This was a difficult week to really talk about. With the weather and how cold it was, my school has two late starts, and two days off. On the days that are late starts, our periods are naturally shortened and it makes it very difficult to be able to set up our full, or even actually lessons for the day. For all of my classes, it is required that either we set up equipment, or classes before us set up the equipment to use for the day. With not much time on our hands, all of the P.E. classes elected to forgo setting up the equipment and just alibiing for the day. In all of my freshman P.E. classes (3), we either played danish long ball, or combined with another class and played a large game of kickball. In my strength and conditioning class, it was pretty much up to the students on what they wanted to do for the day as we would not have enough time to be able to get through our assigned workouts for the day. With this as well, during today on the late start, it was a unique situation as the school was just coming back from 2 days off and would be heading into the weekend the next day. Needless to say, most students were already checked out the moment they walked in the doors today.
It is hard to trying to find standards to attach to this week due to its nature and the circumstances. It did help me understand and work with adaptation when situations change and the lesson plan has to go out the window for that day. Next week, we are starting new units, so I want to make sure that I am able to set a good understanding of the units upfront and make sure that the students feel comfortable heading into them.
It was an interesting week to say the least. When class time is reduced and before and after class changing time is taken into consideration than instruction time is really short. This being said it is a good experience for you to adapt your plans to the situation and it sounds like you certainly had to do that this week. I hope to see you this coming week and hopefully it will be a "normal" week with minimal interruptions.I would suggest that you proof read your blog posts before publishing to be sure it says what you intended. Sometimes we quickly type and grammatically it is unintentionally somewhat awkward. I will be out of the country for the next few weeks so depending on internet connections I may or may not be able to post comments.
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It was an interesting week and you seem to have made some accommodations in what you were able to accomplish with students. Always feel free to just talk about what did occur, what planning, changes, collaborations took place. We understand being flexible.
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