Entry 28

School Placement: Carlisle School

Cooperating Teacher: Mancino Craighead

Grade(s)/Subject(s) of Placement: 6-12 (Sports Medicine, AP Statistics, PE (6-12))

Date: 10/2/14

Summary of Today’s Activities:

Planning as usual, but I also had to supervise a few of my students making up my AP Statistics test.

PE - 5th period (long) The students entered into the gym and followed normal procedure - get dressed and waited on bleachers until instructions were given; I also noticed that I have another new student today. I had to abandon my Sports Education Model for this volleyball unit due to the fact of new students joining on a daily basis. The teams never could meet on a normal basis with the same group - so I had to compromise and start teaching the drills myself since I had so many "green" volleyball players. We practiced a few ball control drills but next week I'm really going to have to focus on serve receive - that is our true weakness at the moment. At the end, we played a mini game to 15 which definitely had its ups and downs. 

7th period - (middle school) The students entered into the gym and followed normal procedure - get dressed and waited on bleachers until instructions were given. Then the students went through their normal exercise routine. After the exercises were done, we performed a few volleyball ball controls dills then played Newcomb with even more volleyball rules today (rotating) 

Reflection about Today’s Activities:

During my 5th period PE (upper school), I had my first issue with a disrespectful student. This also happened to be one of my new students who just joined the class - so I was pretty surprised at the timing of his behavior. The student was wearing Beats headphones to class, and when I asked him to take them off he replied with "No." I asked him 3 more times, each time getting more stern and agitated. When I was about to call administration about the issue - he finally took them off. I was not happy with the way it went down. Luckily, he plays on a sports team (basketball) and I informed his coach of the issue. Later that afternoon, they had a mandatory meeting which I was informed that the whole team had to run timed suicides for that 1 particular players actions. At first, I felt a little guilty for the whole team running - but on the bright side, I won't have anymore issues out of that player! He later apologized to me for his actions, hopefully we are all on the same page now.