Analyzing Student Behavior
It’s human nature to quickly blame an external source when something goes awry within your class as a teacher. I often catch myself wondering why students are not listening to me as opposed to what I can do as a teacher to change this. Students’ behaviors in class can be seen as an indication of whether or not the lesson being taught is engaging and developmentally appropriate. For the fifth installment of my systematic observation series on PHYSEDagogy I will be discussing using event recording to analyze behaviors exhibited by students.
Analyzing Teacher Prompting, Questioning Skills and Other Essential Skills
As a physical education teacher, I know I have a lot to constantly be working on to improve the way I deliver a quality lesson.There are a variety of pedagogy practices that we know of from our work at universities and staying current within in our field. However, we do not always know the best way to evaluate these practices. The use of event recording will uncover a variety of ways to improve our practices and thereby improve our students’ ability to become physically literate. For the fourth installment of the systematic… Read More
Augmented Reality: Building Resources and Student Independence in Physical Education
As I dive deeper into the world of augmented reality I am recognizing more opportunities for creating engaging activities in physical education as well as making targets that classroom teachers can use for physical activity within their class. I am continuing to use the program DAQRI, which allows you to create and share your own targets, to integrate augmented reality into physical education. As a review, a target is an item that is scanned to make visible an overlay which appears on top of the target object. DAQRI gives you the ability to create multiple overlays using the same target by utilizing the… Read More
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