Field Experience Day 18 - April 23th 2012

Our Poster Displaying the Cues

Today we were able to teach our lesson to the class. It was centered around the skill theme, rolling. More specifically, the forward roll. Our lesson was able to hit all of the 3 domains. We were able to create an obstacle course that kept the students busy and active while having a forward roll station to assess the children. This method allowed us to see the children multiple times to assess them and allowed them to not get bored by rolling over and over. Instead, they were able to move on to different stations and practice other skills. We tried to tie in a theme with it so we chose "Tarzan." This theme is something that the children know and something that can definitely be related to rolling (gorilla roll). Also, during the activity, we were able to play music that made it a lot of fun ("Jungle Boogie").



Assessments of Student Learning:

I believe that this lesson was very successful. Our psychomotor objective was general enough that it was able to incorporate all skill levels but specific enough to gauge improvement. The objective asked for improvement based on a rubric we made to assess them before this lesson. Using a holistic rubric as an pre-assessment allowed us to see the level in which most of the children started at and then we planned our lesson from there. Based on our post-assessment, these cues, paired with our guidance, allowed the students to be more successful in the forward roll.

Our affective objective was also successful. We were able to witness numerous students speak kindly to one another and be respectful when sharing the equipment that was used. At the end of the lesson we were able to verbally quiz them on the cues for the forward roll that we had explained. The children had to be prompted for one of the cues but were able to name “Tuck Chin” and “Body in a Ball” the first time it was asked.

Our assessment was a holistic rubric that we were able to create using ideas from the Generic Levels of Skill Proficiency (GLSP) model. This assessment allowed us to observe the children as they were going through the obstacle course. As they came to the forward roll station (the wedge mat) we had table on a clipboard in which to record their score based on the rubric. 

Tarzan

One of our issues was that there was some back up on some of the stations, which caused the children to have to slow down. We would like to improve upon this if we were to do a stations type lesson again. It may be beneficial to add more stations so that the students are more spread out, or we could remove the stations that constantly get backed up (e.g. the higher balance beam). Adding more stations could be more beneficial because then the students could have move activity time doing a larger variety or tasks.This would increase time on task and activity time.