Progress

As I continue to work toward my game plan I am struggling in some certain areas. Assessment in Physical Education has always been a hard topic for educators. It is always the main topic of discussion when my colleagues and I meet. When you have rubrics made up in P.E. that is not the hard part to follow but it is the professional judgment piece that comes in. Because it is physical movement it is not as clear cut as other content areas. You have to have an extremely detailed rubric and then it is pretty much up to your professional judgement to decide whether is a student is advanced, proficient, basic or below basic. I would like some more imput or things from people on assessment in physical education. Health is probably the easiest thing to assess because students have a set amount they do. All of the other skills are very grey. Other than that my progress on my action plan are going according to plan I just need to be introduced to some more assessment options.

Resources for Game Plan

After looking at the things I need to address and work on when reviewing my game plan I thought about some resources that I am going to have to take a look at in order to be successful for my game plan. First of all I want to get better at Assessments within my curriculum. I think the best way to start that is to contact my teaching professionals, that would be other Physical Education teachers in my district and see how they assess within their classes and things we do that are similar and that are different and possibly make changes. Also, while asking my peers I want to see how they incorporate more technology within our curriculum in Physical Education without taking the physical activity part out of it. I believe it is extremely important to keep kids active and moving however, with our rapidly changing 21st century student. I feel it is important to keep my students interested in Physical Education with more technology being included in our curriculum. I can access more videos and media in order to show students how exactly some skills and activities should look but I would like some more types of technology within the actual movement piece of Physical Education when they are actually doing the activities.

Application 2: Designing my Game Plan

After looking at the ISTE website. I found a couple of indicators that I felt very comfortable with and a couple indicators that I feel I could drastically improve upon. The indicators I feel that I have a good grasp on are Facilitating and Inspiring Student Learning and Creativity. I believe I have a great environment in my gymnasium and the students are able to express themselves both athletically and individually. I also am very confident that I Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility. The three main rules not only in my Physical Education class but as well as our school is being Safe, Respectful and Responsible. Maintaining a safe and responsible environment in my P.E. class is one of the biggest things I take pride in.

My goals are to improve my game plan is to learn how to become better and learn to design and age level experiences and assessments. I have a good start provided by our district assessments on assessments however for the rest of my units I need to become better to provide more validity when doing my district assessments for more accurate data. To become better at this I am just going to continue to create data each and everyday in my class room to see what areas my students are distinguished at and what areas they need to improve upon and how my assessments can help clear up that grey area I sometimes struggle with.  My second goal is to become better at incorporating technology into my curriculum. I know in Physical Education we need to have our students move and be active because our society is becoming heavily dependent on technology and sitting around. However, in my field I need to create more technology opportunities that align and go with my physical education curriculum and the movement of students. This will benefit the students the most. Incorporating technology with physical activity will get our students extremely excited and more motivated to be physical active and live healthy lifestyles. I will then evaluate using checklists and rubrics on how much my students are improving in the skills we are learning as well as their overall understanding of health and being physically active. Focusing on these indicators will not only help me become a better educator but make my students more successful and get them excited and more motivated individuals.