Eric Kruger - Student Teaching week 5

This week I had something happen that was a first to me. At our school, we have to post grades every two weeks. I have a student in one of my freshman P.E. classes that did not dress for class 3 times during the two week grading period. With the no dress policy here, he would automatically get a 50% off his grade. I had to pull him aside and tell him what the situation was and that he needs to turn things around if he wants to pass the class. I also called home and emailed the family, with no response. I am hoping that he does start to come around and start to raise his grade because he is an athlete and he will be ineligible if his grade continues this way.
With the new unit that we are in (floor hockey) this gives a new opportunity to to work on different standards. Being that there is going to be a lot of hand eye coordination as well as puck handling, finding ways to put together movement patters to control the stick and puck is going to be vital (19.B.4b).  Along with this, it is going to be, important to be safe with the stick and puck to make sure that the students are not raising the head of the stick too high and that they are not lifting the puck into the air (19.C.4a).
One things that I want to make sure that I am focusing on over the next few weeks is to change my warm up for the classes and make it more dynamic. I want to find ways to get the students more involved in the warm up and more active. It is going to be important to find ways to incorporate the skills of the unit unto the warm up so that they can develop the skills better for the unit.