School Placement: Carlisle School
Cooperating Teacher: Mancino Craighead
Grade(s)/Subject(s) of Placement: 6-12 (Sports Medicine, AP Statistics, PE (6-12))
Date: 11/17/14
Summary of Today’s Activities:
Normal Monday Schedule (Meet with every class for 45 min)
Sports Medicine (2nd & 4th, short) - The warm-up incorporated the use of our key words from the chapter and relating it to yoga (the lesson from Friday). Before we started with the lesson, I wanted the kids to gear in and lose all other outside distractions - so we started with a 1 minute "stay active" activity. Once time was up, I called on a few kids to talk about what they were feeling physically within their body (in plain terminology). This lead into our lesson of the day - Cardiorespiratory Conditioning, more specifically the benefits and physiological response in the body. The students took notes from a prepared Powerpoint and I also linked a few videos to help with reinforcement. My main goal was to show the students how creative you can be creating an exercise routine - gear it towards your interests and think outside of the box. I concluded class by preparing them for Wednesday's class - Circuit training!
PE (5th, short) - I decided that I was going to run all Monday's classes so I could still manage the class and keep them on track with the purpose of the unit. I'm trying to use my Monday as a source of modeling for the students who are trying to prepare their lesson. I started with the warm-up routine and immediately split them up by skill level in basketball for their first activity. Since today's lesson in basketball is focused on shooting - I had the group(s) participate in a few shooting competitions. We ended up doing this the whole class period, but with a small variation between each competition.
AP Statistics (6th, short) - I collected the homework I assigned over the weekend and began with a chapter review. Chapter 3 (Examining Relationships) was split up into 3 sections - so with 1 bivariate data collection, I was able to review the entire chapter using the different concepts we learned. We reviewed calculator functions along with interpretations of those numbers - it took us the entire short period to do the review. At the end of class, I assigned a homework problem for reinforcement of Chapter 3 before the summative assessment sneaks up on us and bites us in the rears!
Middle PE (7th) - Monday/Thursday class. Dress Out/Daily Exercises. The numbers were really down in this particular class for some reason - but over lunch one my upper school students from PE (a 9th grader) asked if he could practice leading the class with my middle school class. I admired the proactive approach, so I agreed to it but under strict guidelines concerning the safety of my middle school students. He ran a basketball lesson that he verbally communicated with me before the start of class. Overall, things ran smoothly and he demonstrated great class management (the part he was nervous about). However, 1 kid did get involved with an accident that required an e-mail to the parent (see discussion below).
Reflections of Today's Activities
It never seems to fail, every time I'm double-booked and have responsibilities outside of the gym or allow a student to practice "teaching" a class - a student gets injured! The smallest 6th grade boy received a pass from the biggest 7th grade girls which actually took him to the ground from the momentum of the pass. When he got up from the accident, he seemed visibly shaken but nothing alarming right away. As a few minutes passed, he was in a full on asthma attack. I took him to the secretary's office to calm him down with a few deep breathing activities. He stayed there the rest of the class period, but at the end of the day I had to speak with the middle division director about the incident. The next step was to e-mail the mom about what happened - which I did right after school. My 9th grade student was devastated about the event and was actually trying to take all responsibility (my same 9th grade student who was being really disrespectful at the beginning of the year). I had forgot about the incident until Tuesday morning when I checked my e-mail gaining reassurance from the mother that everything was fine and she appreciated the communication. The next thing that happened blew my mind - that same 9th grader came to my office first thing this morning to tell me he checked on the 6th grader this morning because he was concerned about his well-being. This 9th grade student has had a complete change of character in the past 2 months that almost brought a tear to my eye. His concern for that student was evidence to me that kids really can learn and be responsible citizens even though I don't always see it on the day-to-day stuff!
It never seems to fail, every time I'm double-booked and have responsibilities outside of the gym or allow a student to practice "teaching" a class - a student gets injured! The smallest 6th grade boy received a pass from the biggest 7th grade girls which actually took him to the ground from the momentum of the pass. When he got up from the accident, he seemed visibly shaken but nothing alarming right away. As a few minutes passed, he was in a full on asthma attack. I took him to the secretary's office to calm him down with a few deep breathing activities. He stayed there the rest of the class period, but at the end of the day I had to speak with the middle division director about the incident. The next step was to e-mail the mom about what happened - which I did right after school. My 9th grade student was devastated about the event and was actually trying to take all responsibility (my same 9th grade student who was being really disrespectful at the beginning of the year). I had forgot about the incident until Tuesday morning when I checked my e-mail gaining reassurance from the mother that everything was fine and she appreciated the communication. The next thing that happened blew my mind - that same 9th grader came to my office first thing this morning to tell me he checked on the 6th grader this morning because he was concerned about his well-being. This 9th grade student has had a complete change of character in the past 2 months that almost brought a tear to my eye. His concern for that student was evidence to me that kids really can learn and be responsible citizens even though I don't always see it on the day-to-day stuff!
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