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Kim Eroh
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:34 am: |       |
Does anyone use a 5 point scale for daily Physical education grades ? or any other scale - rubric ? I would like to compare them to mine to improve upon it. Thanks.
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Isobel Kleinman
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:35 am: | |
You will find "Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 7-12" very helpful. It has separate performance rubrics based on a five grid system for each unit in a chapter - beginner, intermediate and advanced units - for 15 sports and activities (the wrestling unit is on the CD ROM included with the book).
Hope you enjoy using it and feel free to get back to me with feedback once you do. |
Carol Roe
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:36 am: | |
We currently have phys. ed. 5 days/per week in our elementary school and as a parent, I see the tremendous benefits this has for our kids. The school board is proposing reducing phys. ed. to 2 and 1/2 days per week, because it's what all the other school districts in the area have. I want to write a letter to the school board expressing my displeasure with this, but also with supporting facts that point out the (obvious, to me anyway) benefits of daily PE? Can anyone help me?
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Patty Horn
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:37 am: | |
I saw the info from Ms. Kleinman about her physical education book: "Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 7-12." I immediately went to order it at Amazon.com and later received an e-mail saying they no longer have it available. I then went to Barnes and Noble and got the same information. Where can I order this book? I really want to obtain a copy of it before school begins in the middle of August. I believe it will be quite helpful to me. Thank you to anyone with information. Feel free to e-mail me with the info. Also I am wanting to add folk dance to my high school PE curriculum. Any info on how to get started with this would be much appreciated. I have been searching the internet for a good CD or video with instruction to use for my classes. I would like to get one that has dances from several different countries. Thanks again.
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Isobel Kleinman
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:37 am: | |
The best way to get Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 7-12 is to order it directly from the publisher's website, Humankinetics.com. This book includes a nice section on dance, emphasizes folk dance for the beginning grades, and starts adding social dance to the mix as the grades get older. You will find the progressions helpful though you will need an independent source for the dance instructions. Human Kinetics has tons of materials available for your needs and as far as I can see, is absolutely the best site for finding resources in physical education. |
psh30
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:38 am: | |
Thank you for your response about your book. I am just now getting back on here to check on it. I did find it at Books A Million not far from where I live and have ordered it. Thanks for the publisher's website, Humankinetics.com. I am anxious to look at it.
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Lexa Jones
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:39 am: | |
Humankinetics.com should be a required bookmark for all new teachers. I personally have ordered over $300 worth of books from that site. Each book has its own style and activity list. I love them all!
There is also a website called Teachnology.com that has a rubric generator.
I have designed a 5 point rubric for the specific sports I teach. If I understand correctly, rubrics are supposed to NOT label the kids with letter grades but rather to inspire improvement. I teach middle school and use a thumb icon on my scale. Thumbs up, thumb 1/2 way between thumbs sideways and up, thumbs sideways, thumbs 1/2 way between thumbs sideways and down and thumbs down. It seems to work for the students, they like it better than the numbers. They will walk up to me and give me the thumb of their activity that day. I feel it keeps grading light and the students tend to try harder because they understand the difference between the thumbs up and down.
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Travis Fleshner
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:40 am: | |
I current teach 7-12 physical education. Our school district is going through an accreditation visit from our state department of education. Several of our areas do not have job descriptions,physical education being one. I have never written these and do not have experience in this area, can anyone send me an example or know of a web site were I can get an idea of this process?
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Isobel Kleinman
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:40 am: | |
I have been teaching during the accreditation process, but have no idea what goes on behind the scenes. Suffice it to say, the observation of an active class with an active teacher got rave reviews from accreditors and for me, there was no need to know more. |
whittaker
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:41 am: | |
I am at a middle school for the first time and we use a grading system of four points. If a student dresses out and participates they keep their current grade. If they do not dress out they lose 4 points. If they dress out and do not give 100% they can lose up to 4 points. Our schools system of grading allows for the students grade to lower but not increase. This system works for my classes because out of 150 students I have less than 10 kids making "D"'s or "F"'s.
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Anonymous
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:41 am: | |
I need help. Can anyone give me a professional position source for grading in pe. I am against making 50% of the grade just be for dressing out and need to convince others of the merits of skills testing, written test, etc. |
Scott Stefl
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:42 am: | |
I grade my students on a 4 point scale each day. I tell the students they have a chance to earn each of the four points each day. They are as follows: 1. Being on time, 2. Be prepared, 3. Exhibit appropriate behavior, and 4. Participate appropriately. I talk to all of the students about each one of these items at the beginning of the year and then let them know when they are not earning a certain point each day. It has worked nicely for me and seems to be fair to everyone. Hope this helps. |
lisa cypressi
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:43 am: | |
I like your 4 point/day grading system, but what do you do with excesive absences? |
Scott Stefl
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:44 am: | |
For excessive absences, I allow the students to do some kind of physical make-up work to get the points for that day. You can set a standard that works for you. I usually tell the students they can walk a half mile or do some kind of written work. I prefer the physical work over written, but there have been times when a person is just coming back to school at the end of a quarter and unable to do physical activity due to doctors orders, but they still want to make the days up. Hope this helps. Oh, I got my grading system from Barry Nofzinger and his email address is barrynof@msn.com if you want to ask him about what he does for excessive absences. Hope this helps
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Isobel Kleinman
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:44 am: | |
I recommend an egual division of participation (33%), knowledge (33%) and skills (33%). My district policy was different and too arduous.... 65% participation, 10% skill, 10% knowledge, 15% fitness....so many people did not follow it. |
baby gaynor rico repayo
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 11:46 am: | |
I use this breakdown for my PE grading (30%)participation, 20% attitude, 30% term assessment (written/practical or skill exams), 10% attendance and 10% uniform or dressing. Written exams is being measured too in PE because we believe that terminologies used should be clear to the students. Dressing is also important because a student performance is affected if one is not in proper attire. Discipline and behavior is another area that should be measured in PE. |
Carolyn L. Duff (Duffc)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 6:11 am: | |
I am interested in hearing opinions and experiences with using fitness tests as a part of grading. |
Bob Edwards
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| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 6:39 am: | |
Hi.
My system for grading:
60% / 40% split
The 60% = 10% for each of the following;
Effort, Uniform, Sportsmanship, Teamwork, Leadership, Overall Behaviour.
40%= 10% Fitness, 10% Knowledge, 20% Skill
Any comments |
Shane
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| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 11:22 am: | |
I use a 3-point daily scale. This determines ~75% of their total grade.
1 point each day is determined by if they dressed or not. Even if they don't change clothes, they still participate.
The other 2 go towards their effort, attitude, attention, behavior, etc...
The other 25% of their total grade is determined through quizzes, tests, or assignments.
I was using a 5-point scale similar to my 3-point with 1 point still going towards changing clothes. I didn't like the fact that kids could never change and still pass though. That is nearly impossible now with this 3-point scale.
My colleagues have switched to this 3-point scale as well. |
Shane
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| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 11:27 am: | |
Carolyn L. Duff (Duffc):
As far as fitness tests, when I give fitness tests I almost exclusively grade on effort (I'll look at improvement as well - in respect to how hard they've worked on improving their skill level in daily activities). I don't feel it's fair to grade a kid strictly on their ability, so if they are giving 100% all the time they earn full points. If they are screwing around or just going through the motions, they earn anywhere from partial to zero credit. I've found this to work very well with both the high-level kids and the less-skilled kids.
What are others thoughts/ideas? |
barbara livingston
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| | Posted on Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 7:27 pm: | |
at present we grade 70% daily participation (10 points/day/ dress, effort, behavior), 20% skill (fitness testing, swim skills etc.), 10% cognitive (specific sport info/fitness info) |
barbara livingston
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| | Posted on Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 7:32 pm: | |
grading fitness tests..........effort as well as level achieved.......with info in previous posting.......any student who dresses/participates daily ........even if a 'c' student in skills, will still earn an A in the course. I use Presidential rating as 100%/National rating as 90%, and below as 80% with some leaway in between...... |
pegguilmette
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 21, 2005 - 6:43 pm: | |
I know Iam late to this discussion. My high school recently went from pass/fail to numerical grading.
Our first attempt at giving numerical grade was very similar to what is posted here. We have made a couple of changes to include
50% attendance
25% portfolio & assessments (written and skills)
25% effort/ participation
The effort/participation is based on teacher observation. We include the changing issue in the effort grade. If the student does not change, they can not get full credit for the day. We did this because we had a large number of students repeating, not because they refused to participate, but because of the changing issu. Our classes end up being mixed grades because of students repeating. We hope to have more students pass (with low grades, but pass none the less). |
Katie Zinkiewich (Katiezink)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 5:50 am: | |
Our high school has block scheduling and basically sees our students for 85 minutes every four days. Our grading system has completely been linked up to the NYS Learning Standards. It has really worked out very well. I have placed a link here to the grading page on our web site: http://www.brockportwebsite.com/bcsd/departs/physe d/physical_education_grading.htm
Basically, we have our system broken down into the following categories:
NYS Learning Standards 2a, 2b & 2c are graded daily and worth 40% of the grade
NYS Learning Standard 1a (skill)is worth 32% of the grade
NYS Learning Standards 1a, 2b, 3a & 3b (skill strategy and implementation) are 12% of the grade and NYS Learning Standards 1b, 3a, 3b & 3c (cognitive assessment)are worth 16% of the grade.
Any students who are absent are required to make up the class(s) that they miss. If they don't, they lose the points. Most students do make up the classes - We also have a schoolwide attendance policy where is a student is not present in class a minimum of 85% of classes throughout the year,they audit and do not recieve credit, regardless of their grade! |
Sally Otton
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| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 11:22 am: | |
Anyone else have ideas on make-up work for high schol students? Our schools have students come in for 2-15 minute jogging sessions to make up for 1 class period. Lots of objections by students and parents. |
S. Swanson
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| | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 8:07 am: | |
We have students do a combination of physical activity and a written assignment. Since they have
missed instruction or practice on skills as well as fitness we have a 30 minute make=up time before school three days per week--teaachers have to be in the building 40 minutes before classes so it works out for us. Kids sign up for the day they are able to come--must be within 2 weeks of the absence. We have the gym set for what ever activity we were teaching--badmitton, volleyball, etc. They take part in the game or skill activity just. If there are not enough kid to play a game they work on their skills. Each session finishes with a 5 minute jog. Everyone seems happy with this set-up. Just like any other class it reflects what they missed not simply making up the time. |
darlene
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 10:55 am: | |
I am currently in my 10th year teaching secondary physical education. I have seen a few different grading scales used and have found that for our needs, with large classes, the following breakdown works fairly well extra credit is offered at various times throughout the semester but remains unannounced until it becomes available)
30% dress
30% participation
20% written
20% skills (to include fitness testing) No one receives lower than a 'C' if they try on their skills test. This seems to imporve their attempts. Since our school wears PE uniforms, we do require they wear them each day. Non dressed students tend to be off task and, with the current fashion trends, are unable to perform certain assigned tasks. I would love to have my non dressers still participate in a physical activity, but have not found something that works well in my new school. I have used laps, stations, written assessments of the days activities, etc. Any assistance with this would be helpful. |
Robin Tocco
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| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 5:19 pm: | |
I believe that it is important as educators to continue to teach and grade on the cognitive aspects of Physical Education and Health. We need to not just simply grade on sport rules, but we need to ask questions on issues in Fitness and Health. I created a final exam in PE in the ninth grade that focused on Target Heart Rate, the five components of fitness, the Physical Activity Pyramid, Weight Lifting, Aerobic vs. Anaerobic exercise, etc. I believe that the students were suprised that they had a final in PE at first, but then they realized how much that they learned in my class. It was successful, and I will continue to give tests such as this one. |
Joseph Barr (Shanghai_knight)
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| | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 8:29 am: | |
Our grading system uses a modified rubric (1-5 scale) for skills, fitness and participation/cooperation that is student-completed, but the teachers have the final say in where a student is really located in a particular area. This is especially helpful when grading subjective areas like participation/cooperation, where what may be good performance for one is not for the other. In addition, we also have at least one cognitive test per quarter that is simple, but covers the very basics about each activity. The rules, strategies and skills for sports are posted online and on the bulletin boards for kids to see at all times, and even though the test may be short, they still have to know all of the material :>)
Breakdown is as follows:
Skills: 30%
Fitness: 20%
Participation: 20%
Cooperation: 20%
Tests and Projects: 10%
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Cynthia Cieslinski (Cindyc)
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Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 7:21 pm: | |
When high school students do not change for p.e. at your school, are they still required to participate? I've been subbing this past year and most schools I have been to still have the students participate. I see pros and cons with this and at what point do they fail? I would really like some feedback. |
