Each week that I am posting I have decided to look at a specific area that I am searching for under my theme of classroom management. This week I have decided to look into Student Involvement in Physical Education. The key words that I put into the data base this week were "Physical Education" and "Student Involvement." After searching through the few and far between results that I found I have picked one Specific article.
The article that I will be discussing this week is about involvement in PE with the female gender. This study looked into 32 different senior ladies who were taking a PE class. These ladies were from 22 different school districts in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The research team used interviews with teachers, student questionares, and course outlines to collect data. There were many themes that emerged in the article which were; focus on lifetime activities, student involvement in course development, authentic assessment, gender as a course design feature, value added options, and finally a positive and respectful class environment. The findings showed that most PE classes were developed with these things in mind.
When looking at the themes I can now use what I have found out from this article to maybe help some of my female students who don't participate find a way to have more fun. I am using some of these techniques now but have found that most of females just don't want to be in PE period. It can be frustrating at times to watch females just sitting in one spot during an entire game but I understand that I must stay positive and try to help them the best way that I can. I will just have to try and do my best when it comes to keeping all of my students active in Physical Education.
Chadly,
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome that you are finding articles that are helping you with your teaching. I have the same type of problem in my math class with students not doing anything and I am trying to find different ways to help motivate them. So here are a couple of different things I have done in the last 2 weeks that has helped me. Last week I posted all my students grades on the docucam and let them see all the homework, quizzes, and tests that they have turned in and completely and what their scores are. This was helpful for some of them that were on cruise control to actually see that their lack of effort was getting them a "F" in my class. Then I demonstrated to them one persons grade how one homework assignment makes a huge difference in their grade. By doing so, I had a bunch of kids turn in their homework later in the week. Second thing I did for the rest of the kids that do not care was I called their parents, parole officer, IEP case worker, EGC case worker and had a heart to heart to find out what I could do to help motivate them. This was good because one it made me look really good to the parent, which is nice, but they all gave me some good advice and you know they talked with the student as well.
For you, I think pulling in a few of your females into your office and having a heart to heart with them about their efforts would be a good idea and show them your grade book and let them see their grade. If they don't care about their grades them find something that they care about and try to use that to your advantage. Maybe they can give you some suggestions on things they like to do and you could incorporate that into your lesson plan one week. If these girls see that you are trying to help them out, I'm sure they will return the favor.
Well, I'm sure you already know this - but high school females are too difficult to figure out. Good luck with that. You say you have asked them questions about class, but have you given them alternatives to playing a specific game...like maybe shooting free throws instead of scrimmaging?
ReplyDeleteAre you going to ask them questions in the following weeks about what they like and don't like? Why they aren't really participating? Maybe an exit question for the whole class?
I like that you are very consistent about finding articles that help you with your research question.
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Chad
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you were able to do some research this week and that you have found a useful article.
As I read your post I am wondering what questions it has left you with? What are you now wondering? As you see some of your female students not participating, what questions are you asking yourself? What questions are you asking your mentor teachers? What questions are you asking those students? OF the girls who are participating, what are you asking them to find out why it is that they do participate?
ON that same note, have you given them any sort of short survey to find out why some students participate and some don't? What have you tried in your class and what are you noticing?
This is such an important topic because this is one of the last chances that these girls will have to find the fun in exercise--which will impact the rest of their lives. jill