In terms of my first area of focus that involves collaboration with fellow health and physical educators in the sharing of technology-based lessons, I have received the support of our supervisors to bring up this idea at our next in-service. The main problem with this is that we will not be meeting with all of the county teachers until the end of the school year. I may have to send out an email prior to this meeting to get the wheels turning so that a meeting can take place early in the summer while lessons are still fresh in our heads. One major resource that our PE department was able to receive was a portable discovery cart. This will allow the opportunity to incorporate technology in physical education on a daily basis. I have already begun to record students demonstrating basketball skills in order to put these demonstrations in a powerpoint to model the appropriate skill. The problem is that I can’t get the videos to actually play. I have a meeting tomorrow with our IT support person to help trouble-shoot this issue. I figured that I would create present my lesson at the in-service to show that I have something to bring to the table and hopefully they will see this as a positive step towards getting our classes more interactive.
On the other hand, my second goal is not going as well. I have received a very vague outline of the consequences of improper use of technology from our administration and have found through survey results within our school that there are many teachers in our school that do not put a lot of emphasis on taking the time to demonstrate correct and incorrect usage. I was hoping to gather ideas from my colleagues and thus far have been unsuccessful. At the present time, I am still contemplating ways to modify this action plan. One suggestion would be sit down with our ILT team and try to put together a powerpoint modeling responsible use of technology. I personally need to learn more about security settings in order to prevent students from entering dangerous territory on the internet. This is definitely still a work in progress.
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Charlene,
ReplyDeleteIt is great to hear that you have already started to contact your PE and health education department about presenting ideas. To prepare for your next in-service, which is taking place at the end of the school year, you could try to gather up two or three other colleagues to help you with your presentation for the meeting. I think showing up as a team and demonstrating the need for more teachers to implement technology-based lessons may be beneficial and more motivating for teachers to see. It sounds like your action plans are going well and that by next school year you will have some interactive lessons to use.
It sounds like the survey results did not go as well as you wanted but the survey tells you that your school staff is not knowledgeable about this subject and may need some training. This may be a lot of work for you but if you could form a committee at school that can help teachers learn about the proper uses of technology and its consequences, then some teachers may be more inclined to model and advocate it in their classrooms. This committee could also help you to create the PowerPoint and present to your school staff members. Just some a few suggestions. It looks like you have some good action plans that you are trying to accomplish. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHanNa Chung
HanNA,
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a great idea to form a team to put the presentation. Strength in numbers right? I already have a few people in mind for this so thanks for the tip.
Charlene
Charlene,
ReplyDeleteThe school I teach at is a small charter school in an urban area. We work out of an old brick building that has five classrooms filled with computers. There is no gymnasium. The state requires us, however, to have a physical education class. The workout component of the class is largely done independently by the students. We have instituted Wii Fit into our curriculum, but it is not very organized. Your idea of video taping the students demonstrating the proper shooting techniques is something we could do for other exercises. We of course we need a digital video camera and cooperative technology. I hope you figure out how to get the videos to play.
Brandon
Brandon,
ReplyDeleteI am very jealous of the Wii fit. Our students would love to have that utilized in class. I do love our flip camera and I did find out yesterday that we will have to order another software program in order to view videos.
Thanks for you post,
Charlene