Entry 53

School Placement: Carlisle School

Cooperating Teacher: Mancino Craighead

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

Date: 11/14/14

Summary of Today’s Activities:

Sports Medicine (2nd & 4th. long periods) - Today was a special day for my sports medicine class - we finally got to put all of our days of note taking aside and do something with our learned knowledge! Because of the importance of stretching and warming up your body, I made my class do Yoga for the whole class period. I wanted them to associate the information on paper with what is actually happening in their bodies so they can have a better understanding. In order for my class to partake in this lesson plan, I had to turn my classroom into a yoga studio by stacking chairs and clearing the floor. The yoga video that we performed - P90X Yoga. I believe this was a beneficial lesson for everyone involved, at the end I made the students make the connection of isometric vs dynamic exercises and the physiological response to a "warm-up". Mission Accomplished!
AP Statistics (5th, long) - It seriously took me the entire class period to go over 3 problems (2 Homework, 1 classwork). However, it was necessary because I taught all calculator functions today for all of chapter 3 (Examining Relationships). The functions included: scatterplots, least square regression line, and residual plots. We also reviewed the interpretations for scatterplots, y hat = a + bx, correlation, residuals, and r-squared. At the end of class I gave them a worksheet that included all of the previously mentioned material.
Lunch Duty - Blah
Middle PE (7th) - Tuesday/Friday class: Dress Out/ Daily Exercises . Today has been such a good day and the rest of the day follows suit :) Mr. Craighead set up the game pindodge and we split up and played with the kids as well. "Cheating" was down since we played with them and the overall morale was up! Overall, very good day :)

Reflections of Today's Activities:

I had a very good day professionally - breaking up the content with hands on practice in sports medicine really helped the information to sink in. I also enjoyed the quite and calmness of the room - everyone left energized but relaxed at the same. Great day and looking forward to a great weekend - club volleyball tryouts Saturday and going to a Panthers game in Charlotte on Sunday!