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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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Speedgeeking at VTC2013
T as in Teaching Tech by Kalexanderson CC BY NC SA Speedgeeking Speedgeeking takes the idea of speed dating and blends it neatly with an Educational/Tech setting. The idea here is that in a large space, 7 presenters share their session 7 times (with a 20 second break between each) for 7 minutes. After each 7 minutes, the audience moves one space over to the new presenter. The audience then comes out with 7 new things that they can either learn more about or follow up on without having to sit through a whole hour on something that they weren’t really interested in. If you repeat this experience twice…
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VTC2013 at SSIS
Vietnam Tech Conference (#VTC2013) Presenting by Alice Bartlett CC BY NC The first annual Vietnam Tech Conference (VTC2013) kicked off on Saturday 3rd March at Saigon South Int’l School (SSIS). There are a host of great schools here with the idea that we can learn from each other. The weekend schedule was pretty loose with workshops/presentations running on the Saturday and then some unconference work for Sunday including Speedgeeking and an Unconference session based on interest from the participants and organisers. Schedule and blog of the Conference. Here are some notes from the sessions that I was lucky enough to participate in: Open Source Software by Urko Masse (SSIS) There…
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Health assessment
Eat five fruits or vegetables a day by Stefan licensed by CC NC SA So, this year our PE department will drop two of our school-used/developed Criterion and focus on one only [1. We have decided to do this as we don’t teach enough lessons/unit to make it worth having a summative test or assignment. Some units align very nicely with other PE units – like Fitness – and so we have decided to use the Criteria A (MYP) Use of Knowledge rather than a school-only criteria.]. This criterion has to do with social skills/interaction in the classroom and communication. The question we are trying to answer is how do…