• collaboration,  Criteria,  MYP,  pegeeks,  Student Reflection,  Teacher Reflection,  Technology in PE

    Collaboration, Blogs and Feedback

    October 21, 2012 /

    Dancing Troopers by Kalexanderson licensed by CC BY NC SA My G8 students are beginning their annual Dance unit.  This is usually met with not much enthusiasm.  I have to admit that my dancing shoes are not as polished or practiced as many other PE teachers, but over the last few years I have had the opportunity to work a little with Sara Quigley, a fabulous Dance teacher, and she and I have worked hard to put together a Dance unit about dissecting dance and then putting a Dance together with all its segments and joining bits and it has been more successful than other attempts…. This year I decided that…

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  • Criteria,  MYP,  pegeeks,  Technology in PE

    PE, Tech and the MYP

    October 3, 2012 /

    Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to Yokohama International School and meet up with Jarrod (aka @mrrobbo) and  a room full of keen and inspired PE teachers from all over the region.  We met under the hashtag #pegeeksyis and we went to talk about how we can really push forward with integrating technology and mobile apps into our classes.  Jarrod presented some fabulous new apps that have come out both apple, android and also web based, and I have summarised most of those in this document. What I came away with was the feeling that it was time to start documenting what we do as an MYP school. …

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