The main topic that I have been researching this year is Classroom Management. In the first term I researched CM in a classroom setting, this term I will be researching this in the PE classroom setting. The three things that I will look at are Organization, Student Involvement, and Safety. These three were the most important when looking at CM in the Physical Education setting. I have done a little bit of research on the topic but have been more focused on my classes beginning at my school.
The one article that I found discussed the period length of classes on the west and east coast. The article concluded that the periods that were longer were more beneficial for the students in the class. The students had more time to dress down and also do activities in class. I like the 90 minute periods because I like to run my classes like a practice. An example would be in basketball I would do and individual skill then a team skill and conclude the class with games. You must also warm up and also take role in the class. If I were in a shorter time period it would be tough to get my students to complete everything in one day.
Chad,
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you know this, but next year Salem-Keizer is going to a 7 period day were each class will be approximately 50min. This is definitely not ideal for a PE situation and limits what you will be able to do with your kids effectively. If you include their dress down before and after, that limits your class to about 35-40 minutes. This is increase your classroom management because you will have to be on your students a lot more and have to deal with a lot of time management. Now might be a good time to ask some veteran teachers if they have taught in this type of setting and how they managed the clock for their classes.
Hi Chad,
ReplyDeleteOne question I have is are you going to run classes with different CM styles so you can see the difference and compare? Safety is not something that you can experiment with, but organization and student involvement are definitely areas that you could try different things.
What are your main ways of collecting data going to be? Which of these are you going to use in the next couple of weeks before our next dialogical update is due?
Do you have something the students have to do at the beginning of each class...like stand in an alphabetical line for role or stretch? Just wondering.
Do you have any ideas about what you will try for the student involvement piece?
Denise
Chad, that is an interesting conecept. I know that people have vaired opinions on the block schedule. I can see how this would benifit the PE classes because alot of time is wasted in the locker room. As far as your class room management you can try to use you saftey regulation as a fall back for rules. If kids are not listening or messing around you can always discipline them and use the safety rules as a reason.
ReplyDeleteHi Chad
ReplyDeleteGood work citing a reference in your blog post. Be sure to actually Cite the source, i.e. author, date, etc....
I have questions similar to Denise--what is your data collection plan? What do you think you are going to look for and what data is going to help you look at it? in terms of class time...you obviously can't change the length of the class time, but you have control over what they do during your class? are you going to look at how to most effectively use your class time? I'm just trying to help you make connections to your interests and forming a study.
and, DENISE....remember, this isn't a traditional study where you set up control groups to compare. This is about learning about your situation and doing what's right for your students because that is best--not because you want to set up a study to compare. Make sense? Jill
Hi Jill,
ReplyDeleteI remember! I promise! I meant just trying out different styles throughout the semester to see what works best and things like that.
No control groups? And you call this research? ;)