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Professional Growth 2018-19
Question Finger 1 by Josh Tasman This year I have found it very challenging to find a focus area for goal setting – a collection of data – conversations for growth and/or reflection and to make a meaningful change based on this focus point. I feel I have not been unproductive, but as the deadline to ‘show’ something looms, I am still not sure what singular thing I will talk about in my end-of-year discussion with my Principal. As I ponder why this may be the case, I think back conversations I have had with others about purposeful professional growth. This blog post from @imsporticus (Kicking over the Ladder) resonated very heavily…
- APPEC, feedback, Goal setting, PE mission statement, Professional Development, Teacher Reflection, Twitter, Voxer
Core Values, Advocation, Professional Growth, Networks and Literacy. A call to action.
Sunset at Yaquina Head by Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington CC BY What do you stand for? How are you core values visible to your student/ department/ community? Are you delivering on the mandate of QPE? What makes you say that? This past weekend I was humbled to give one of the Keynotes at the Asia-Pacific PE conference in Hong Kong. This is the third annual conference hosted at HK International School and saw a lot of Educator’s from Asia, Australia and also now from the USA and UK in attendance. The last few months I have really been delving into who I am and what I stand…
- Blog, feedback, Goal setting, peer coaching, Professional Development, standards based grading, Teacher Reflection, Twitter, Voxer
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…
- Blog, collaboration, feedback, peer coaching, Professional Development, Teacher Reflection, Twitter, Voxer
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 –…
- collaboration, pegeeks, Professional Development, Teacher Reflection, Technology in PE, Twitter, Voxer
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…