Making rubrics

Aquí os dejo un enlace estupendo para generar rúbricas para vuestras clases.

Es estupendo compartir y descubrir páginas que nos hacen la tarea más sencilla.

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Assessment sheet

Here you are a sample of assessment for a communicative activity 

The Human Square 

Purpose of Activity:

An excellent preassessment, formative, or summative assessment task for cooperative games.

Prerequisites:

Class discussions, team building activities, adventure challenge type tasks 

Suggested Grade Level

3-5

Materials Needed:

Blindfolds, pencils, Assessment Sheet

Description of Idea

The central idea for the Adventure Challenge unit is:

Effectively solving problems requires communication, trust, and an open mind.

The activity that I planned for my group was called The Human Square. I have done versions of this activity many times before and it has generally worked very well.

How to play:

Every student (with exception of two or three who will act as observers) will be blindfolded and spread out around the gym. Stressing safety as being most important, the students are instructed to carefully and gently make their way into the center of the gym (or there about) and meet.

Once all students have met around the center, they must figure out how they can create a human square formation that requires everyone to lay on the ground/floor. They are to remain blindfolded the entire time. Communication is emphasized as one of the keys to being successful in this challenge.

It will no doubt take them a while to accomplish this task, but as teachers, we must let them figure out how to do this on their own and try our best not to get involved. If safety is at stake or total meltdown occurs, the teacher must step in to help. Otherwise, THEY CAN DO IT!!! (I have rarely had a class not be able to complete this task.)

The role of the Observers
Choosing observers is very important as well. The role of the observers is to watch thoughtfully and carefully, noting on paper both positive behaviors that help the team or negative actions that hurt the team. They are instructed to look for examples of trustful/non-trustful actions, positive and negative communication, and examples of people being open-minded during the activity.

At the end of the activity, the observers provide feedback to the group based on what they had witnessed. However, the golden rule that I use for the observers is that they are not allowed to mention a student's name if they are feeding back anything negative. If the comments are positive, a student's name can be used, but not for negative comments.

Assessment Task
Please click below for the assessment task. Essentially, the students must reflect on the activity and jot some notes down regarding how they think Trust, Communication, and an Open Mind played large roles in this activity

Assessment Ideas:

Students must jot down notes on an assessment sheet which is provided and discussed ahead of time. As trust is essential, this activity allows students to reflect on their own actions and the actions of their group members.

http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/cooperative/HumanSquareAssessmentTask.pdf

Daily physical activity in schools

You can get some ideas for your lessons or if not you can improve your English knowledge!!!

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/teachers/dpa1-3.pdf

Different styles of teaching P.E

What do you think about these teaching styles? 

http://www.supportrealteachers.org/teaching-styles-in-physical-education.html

Do you use them in your P.E lessons? 

Marta Liaño

How do you call...?

Teachers of P.E. sometimes have problems to translate certain expressions such as naming traditional games, riddles or others.

For example, "Piggy in the middle" is a game we call in Spanish "Puntos", as you probably know.

There are many others like "What's the time, Mr Wolf", circle games like "Ring a ring of roses", "Eenie, Meenie, Minie Moe"...

Do you have other games you use in your CLIL lessons?

Here I share a traditional game it's usually played in birthday parties.

https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/hunt-the-thimble

You can also find many other games in this website.

Hope you like it.

Team Building Activities, Initiative Games, & Problem Solving Exercises

These activities are designed to help groups develop effective communication & problem-solving skills

Team Building Activities, Initiative Games, & Problem Solving Exercises

http://wilderdom.com/games/InitiativeGames.html

Marta Liaño

Physical education games lesson plans

In this link you´ll find some useful lesson plans. I hope you´ll learn from them 

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/physical_ed/games/

Marta Liaño

Cooperative Games

As I have told you Pinterest is a great source of information and when you write Cooperative games you can find a lot of ideas 

https://www.pinterest.es/explore/juegos-cooperativos/?lp=true

Pinterest is another way of getting lots of ideas for our lessons 

https://www.pinterest.es/capnpete/pe-cooperative-team-building-and-icebreaker-games/?lp=true

Marta Liaño

More resources

More resources 

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/subjects/pe

Here you are an interesting link! The activities you’ll find are quite simple and above all they are well explained 

www.teachingideas.co.uk/subjects/games 

Marta Liaño

Songs for teaching

Would you like to have a song for each topic or subject?

This is your website 

http://www.songsforteaching.com/ 

What are your favourite songs in PE? Share with us.

«DRONItCH»: la innovación entra en juego

Comparto con vosotros este artículo de una experiencia innovadora en Educación Física muy interesante, y con una aplicación muy clara para llevar a cabo en inglés.

http://www.abc.es/espana/castilla-leon/abci-dronitch-innovacion-entra-juego-201802211506_noticia.html

Si tenéis alguna experiencia parecida no dudéis en compartirla con nosotros.

Laura

Cooperative Games and Problem Solving Activities

Here you have a pdf about cooperative games and problem solving activities. 

I hope you like it!

https://miquon.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/The-PE-Cooperative-Games-and-Problem-Solving-Activities.pdf

Marta Liaño

Interesting game

This is an interesting game / Juego muy interesante y divertido!!!🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🎱🎱🎳🎳🏏🏏🏸🏸🏓🏓

https://youtu.be/TIMaHc18OE4

Marta Liaño

Find out about CLIL

This course is linked to another online course titled "New CLIL Methodology", that we offered last term.

Although they are different courses, you can find useful information about CLIL principles and characteristics on that course, which complete the contents in this CLIL for Science. 

Our course focuses on specific aspects that you can apply to your subject, but if you want to deepen understanding of theory about CLIL methodology, I leave the following link with the blog that was made for that course.

I hope you can find useful information that complete some of the concepts we deal with.

Activating CLIL

This is a very interesting video about main concepts in CLIL.

We had the opportunity to work with Rebecca Place last year, in our face to face CLIL course and she is fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=NIGUO8EBufQ

Hope you like it.