• feedback,  Professional Development,  Teacher Reflection,  Uncategorized

    Checklists, Rubrics and more…. How might this look for a PE teacher?

    It has been a very unsettling year for me so far.  I have come from a place of feeling very secure in my own understanding of Physical Education and the Middle Year’s Program (MYP) with a evolution from teacher to presenter in this field.  I enjoy knowing that I have worked hard and tried a lot of new pedagogical model ideas out in my quest to really hone in on how students learn tactically in game play as well as delve more deeply into the social and emotional learning that we must be mindful of in our performance environment.   The focus should and always is about student learning in…

  • APPEC,  feedback,  Professional Development,  Research,  Teacher Reflection

    Mind the Gap – an analysis of where some things stand

    Mind the Gap by Pablofalv CC BY NC SA “Mind the Gap please.” When I lived in England and travelled on the underground train system, this recorded message came at each station – a warning that the train didn’t always meet the platform and to Mind the Gap as you stepped off the train or on to the train and to not fall or drop your bag through the gap created between the train and platform.  This ‘Gap’ is a reoccurring theme of the last few months as I am trying to work out  how best to analyse What is causing the student learning gaps and to determine How best to deal…