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Track and Field Ramblings – New Age of PE and T&F days!
InfraRed Running Sculpture by Vincent_AF CC BY NC My friend @doug_gleddie and I recently had a wee Twitter flurry focused on alternate track and field events/days. After our short exchange of ideas, we decided to collaborate on this blog post to highlight our perspectives and thoughts. Take a read, tell us what you think and, most importantly, please contribute to the google doc we have started to share your ideas as well (link at the end of the article)! Doug’s Ramblings! I started teaching PE at a school that followed a very traditional program and T&F was run as a school wide meet. When I took over as the male…
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Using autoCrat to create Summative Grades for students – magic!
I love that PE and Technology are coming together, there is such a great host of Google scripts that can enhance our feedback to students and parents. I believe that if I am assessing and recording it (iPad using Google Drive) then the students really should get to see it and understand what I am doing and so how they are doing/did. Inspired by @PENathan‘s Nathan Horne and his sharing of how to use Google Spreadsheets and Conditional Formatting, I have decided to run a little tutorial on how I use @astillman’s autoCrat script to mass produce individual student summative assessment pdf’s for sharing with students and parents, from Google Spreadsheets.…
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Who appraises or offers you Feedback?
Two Faced Justice by Johnson Cameraface CC BY NC SA The dreaded word around the MYP PE faculty and classroom is ‘reflection’. Do we have to do another one – really? It seems you can tell when the end of a reporting period is up as the students are madly reflecting on everything they have learned and teachers roll their eyes in solidarity – reflection time again – please spare us. I read Jen Hatmaker’s blog post on being the Worst End of School Mom Ever and took some of this away as I thought about how I end each of my units and how I watch the slog over reflections,…