School Placement: Carlisle School
Cooperating Teacher: Mancino Craighead
Grade(s)/Subject(s) of Placement: 6-12 (Sports Medicine, AP Statistics, PE (6-12))
Date: 11/19/14
Summary of Today’s Activities:
Sports Medicine (2nd & 4th, long) - Another special lesson planned for today - Circuit Training. When the students came to class, I allowed them to go change into workout clothes. After they returned, I projected an Insanity Workout Video on the board - and we proceeded with the 10 minute warm-up. The video was an hour long all together, but since I had other work they needed to start I shortened our workout time to 30 minutes. When we finished up our workout, I held a class discussion about how this video related to cardiorespiratory conditioning and what defined circuit training. I was pleased to hear the very scientific answers as they related it to their physical condition while performing the exercises. The last part of class - assigned to different assignments so they could start work on it today and finish it up friday for grandparents day.
AP Statistics (6th, long) - As the students walked in - I handed them their "warm-up" to work on for about 15 minutes: FRAPPY #3. It was essentially a previous free response question used on an AP exam. While they were working on the FRAPPY - I used that time to check homework and meet with students individually who have been absent lately to catch them up. The next part of class, I allowed the students to meet with a partner to collaborate on their homework assignment from the night before (chapter review). Once they discussed their answers with each other, I projected the problem on the board and gave the solution sets. I also went over the FRAPPY answer before I did the chapter review-forgot to mention that before. I believe we are all ready for the summative assessment on Ch. 3 now!
No 7th PE today - Wednesdays tend to be my double-booked days. Another teacher covered my PE class while I met with my upper school Advisory group. Today was Grim Reaper day that CHILL sponsors to bring awareness to texting and driving. Within my advisory group, I held a discussion about the dangers and really tried to stress that it doesn't make it any safer just because you see your parents do it either - and backed myself up with research :)
Reflections of Today's Activities
Planning the same lesson plan for Sports Medicine doesn't always mean that each class will react the same to it. My 2nd period class is comprised mostly of freshman who are too scared to get in trouble so they tend to follow all directions given. My 4th period is a mixture of all types of students within the grades with various athletic abilities - but certainly a variety of personalities. My 4th period did not respond as well to the lesson as my 2nd period today. Instead of following directions and performing the workouts, I got a few students trying to dip out and then smarted off to me - I WAS NOT HAVING IT!! I had to stop during the warm-up and put the desks back together so they could do written work instead. It was to my understanding that they couldn't handle the "hands on" experience, but they still needed to know the material - so they were given a paper to write about the science behind progressive-resistive training. Hopefully, this will change a few behaviors in class - a few can ruin the entire experience for everyone. I'm not sure how politically correct this method is, but I tend to take my coaching habits to the classroom to make all students learn accountability and how to act in a group of people.
Planning the same lesson plan for Sports Medicine doesn't always mean that each class will react the same to it. My 2nd period class is comprised mostly of freshman who are too scared to get in trouble so they tend to follow all directions given. My 4th period is a mixture of all types of students within the grades with various athletic abilities - but certainly a variety of personalities. My 4th period did not respond as well to the lesson as my 2nd period today. Instead of following directions and performing the workouts, I got a few students trying to dip out and then smarted off to me - I WAS NOT HAVING IT!! I had to stop during the warm-up and put the desks back together so they could do written work instead. It was to my understanding that they couldn't handle the "hands on" experience, but they still needed to know the material - so they were given a paper to write about the science behind progressive-resistive training. Hopefully, this will change a few behaviors in class - a few can ruin the entire experience for everyone. I'm not sure how politically correct this method is, but I tend to take my coaching habits to the classroom to make all students learn accountability and how to act in a group of people.
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