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Welcome to the Triple A Learning blog for MYP Physical Education. The most recent blog posts are listed below and you can access the blog archive by following the appropriate link in the panel on the left.

November 3, 2010

Lifesaving: Communication is the Key

I am on an aquatics tip, as I am just finishing six week long units in the pool for each year of the MYP. The third year have done lifesaving, which also included developing freestyle and breaststroke, lifesaving backstroke and sidestroke. The students also looked at the 4 As of rescue: awareness, assessment, action and aftercare and developed their rescue skills and then applied them in various scenarios. Community and Service was the AOI: How can I serve my community?

Communication is the key to a strong performance. We worked on scripts and rehearsing what we would say in different situations. For each rescue scenario for the performance rescue, the students were assessed on their effective communication throughout the whole rescue. Is this criterion C or D or both? I left it in C as it is a part of the performance, and focused on the communication in the group learning activities for their assessment against criterion D.

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October 31, 2010

Snorkeling..a new world awaits!

Filed under: Physical Education — Tags: , , — Katrina @ 8:15 pm

I have just finished teaching snorkeling to students in the first and second years. Its my third year of teaching this popular recreational activity and I must say, it is a great unit for so many reasons. The main one is that the kids love it! I have to keep asking them to stop and get out of the pool at the end of the lesson. They could stay in the water for hours!  In terms of the MYP, it is a great unit to explore Community and Service and of course Environments.

Meeting the needs of a wide range of ability levels is not a big issue with snorkeling.  Stroke technique is still an integral part of each aquatics lesson and sometimes I split the class into ability levels and have the beginners swim and the advanced snorkel, then switch halfway during the lesson. I get to give more individualized stroke feedback to the group doing stroke development and also peer teaching, while I can set some problem solving tasks or station work for the snorkelers. The advanced swimmers can develop more advanced snorkeling techniques such as going deep to retrieve items off the bottom of the pool or playing ‘Octopush’ the underwater hockey game while the students that were ‘non-swimmers’ at the start of the unit enjoy the freedom of swimming without worrying about their breathing. They can still work on clearing skills in shallow water. The snorkeling becomes an individualized learning plan as students can  choose the skills or activities they want to work on and the choice also keeps them motivated and focused.

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October 28, 2010

MYP PE joins the community!

Filed under: Physical Education — Katrina @ 6:34 pm

It is very exciting to start this blog for MYP PE teachers and I hope that it will be another way that we can stay connected and also share ideas, resources and have some lively discussion about our subject and our everyday teaching and learning. I am new to blogging so it may take me awhile to get the hang of it but here we go….

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July 7, 2010

Converting blog posts to pdf files

Adobe pdf logoIf you find a blog post useful, you may want to use it with students as stimulus or perhaps encourage them to look further at the issues raised by the post. To use a post with students, you may find the Web2PDF tool useful. This is a great site that will convert a blog posting or blog page to a pdf file for you. Having the posting as a pdf file may make it easier to use with students or even perhaps to make the file available to them through your own intranet, departmental web site or perhaps Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Web2PDf is available from the following web address:

Web2PDFconvert.com

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