Assignment 3A

     Having a PE lesson was a bit different than most of the others in this class, I am guessing.  The pre and post assessments are much simpler.  I chose to teach one of the running days rather than one of the swimming ones.  I asked students to record what they thought was a reasonable goal time for the run.   Then I had them write which parts of the run would be the toughest, easiest, etc (they have ran the course before).

     I gave students strategies to overcome running up hills, down hills, different breathing patterns, small ways to conserve energy while running, etc.  Most of them had never been "taught" to run so they were actually very interested. 

     The best part of the day was watching those students who pushed themselves and beat their goal time.  While they finished exhausted you could see the look of accomplishment on their face when I read their finishing time.

Assignment 2B

     I incorporated my lesson into our preseason basketball conditioning so the students I used were actually all basketball players.  Overall the lesson was a success, in that their fitness improved from the beginning of the week, to the end of the week.  They all improved at different rates as some excelled in certain aspects of the biathlon and others struggled.

     For a physical education lesson I think pre-assessments are fairly straightforward and it is easy to measure progress throughout the lesson.  I recorded their times on the first day when they ran their practice biathlon and we used that as a barometer for the rest of the week.  All of the students improved by the end of the lesson.

     I do think that the one gaping hole in my pilot is that all of the students I used were already somewhat fit and athletic.  If this were an actual PE class there would be students of all different abilities, and I would have to adjust my rubric slightly.  However, I feel that improvement is success.  No matter what the end time is, if it is better than the original then the lesson was a success.