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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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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,…
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Virtual Running Race
Over the last year I have been motivated by my colleague and inspirational teacher, Simon Mills (SimonMills@unishanoi.org) to think more deeply about the way we move our students in class. Simon has been fortunate enough to attend many coaching courses run specifically for coaches and has run many of these himself, and he is very big on Games for Understanding and the various skills that come from these purpose built games. I have always believed that we owe our students as much physical time as we can, and it always irks me when my students are stuck finishing an assignment or going over the unit assessment and not moving…
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Collaboration
Earlier in our year we had a PD visit from Steve Barkley who is well known around the traps as a huge advocate for Peer Coaching and truly believes that this is the only way to move forward. I didn’t need to be convinced, I really do enjoy collaborative planning and teaching, so long as the people that I am working with are of a simliar mind set and are willing to work for the product/reward of the collaboration. I find that team teaching can be such a great learning curve and allows us the opportunity to be confronted with our own teaching fears but to also share great ideas…