Professional Documents
Culture Documents
6.5 Engaging
T- Gather information on instructional T-
local strategies from other P.E. teachers S- Teachers on staff will use instructional
6.5
communities in T-Exploring outside of my school site T-Applying strategies in their own classrooms. They
support of the S-Exploring S- Staff complete survey discussing what S-Exploring will also find value in building their own
instructional
strategies they would be interested in network of educators in their subject
program
seeing implemented at our school site areas.
Section 3: Teacher Leader Inquiry Focus and Planning
Project Title Inquiry Question Project Objective(s)
How can I access more of my local community of Physical Educators to improve my Be able to share learned teaching practices from other schools in our local
Creating a community, one contact at a time!
own teaching practices? community to develop a network
Audience for Project How Project Fits into Professional Goals and/or
How Audience Satisfaction will be Assessed
(Who Participates/Who Benefits) Department/School/District Needs
I intend to develop my Professional Development within my local Physical Educator
community.
School site educators, Administrator and Mentor Audience survey
GOAL: Reach out and observe one local Physical Education teacher
Special Emphasis: Teacher Leader Model Standards and NBPTS Core Propositions
Directions: Identify at least one NBPTS and at least one Teacher Leader Model Standards that are the primary focus of your project. Explain how these standards will be incorporated.
Special Emphasis Focus How Special Emphasis will be Incorporated
TLMD: Domain 4. Facilitating
Improvements in Instruction and
I want to be able to use a newly created network of educators to update teaching
Student Learning.
standards within our P.E. curriculum. I would like to create this network that can connect
together more in the future and continue to build a cohesive teaching staff outside of my
NBPTS: Proposition 5: Teachers are school site.
members of learning communities.
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Provide 1-2 sentence
summary of your teacher
I will reach out to other physical educators in the area and begin to create a network of professional educators
leader project. locally.
Summarize process for
I want to include these learned strategies into our P.E. curriculum while also giving classroom teachers ideas on
analyzing effectiveness of
leadership role. how to incorporate more movement that benefits our students.
Section 4: Inquiry Research and Exploration
Research/Professional Learning (Identify two articles that have informed inquiry focus. Provide title, URL or citation, and statement of what was learned.)
This article suggests the number of benefits to adding structured movement to classrooms during
the school day. This specific article discusses how these free movement time slots can help
students diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. Many teachers in the article explained the struggle to
meet the needs of all students in their classroom but that adding exercise to their class time had
large benefits.
Mulrine, C. F., Prater, M. A., &
Jenkins, A. (2008). The Active Most students at a young age have a difficult time self-regulating their body movements after
Classroom: Supporting Students periods of inactivity. These times present themselves frequently throughout the school day such
as walking from class-to-class, waiting in line for lunch, and other transitional times. Adding
with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity “walking paths'' and “transition game courts” in the school environment has shown to limit
Disorder through Exercise. behavior interruptions in the classroom.
TEACHING Exceptional Children,
40( 5), 16–22.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00400599080
In this article, the results from a study in Malaysia show that
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students benefit from daily brain breaks, but for more than just
having students adjust their focus. Students in the study were
also observed playing transition games with their peers to
The Effects of Brain Breaks on
Motives of Participation in Physical
create a positive competition between one another.
Activity among Primary School This increased the enjoyment levels of their students and gave
Children in Malaysia Int. J. Environ. students opportunities to take physiological risk in between
Res. Public Health 2019, 16( 13), 2331; learning periods.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132331
“In conclusion, brain breaks effectively helped to maintain the
enjoyment of participating in PA over time, especially when it is
performed together with peers as it helps to trigger a healthy
competition.”
Colleagues (Summarize how two colleagues have addressed similar leadership roles OR the status of the issue at department/school/district level.)
The teacher student created a learning TS reached out into local community to
Presentation, google form and information
community of local educators in her subject demonstrate the importance of teacher
chart of other educators information.
area (Physical Education). teams.
Mentor Feedback
Directions: The Mentor should Identify strengths and areas of improvement in each of the following areas.
Due to covid-19 I was unable to access my audience effectively. Use of google forms has been helpful in my teaching experience. I hope to
use it more in the future to receieve feedback from my students.
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students with other
instructional challenges
For future professional I hope to continue to work with my teacher community even more moving forward. Distance learning has made
development this a tougher challenge than I had anticipated but I am confident it will not stop us.
For supporting
others/department/ Feedback from other teachers at other school sites.
school/district
Other Teachers on my staff and in my community were very positive and helpful with my project!
Overall, I am very happy with how my presentation came out and I look forward to working with them again in the future.
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