TGfU
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Monkey on my back
Snow Monkeys 16 by P.Fabian CC BY SA NC For many months now I have been mulling over some ideas that sit poorly with me. I feel like I am a bit of a fraud but to be honest but I think I am a little hard on myself as a teacher. I am at a cross-roads and need to address the monkey on my back. At APPEC I had the opportunity to go to a few different workshops or listen to key notes and I feel that through these I can better articulate what has been making me feel uncomfortable but allowed me to articulate this better for myself.…
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APPEC – TGfU and Visible Thinking Routines
November 15-16th the first Asia Pacific Physical Education Conference will take place in Hong Kong at the HKIS campus. There is a lot of buzz around this conference and I am looking forward to going and meeting up with a lot of #Physed people that I have been working alongside online (through Twitter) but now get the chance to meet in person and learn with and from. I am presenting on two different workshops – the first is on Teaching Games for Understanding and the use of Visible Thinking Routines as a part of determining what students think as they go through our work as teachers. I have been…
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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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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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#ACHPER15
motion gears team force by Ralph Bijker CC BY The annual conference for ACHPER15 was held in Adelaide, Australia this year in April. I made the trip to this conference for a variety of reasons, in no particular order: Rick Baldock and Shane Pill would be there and I learning a lot through my interactions with them online I wanted to present some of the work I have been doing and see how it resonated with other professionals in my field I was very excited to learn about best practice from the presenters and key note speakers to meet some of my twitter PLN in person and keep talking about…
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Teaching Games for Understanding & Visible Thinking Routines for #ACHPER15
Sports by David Pickett CC BY NC SA This post shares the notes and links to resources from my ACHPER Teaching Games for Understanding and Visible Thinking Routines Workshop. I presented this in Adelaide on Tuesday 14th April, 2015. I created this Google Presentation but didn’t present it, but rather went through all of the notes listed here, but it is intended as my workshop plan and to give others a chance to consolidate the activities that we completed. Other resources can be found here: TGfU – Invasion Games Progression Questions Coaching Question Starters Routine Learning Questions – resources from Mark Church and Pam Harper Invasion Claim/Support/Question Routine example #1…