I teach Elementary School Physical Education and the use of a blog in this type of setting might be a crazy idea, but I believe that it will serve a vital role.
The use of a blog in my setting would serve as a means to update my school community on the latest happenings in my Physical Education Classroom. It would be a place to share our current unit, vocabulary and skills that students are practicing in class. Additionally, it would serve as a resource to families for items such a fitness calendars, nutrition information and ideas for families to be physically active, together. My blog would also serve as a place where additional information and resources would be posted about the current unit of instruction, so that students can access the information outside of the classroom. Finally, I do not typically assign homework or expect student to practice skills outside of the classroom, but it would serve as a place to post ideas for extra practice and video references for student use.
I excited to continue my exploration of the use of blogs in the Physical Education Classroom and welcome any ideas and suggestions on how it could support instruction!
I think this is a fantastic idea. As a classroom teacher, I would appreciate knowing exactly what the students are doing in PE. It would be a place for me to see what vocab words I could incorporate into my class to help. I also think added video resources to the page would be very benefical for students especially the ones who are not very athletically inclined.
ReplyDeleteThank you!Your comment has made me think farther that I had originally planned and has given me some other ideas of what the blog would do for my classroom. It can also become a communication tool for myself and my colleagues to share common information to make content integration as more simplified task.
ReplyDeleteAs a special area teacher, we are frequently asked to incorporate classroom concepts into our lessons. This can be a daunting task as it takes a large level of communication for that to happen. However, with the use of a blog and followers on a blog it can become a simple task.