Pilot ISB PD
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Challenge – final reflection
This year, my professional goal has stemmed around trying to unpack the Challenge for my students in my learning opportunities and to consider whether I am challenging all of my students as they start wherever they are and (hopefully) move forward along a continuum of learning that is relevant to them and includes Movement Competence and Social Interaction. I have not set up my year with very robust scientific research… I have used surveys from Tripod to measure where I was initially (through the eyes of my students) and also in May 2019 to see if there was any growth. I shared the results of the survey with my students…
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Professional Growth 2018-19 Part 3 – Challenge in PE
What does it mean to Challenge yourself as a student in your PE classes? What are we asking of our students? How are we offering a safe place for them to be challenged? How are we arming students with grit and resilience and the ability to push beyond a comfort zone to test themselves in a relevant way in our classes? Twitter regularly has threads of people who really did not enjoy their PE (or are not enjoying PE) and as I scroll down and read I am constantly disheartened by what I read. How truly awful to have had a teacher who could create lifelong aversion to movement. Or…
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Professional Growth – articulating what makes activity Meaningful – conversations w Ss
Three Wise Monkeys by Victor Wong CC BY NC SA This year I am on a quest around deriving Meaning from PE and using the pillars of Meaningful PE as posed by… Kretchmar, Tim Fletcher, Beni from LAMPE. I read Justen O’Connor’s blog post around Exploring Meaningful Movement in Physical Education and I loved the activity that he has shared that came from a recent article also from O’Connor. What? The idea in this task is that we are trying to help our students to draw a rich vocabulary when they think, describe and share the meaning that they are drawing from a previous Physical Activity. This vocabulary draws on the…
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Challenges ahead – Professional Learning- Goal Setting
Meaningful PE has become an area of focus for me this year. I feel that as a more experienced PE teacher that I have an opportunity to now delve into thinking and creating learning intentions that are about offering students the chance to make Movement meaningful beyond doing for assessment or just for doing’s sake. I have been yo-yo-ing backward and forward around the idea of how to be more Meaningful in PE and how to make experiences in PE more meaningful. Recently a class of my MS students completed a Tripod 7C’s survey about me and their experiences in my PE class. I waited with anticipation for the results. I…
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Professional Growth 2018-19 Part 1 – The Pilot and Standards
The Three Rocks by alfonso maseda varela CC BY NC SA A new year and new ideas. Daniel Pink in his book When, writes about the power of beginnings and endings – and a new school year brings about a whole assortment of possibilities wiped clean from the end of the previous academic year. Last year I was involved in discussing a new way to grow Professionally at ISB and this year am part of the pilot group that will try out our recommended approach and give feedback about the process, but also (hopefully) grow as a professional in my own learning in a more authentic way. “Effective professional development…