My PE Classroom

This project encourages students to dive a little bit into another culture and asks students to examine sports across the globe. Students will research native sports to different countries and which are the most popular. The main goal is that students will learn about different countries and their native cultural expression through sports. Students will work in groups to learn about the sport and also research a bit about the country and its culture around sports. They will talk about and explain the native sport, the approach to sports in general in that country, and what is most popular there. I think this is a great way to open students up to other cultures using something familiar and comfortable like sports. The project is targeted towards 5th graders at PE. The project delivery is open and creativity is be encouraged. Students can film a video, make a powerpoint, perform, demonstrate, use visuals and notecards, etc. The project must have visual aids incorporated. The ...

When it comes to using formative assessments at PE, I find myself most often using them to assess myself as a teacher. I like to have the mentality that if my students are struggling with the material, that means that I should reflect on ways to improve my ability to teach the material or examine the assessments. I like to use assessments to address concepts and strategies for our units at PE and even sportsmanship ideals. Some assessment that I have used at PE are Exit Tickets, True/False Cards, Multiple Choice Quizzes, Think/Pair/Share, and various team work activities like Demonstrations and Whiteboard Activities. At PE, we don't have a lot of time and I try and find assessments that are quick and to the point to give me the most information in the shortest amount of time. Assessment is very important to the function of our class, so even if we don't have as much time, we have to use them effectively. Based on these assessments, I can decide how to proceed with future le...

Roller Coaster Physics I believe this teacher holds very high academic performance expectations for her students. She uses a strategy called chiming where one person is chosen as the representative from each group. This shows me that she has high expectations of every single students and expects that any one of them could be the chimer. Other ways I have noticed that she has high expectations are giving each student their own job, putting many constraints on the project, and requiring them to use a lot of detail and proper vocabulary when describing their project. In general, she is challenging each student to improve and be successful by setting her expectations very high, and giving them above and beyond the amount of tools needed to do so. I think behavior expectations are also very high in her class. Students have an expectation for daily participation and must be an active group member. Students in the class are responsible for acting as an engineer which puts them in diffe...

In my PE classroom, positive reinforcement is my main and key management tool. I use it as students walk in and get right on task, when students follow command cues, during and after game play, and at any point when I am giving directions or someone is following set classroom procedures. I almost always have an instant activity for my students everyday, like a warm up or partner activity. I give the instruction verbally or post it on a white board for students to read as they head into class. Once students enter, the minute I see students on task, I start throwing out clear and specific positive reinforcement. I have a rule of three minimum positive reinforcement interactions, but I like to acknowledge as many students as possible before we have to move on. I make this one of my main focuses because it serves so many purposes. My classroom has a much more positive tone, I am setting clear expectations of behavior, and students can look to others for an example. This kind of positive r...