Standard+I

Standard I 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:** a. **promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness** b. **engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources** c. **promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes** d. **model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments**
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Include all that apply: instructional strategies such as differentiation, technology standards (NETS-S), state standards.** Planning for my classroom has changed over the last year. Our district has gone to a program called Learning Focused Schools (LFS). I am in the process of being trained for the full implementation of the program in the near future. Right now teachers in our district are required to have an Essential Question for each lesson, in the future we will be required to have all lesson plans done in LFS format. Being a Physical Education teacher my instructional strategies may be a bit different than a teacher who is always in a classroom, my classroom is a gymnasium, weight room, or playing field outside. I have an activity based curriculum which has the students participating actively at least 90% of the time that I have them throughout the year. I start planning by mapping out a unit plan for the specific unit. This gives me an idea of how many lessons I am going to be using within a particular unit. I make sure that I have aligned the unit with the Pennsylvania Physical Education State Standards and or Technology Standards (NETS-S) if technology is being used within the unit. Once I have the Unit plan done, I begin working on the individual lessons that make up the unit. When designing each lesson I start with what major concepts and skills that are necessary for the student to fully understand the sport and the skills/techniques needed to participate successfully in that sport or activity. The next step is finding the specific standards from the unit plan that match up with what we are attempting to learn in the lesson. Once I have the standards aligned I will work on the general layout of the lesson, how the lesson is going to flow step by step- the intro, agenda for the lesson, activities, and closure. Each lesson is built pretty much the same way with the same layout. After the lesson is structured I go back an add even more detail as far as instructional strategies that are involved. I like to use a variety of instructional strategies to make sure I am connecting with all learning styles as well as LS and ESL learners. I look at the lesson to see if any adaptation needs to be made for individual learners in the class. I think one of the most important teaching strategies is checking for understanding, making sure the students are understanding the information is critical. In my curriculum many skills have to be demonstrated, this is great for the visual learners, I also make sure I am talking through the demonstration for the auditory learners and when the students practice the the skill we get the hand on connection for the kinesthetic learners. When it comes to technology I like to be very efficient, I like to have as much time for physical activity for students as possible. The majority of the use of technology is built into the introduction and closure portion of the lessons. This allows the activities involving technology to be quick yet effective which saves time for physical activity. I will also use technology for projects throughout the course. With the availability of mobile labs, portable projectors, white boards, and wireless internet I can have everything set up in the gym to save time as well.
 * 1. List all that goes into planning for classroom instruction.

Introductions to team sports by using the projector and laptop with wireless access to show a clip from YouTube of that sport being played by athletes at a high level. Students use Glogster to create interactive posters about the sport they are assigned. Students use www.fitday.com to keep an online journal and record of their calorie intake and expenditure. Students answer question for an assessment using their cell phones and a wiffitti screen.
 * 2. List the types of projects and activities you use with your students.**


 * 2a. Do your planned projects and activities include any of the following: project-based learning, authentic activities, higher order thinking, collaboration, problem-solving, creativity and innovation, and use of digital tools and resources? List all that apply.**

Project based learning, creativity and innovation, and using a digital tool are included in the interactive poster using Glogster. Students must use higher order thinking skills when completing all tasks involved with the calorie intake and expenditure activity. Student collaboration is done every single day in the regular PE curriculum, whether it be through teamwork in a game or and activity where I asked them to collaborate with others to solve a problem or problem solve. Authentic activities are also completed daily in the PE curriculum do to the nature of the subject, all of the students practice of skills are authentic activities.

I would like to be able to improve on using technology more in the weight training and gymnasium sections of the PE curriculum. I can also improve on including more higher order thinking activities and Bloom's into my units and lessons. I would also like to improve on having more student centered activities using technology. As a teacher I use a lot of technology to create better lessons and to improve the quality of information I am getting to my students, but I need to start having the students more directly involved with hands on activities using technology.
 * 3. List at least 3 ways that you can improve or would like to grow with regard to planning.**

Resources such as mobile labs with wireless access, white board mounted in the gym, projector and laptop on a portable cart for use in the gym, many of the web 2.0 tools, and more collaboration time with PE staff members to build/update curriculum and lessons to include more technology.
 * 4. Resources that will help you grow in this strategy.**

Summary Statement for Strategy 1 I would like to expand the PE curriculum as a whole. I want to incorporate students using technology in a hands on setting that includes higher order thinking skills in the weight room and gymnasium.
 * For step 3 above, write a summary statement. Include this statement on your Action Plan Summary page.**