Deirdre Bailey ~ Physical Educationhttps://twitter.com/deirdrebailey This important information bulletin provides details on our new term 1 report card assessments in physical education at CSS. As we hope many parents are aware, this year has provided us with the opportunity to re-think our approach to inquiry-based physical education (see Connect! blog post) as well as our approach… Continue reading Inquiry, Assessment and Term 1 Video Report Cards in Physical Education
Jenna Callaghan and Deirdre Bailey Deirdre Working with a student teacher these past few months has been an exciting and rewarding experience. From our first meeting, it was evident that Jenna and I shared a similar pedagogical philosophy; with a strong focus on reflection and discipline-based inquiry. Jenna’s early ideas and questions were guided by… Continue reading Student Teaching: Mentorship and Collaboration – A Video Reflection
-by Dean Schmeichel, Phys. Ed Teacher This is my final blog for the Research project – Video Assessment in PE. This was an extremely worthwhile project and it has shaped the future course of assessment for me in my career. From past experience, I know that I will continue to develop, adapt and modify this… Continue reading Video Assessment in Phys. Ed – A Reflection
-by Dean Schmeichel, Phys. Ed. Teacher (For more information on this project, read the first blog post here) I have now completed all of the video recordings for 300 students. There is a clip of the students participating in PE class (approximately one minute) and a conversation between each student and myself that lasts for… Continue reading Video Assessment in PE, Part II
-By Dean Schmeichel, PE Teacher Why this project? For the past few years I have been recording conversations (audio versions) at one of the term ends; whether it was term 1 or term 2 depended on the time commitment and how much procrastination I had done prior to November. These conversations were valuable, but not… Continue reading Using Video for Term-End PE Assessment
Amy Park Inquiry takes time. This has been a recurring theme, and one we have discussed at length, in our math/science class over the past few months. If we want students to become proficient in any aspect of their learning, or life for that matter, we must give them time. Time to wrestle with challenging issues. Time to celebrate… Continue reading Time…
by Tammy Berry, PE Specialist Mr. Schmeichel and I are in the process of working on improving on our reporting process by conducting verbal interviews with specific grades of Physical Education students every term. Our focus questions are as follows: 1) How does an Interview / Conversation (recorded and shared) based Term Assessment allow the… Continue reading Verbal Assessments in Physical Education
At the end of last school year, we had a few of our teachers experimenting with QR codes. We see QR codes having great potential for making student learning public – that is, using QR codes to share student work along with student self-assessments and reflections within our learning environment. You can read more about… Continue reading Making Learning Public with QR Codes
As a 1:1 school, one of our continual goals is to leverage the power of technology to support deep and intellectually rigorous work. Like many others, we believe that teaching and learning should not be about the tools, however emerging technologies, when embedded in well designed projects, can assist students in deep understanding and meaningful… Continue reading Using iMovie for Scientific Thinking
In a recent post we shared an example of podcasting as a powerful tool for students to demonstrate their mathematic thinking. Here’s another example of students recording their mathematical thinking, this time by a grade 4 student. We believe that this is one of the most powerful uses of a 1:1 laptop program – how… Continue reading More Math Podcasting
