Entry 46

School Placement: Carlisle School

Cooperating Teacher: Mancino Craighead

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

Date: 11/5/14

Summary of Today’s Activities:

Sports Medicine (2nd & 4th, long periods) - We are in the infancy of a new chapter - Preseason Conditioning & Prehabilitation; today's lesson focused on Strength Training Components: Overload, Specificity, Reversibility, and Individual Differences. When making my power point for this lesson, I tried to keep my students best interest in mind so I included a lot more pictures and relevant videos to help emphasize certain points. I also collected ALL cell phones at the door, which also had a huge impact on the successfulness of my class today! With no other choice but to pay attention, the students were actively engaged and I believe the lesson was very beneficial for all of my students today! A little reward for being effective students today = no homework!
AP Statistics (6th long) - Coming off a make-up day, it took a minute to organize my thoughts together for the lesson. However, after my flustered 2 minutes, I got under control and and delivered a strong, effective lesson on correlation. The last lesson focused on scatterplots, so it was easy to transition into correlation and interpretation with that in mind. We took a few notes, worked a few problems, and learned how to use the calculator for both scatterplots and correlation. At the end of class, I assigned homework problems and I'm feeling much better about their understanding at this point.
Middle PE (7th) - Monday/Thursday class: Dress Out/ Daily Exercises. Today I placed a variation on a popular dodgeball game and gave it the name Trenches. (PSA: we use foam balls as dodgeball, so it isn't a banned sport in PE at the moment). For this game, we propped up mats across the gym to be used as protection, but for only 3-5 seconds. The kids would hide behind the mats when needed, but also played a regular game of dodgeball at the same time. My students absolutely loved it!

Reflections of Today's Activities:

Taking up cell phones today was a spur of the moment decision, but a very rewarding one! When I left the school today, I felt very accomplished and like I can take on the world because I didn't have to fight the cell phone tendencies today! It takes me back to the days when I was a high school student (cell phone infancy days) and there weren't that many distractions! I'm going to explore to see what my options are for this, but I'm still floating on cloud 9 at the moment!