Friday, February 27, 2009
Field Experience
Yesterday, my assessment strategies class went to North Allegheny Intermediate School for a field experience. We observed 4 different classes. One was fitness testing which included the pacer, pull ups, push ups, and many more. Another was a class that was teaching self defense, another was spinning, where the students s at on an aerobic bike to a screen with a trail on it, and lastly a weight training class. North Allegheny's physical education classes are organized so that the students can take these lessons they learn and use them when they become adults. I really enjoyed the experience and it gave me some insights one what i could do when I become a teacher. All the teachers gave positive feedback and were very enthusiastic. Also, they love their jobs and want the students to get everything out of the class as they can. It was a great experience for me and I am looking forward to student teaching.
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What grade did you specifically watch? I haven't taken assessment strategies yet but I really enjoyed field experience in 61-152 last year. It was a great class and it's so neat when you actually get to observe it from a teacher perspective. It's crazy how different each and every phys ed class is from each other from school district to school district. It also blew my mind that other high schools have more than one phys ed teacher. In my high school, we had two phys ed teachers but they both taught in the same class. One just taught the guys and the other taught the girls, we had two gyms.
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to hear that there are places taking Physical Education classes seriously. I heard North Allegheny had a great program, glad to hear that stands true. It sounds as if they are very organized and give there students options to choose different activities that are not in most P.E programs. Hopefully I will make it there sometime to see for myself.
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