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Professional Learning – Part 6 – Putting myself on the line
ISB MS Professional Development – Peer Observation Task 2016-17 This year our MS Admin challenged us to invite a colleague to observe a lesson via video of our lesson and sharing. You can read the overview of this process above. As a new teacher in this school, this is a bit of a big ask. I have blogged a lot about my Professional Development work this year and you can go back and read up about Data and how I am trying to use this in my student learning. If you team teach then the opportunity to challenge each other and push and to share your observations is very powerful…
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Professional Development – Part 7 – Notices /Wonderings
Mel Hamada in G8 Badminton Class at ISB This week I have been watching and thinking about my teaching practice. I have blogged about this a lot already but you can read the last blog post here that explains what I am currently doing. I will say that I was very nervous about what I would see watching these videos. I always find my voice the most interesting – do I really sound like that? But once my nervousness and feeling of worry were over, it was interesting to watch the lesson from the camera lens perspective, rather than from what I see while teaching. It was so powerful to…
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Um, a little help please….Super social media team to the rescue!
Initial sharing on Twitter and Voxer of the issue I was facing in my G6 Soccer/ Football/ Invasion class. Last week after a stellar Shape Boston conference week, I had a problem. I had changed to looking at Invasion with one of my G6 classes and specifically a soccer focus lesson. This amazing group of students had really been working hard with focus on Empathy and Integrity and I couldn’t believe it when a group of boys playing a specific Teaching Games for Understanding style game blew out with some physical pushing and then shouting between several of the boys. We had made our lesson objectives explicit –…
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Shape Boston – A Close Encounter…
The Beautiful Eclipse by Stefans02 CC BY The World is enormous. Every-time I look longingly for the next holiday period and start thinking about possibly destinations, I am reminded of how big our amazing world is and that I will not have the time or money to see most of it. But with technology, I can still keep up with friends and family from all over our glorious globe and that is something I am truly thankful for. Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the Shape America National conference in Boston, and I have blogged about some of my theme takeaways here. However, my biggest take away has…
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PhysEdsummit 3.0 – A wrap!
Title Slide from our Presentation (CC BY NC SA Mel Hamada) The PhysEdsummit 3.0 has been running for 12 hours and this morning (10am Japan time) Mark Williams and I were very fortunate to share our session on Inquiry, Teaching Games for Understanding and Physed. If you didn’t get the chance to see it, you can find all in the information linked here. I want to share that I do not believe that I am an expert in this area. The ideas here are not ones that Mark and I have created, we are advocates of this model of teaching and we have taken the time to research, read…
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PhysEdSummit #1 – It’s a Wrap
Last weekend ago I was so excited to be a part of the PhysEdSummit which was hosted as a series of Google Hangouts late into my Japanese night (breakfast time for USA #Physed folk) by the very amazing Physedagogy team. If you didn’t tune in, don’t panic! You can catch up on the program here and if you want to see my Google Presentation without the Google Hangout session narration, you can see them here. I am planning to do some more PD and watching over the next month. I wanted to share that the progress being made in PE is a great step for those in the profession…
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SEPEP – reflection on G10 unit – Part 2
Community by Ian Sane CC BY After some feedback and questions, I wanted to update with some more sharing on our HS Student run SEPEP unit. Dr Ash Casey (@DrAshCasey) asked me after my initial reflection on SEPEP about the focus of our unit – clearly not a skills focus. The PE Dept at YIS is a little unique, our focus is multi-faceted but in every unit we are looking at student engagement and team building as much as we are skill progression and drills. Our goal at the moment is to look at our vertical alignment of the strands we teach (eg. invasion games, net games) and see if…
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G7 iPad trial – #physed contributions
G7 students have been trialling the use of iPad mini’s for the last few weeks of school. This has enabled them (and the PE teachers) to use 1:1 mobile technology as a class in our PE classes – a big step forward! We have started off with Coach’s Eye. Coach’s Eye is not just for sports use – it can be used anywhere you would like to film something and allow for feedback, analysis, comparison or screencasting to assist in learning. We decided to use this tool in our assessment of G7 student’s throwing technique in our striking and fielding unit. We have spent considerable time looking at the important aspects…