• Goal setting,  Professional Development,  Teacher Reflection

    Professional Learning + Data = analysis student learning – Part 2

    Last month I began the journey of discovery about Professional development for this academic year.  Part one in my reflecting is here.  I have taken more time to reflect on this and also chatted to Jarrod Robinson who gave me a very interesting book – Essentialism – which amongst a lot of the things that I am digesting has made me wonder What is/are the things that give the most impact to the work I am doing? What is Essential in this moment (and what can be trimmed away or left out)?  If the focus is Student Learning and I have specific outcomes, then they should be explicitly taught and…

  • PhysedSummit,  screencasting,  Teacher Reflection,  Technology in PE,  Uncategorized

    PhysEdSummit 5.0 – Putting the Feed-back into Feedback

    The physedagogy team have been hard at work and last weekend the PhysEdSummit 5.0 rolled out around the World.  This initiative aims to provide quality Professional Development to PhysEd teachers anywhere you can get wifi with free online sessions that allowed you to either actively be involved during a session (ask your questions, share your experiences or take polls or share resources etc) or to go back and watch the sessions and contact presenters via a variety of social media avenues.  The opportunity to get involved was very impressive and as we are scattered all over the place, the timezone changes meant that at any time, there was a good…