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Professional Learning + Data = analysis student learning – Part 1
Algorithms by Kevin Dooley CC BY I am grappling with the direction of my professional growth and defining a SMART goal for the next academic year. The focus of course is Student Learning in Physed (and Wellness/Health). I have moved to the International School of Beijing (ISB) and as with any school, there are expectations of professional growth and the Middle School at ISB have decided to do this in two different ways. Firstly we are being asked to “develop a goal that shows growth in your ability to use data to provide a more personalized learning experience for your students” and secondly we are being asked to set a guiding…
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Communication – new idea to try
This past year Osama Abujafar has been kindly asking me to join a Voxer group that involves a number of PE teachers. I have been putting this off as I had limited time to investigate a new app or tech gizmo and felt that I had enough going on – but thanks for asking Osama! However, the PhysedSummit team asked that all presenters be involved in Voxer for important communication sharing. And now I have been involved in Voxer, I would like to advocate for how it is changing my work space. I am not a fan of App sharing just to get good at an app so I want to…
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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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#PhysEdSummit – Saturday 25th October
The PhysEdSummit is an online Google Hangout type conference designed to allow PE teachers to share with each other online over a specific set of topics. There are a number of different 1 hour sessions you can sign up to attend, and these are led by a specific person and mediated or facilitated by another to allow time for discussion but also to keep things moving along. The first time this is going to happen is this weekend! The schedule can be found here. I have been talking with Naomi Hartl (@misshartl) and Matt Pomeroy (@PhysEd_Pomeroy), two of the most generous and amazing PE teachers I have got to know,…