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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…
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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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What is physical literacy and how is this affecting my curriculum thinking?
Surfing Jedi by Pedro Vezini CC BY NC SA As I enjoy doing, a fabulous conversation emerged on twitter the other day between a group of us in the South East Asia/Australian region. The start of the conversation was an ongoing chat we’ve been having about looking closely at what we do with our ELC or ECC or Early Childhood aged PE students and what colleagues are doing in their classrooms. The focus has been looking at a Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) and I was learning a little from others in this field who are implementing programs to support students and working with professionals outside of teaching to help set up…
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Sportfolios – student driven using Google Drive apps.
Sportfolios are a PE version of a student portfolio. They enable students to take their work with them from PE which has always been somewhat tricky. Andy Vasily shares that they are about sharing work: student, peer, teacher and after seeing some in action, I have decided to invest some research into Sportfolios to see what they are about. I have some initial reservations and also some positive ideas in ways which they could and may work with my students this year. I am concerned about how much we can load on our students. I was in Australia for the July break and had a chance to go through my…
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PEPLC begins
Twitter is amazing PD and any PE teacher interested in jumping into the revolution that is taking place would be greatly adding to an incredibly diverse and rich opportunity. Other subject area teachers have mentioned that they are blown away at the PE discussions and great World-wide sharing that takes place daily and are jealous of the way that PE is leading as an example, join to watch and read and then splash out and start sharing! PEPLC or PE Professional Learning Community has been set up by Andy Vasily and Nathan Horne and is supported by a committee of other great PE people: has come out of other PD…