I taught bowling in my 434 class last Friday, and within this lesson plan I had to have an assessment. My partner and I split the class in two groups and she took one group over to do "Blindfold bowling", which by the way is a really fun activity, and I took one group over to complete our assessment. After what should have been 5-7 minutes we were suppose to switch. Now our assessment took a little longer then we planned and we almost ran out of time but thankfully we fit everyone in to be assessed. This lesson taught me that I need to be more cautious when it comes to my time management. Our assessment was a rubric that would score the students on a one through four vs. how many pins the student knocked down with one roll of the ball. The assessment seemed to work out fine, our other two group members go in another week and hopefully our time management skills are a little better. I think that the time we put on our lesson plans doesn't always work out the way we plan when we move into a classroom setting.

Last Monday I taught my first big lesson in my 255 class. I would say it didn't go so well, for many reason but I did what I could with what I had. I'm actually looking forward to our next lab, which is our D lab because I think that I'd rather work by myself. I'm not the biggest fan of group activity unless I know I can count on my group members. For lab C my partner and I are teaching a handball like game named "Ace, King, Queen" it's actually very enjoyable and I think once we teach again and get into actually games the class will love the activity. We only got to one activity last time which was the class as a whole using one ball and hitting it from floor to wall. I hope to have a little bit more progression on Friday when I teach again and maybe we'll get a chance to get into some real games using smaller groups and more balls.

Mini Conference

So I went to my first Physical Education mini conference. I enjoyed it and will probably attend more. I went to the polar technology speaker and I found all his technology to be way over my head. I've never seen anything like the devices he had and I thought "how cool is it that I could bring some of this technology into my classroom in the future." I'd never seen anything like that, not when I was in school and I don't think many of my past teachers would know anything about that. I also took part in our introduction "We Will, We Will Teach You" which I thought was so fun. I actually wish I took part in more of the conference. Either by working at it or helping to coordinate it. Maybe in the future I'll take more of a part in the conference because I think things like this are wonderful for the major and the career. It helps keep Physical Educators up to date and helps up coming Physical Educators gain an upper hand when moving into such a competitive market. All around I enjoyed the conference and would love to help out and attend a future one.