Student Reflection
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Goal Setting and Reflecting w Students – new idea
I ask my students to set Goals frequently. I often feel that this very important concept is greatly under used and not always used well in our PE classes. Often we ask students to reflect on their work at the completion of a unit and ask them to set goals for the next unit or next time they have this particular unit and this can be difficult when most people find planning a few days in advance very challenging. How do you grade or comment on this goal setting? I have moved away from Goal setting as a long term exercise and moved more toward setting goals that will be…
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Sportfolios – student driven using Google Drive apps.
Sportfolios are a PE version of a student portfolio. They enable students to take their work with them from PE which has always been somewhat tricky. Andy Vasily shares that they are about sharing work: student, peer, teacher and after seeing some in action, I have decided to invest some research into Sportfolios to see what they are about. I have some initial reservations and also some positive ideas in ways which they could and may work with my students this year. I am concerned about how much we can load on our students. I was in Australia for the July break and had a chance to go through my…
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Burst Mode – T&F Day review
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 a clear plan of use for the day, which apps and how to really use them, as some settings were more effective for different events. I used my iPod 5 and I didn’t have internet access on our field, so no real time sharing happened. But I did share images with some students on the…
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Giving Feedback on a Presentation
Speech bubble by Alice Bartlett CC BY NC How do you evaluate your Presentations? I have struggled with finding meaning from student presentations especially if they aren’t very good. How do you face public humiliation in the moment of knowing that what you presented was not up to par? And why should this process of giving feedback only be up to the teacher? I have worked with index cards, asking students to confer with peers and just asking for verbal feedback but often this becomes teacher directed and students choose very trivial focus points (eg. “They had good slides”) and it can be hard to bring out meaning to the…
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Collaboration, Blogs and Feedback
Dancing Troopers by Kalexanderson licensed by CC BY NC SA My G8 students are beginning their annual Dance unit. This is usually met with not much enthusiasm. I have to admit that my dancing shoes are not as polished or practiced as many other PE teachers, but over the last few years I have had the opportunity to work a little with Sara Quigley, a fabulous Dance teacher, and she and I have worked hard to put together a Dance unit about dissecting dance and then putting a Dance together with all its segments and joining bits and it has been more successful than other attempts…. This year I decided that…
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Student Reflections
UNIS Hanoi is an MYP school and in the PE department we work to assess students under four criterion: Criteria A: Knowledge and Understanding Criteria B:Movement Composition Criteria C: Performance Criteria D: Personal Engagement These criteria are set by the IBO and we modify them so that they are task specific for each unit/grade that we teach. The one that gives our department the most anxst is Criteria D. There are four strands within the criteria, and we are supposed to have assessed our students on all 4 by the time they leave G10 but this requires scope and sequence to ensure that students will be successful in all 4. They are:…
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Google documents
I have always been a big fan of google docs, but am finding that I am using them more and more to collect data and assessment from students in PE. I have tried a few different things this year to see how I could improve my student reflections, this is something that I am quite passionate about – I feel that we don’t have the right set up at our school, and that it is too easy to ask students to give you nothing important in a handful (or copious) number of words. Anyway, I digress – Google docs has been a wonderful way to allow me to collect student…
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Screen casting
I have been interested in screencasting and using what screen casts offer for a while but this year really decided that I would try and use them for a variety of analysis and flip-class room projects and then have used socrative to try and gather really anonymous feedback from students about whether they are using them. I tried screenr to begin with and have found this program to be mostly reliable and very easy to use. If you create an account it helps as you can then keep all your screencasts together allowing students to return to your stream multiple times. I have also used screencastomatic which has more mouse…