Impact on Student Learning
Physical Education teacher candidates utilize assessments and reflection to foster student learning and inform instructional decisions.
Physical Education teacher candidates utilize assessments and reflection to foster student learning and inform instructional decisions.
Element 5.1: Select or create
appropriate assessments that will measure student achievement of goals and
objectives.
Date: Spring 2012
Reflection:
In Basics
of Effective Instruction in Physical Education I taught a Power Yoga lesson.
The lesson started off with different stations introducing a new pose at each
station. At one station, "Lord of Dance Pose," I had an iPad set up
for the students to record themselves for the duration of time they were at the
station. The visual that was posted above the iPad let the students know what
exactly to do and what I was looking for. Allowing the students to record
themselves practicing the "Lord of Dance Pose" gave me the
opportunity to freely walk around and help at all the stations. This also
allowed me to be able to assess their psychomotor objective on my own time with
an assessment checklist rating their pose.
This artifact meets standard 5 because videotaping
allowed me to assess the student’s ability to perform the “Lord of Dance Pose”.
The “Lord of Dance Pose” was one pose that the psychomotor objective was based
on for the lesson.
As
a developing teacher this standard is important to me because I must be able to
properly assess students to help them improve and provide proper grades. Technology
is a great element to incorporate into lessons to assess students because this
allows the teacher to do the assessing outside of the class. Also, this allows
the teacher to concentrate on other elements of their lesson while the class is
in session.
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Element 5.2: Use appropriate
assessments to evaluate student learning before, during and after instruction.
Artifact:
Power Point of Assessments and Results
Date: Fall 2012
Reflection:
In
Statistics & Assess-Physical Education my group was assigned to assess our
class in the cognitive, affective, psychomotor domain and fitness. We had the
opportunity to formally assess them before and after our instruction. While
giving the lessons we would provide direct and specific feedback.
This
artifact supports standard 5 because it allowed me to assess students’ learning
in four different aspects that evaluated the quality of the teaching. The
assessments given during the class were a combination of formative and
informative and teacher, self, and peer assessment.
As
a future educator the practice of assessing before, during, and after
instruction is imperative to student learning. Assessments are a vital element
of every lesson to measure the learning of the students. Assessing before the
lesson is essential to find out where the students currently stand. Which helps
the teacher develop goals for the specific class and individuals. Assessing
during the lessons can help the teacher measure the understanding of the
students. The last assessment is one of the most important assessments to
measure the students’ total learning that occurred during the lesson or unit.
