Five Quick Ways to Assess Student Understanding
In my journey to use the 30 minutes of allotted Physical Education time most efficiently, I have always tinkered with various ways to assess my students. Assessment is a vital part of Physical Education. As teachers we need to know where students are. Once we know student levels we can then create plans (lessons) to get them to where they need to be.
These five ways I use in order to save time but still gather the data I need for student growth.
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Part 2: The Ready Position (Making the Minutes Disappear a Little Less Quickly)
In my last blog post, I presented an idea to save time by creating beginning of the class routines. I advocated for having a system where the students know what to do even before they enter the gym. My students have been in school for three weeks so far. My returning students know the expectation from last year and therefore had no problem reacquainting to the expectation. However, with students that did not have me last year the adjustment has taken more work. I expect my students to be “on” from the moment they reach the gym and some children aren’t used to that. However, with consistency these students will become acclimated soon. Consistency is always the key.
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