I had many episodes to choose from as I have picked up my training this last 10 days so more time to listen to ideas and see what appeals in my current thinking and planning of units. If you don’t listen to the podcasts, think about adding them as a resource of about 20mins/ fortnight to your calendar. I am in the midst of cramming my brain full of Training Principles and ideas for my Grade 10 unit. I want to have them leaving the unit considering How…
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Connecting my student’s learning
SOLO Taxonomy – Jo Bailey @LovePhyEd It has been a busy few weeks and today as I sat down to write out my new Grade 9 Community/Invasion Games Unit I found myself with some real questions about where things are heading for me as a Physed teacher. Last weekend was the PhysedSummit and I had been really excited by a few of the different presentations, but one that resonated with me was Jo Bailey’s on SOLO taxonomy – if you haven’t watched it, you can see it here. Jo (and other’s) use rubrics that are very simply written to show the hierarchical progression of learning to enable students to…
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Communities, Interaction and Problem Solving
Gif from YouTube clip of Tag Rugby Mixed Super League Round 5 (Autumn 2014) – The Tuggas v Hippos Global Context: Identities & Relationships Key Concept: Communities Related Concept: Interaction Statement of Inquiry: Group problems are often not ‘stand alone’ issues but rather a complex interaction of multiple facets that require the community to interact with each other in order to solve them. Assessment – Crit A, C, D Year 5/Grade 10 Sport/Focus – Invasion Games – Turbo Touch and Touch Rugby This year the focus for our Grade 10/Year 5 MYP students has been Leadership and they have worked very hard on planning and sharing their own workshops (mini workshops to…
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Movement Composition – Kung Fu fighting….
Kung Fu Fighting from Just Dance on YouTube – an awesome warm up for your kids! Where did this year go? It is already time to begin the final units in PHE and I am excited to get into this Movement Comp unit with my Grade 8’s. The focus for me is on doing less and having time for more content and I am going to do my best to stick to this plan. The Key Concept for me here is Creativity – I read Dominique Dalais’s most recent blog post on his Martial Arts unit and I spoke with my colleague, Asako Clark about how she set up a…