Strategies for Reaching At-Promise Students

This professional development course is available to K-12 teachers and is available for recertification and salary advancement. The goal of this professionally learning course is to provide teachers with the necessary skill set to effectively implement available technological resources to enhance the holistic physical education experience. The course focuses on establishing an understanding of what it means to provide a holistic physical education experience through the use of technology. Teachers will explore a variety of video-based, instrument-based, and smartphone-based resources and programs for students to utilize. Throughout the course, teachers will also be asked to reflect on their prior experience and apply the concepts and skills they learn to improve current practices.

In the final project, participants will put the knowledge and skills gained throughout the course to use in order to create a holistic physical education student plan. The student plan will demonstrate the participant’s knowledge of the various strategies and resources explored throughout the course in order to effectively address the topics included in a holistic physical education (PE) experience.

Objectives

As a result of this course, teachers will:

• Examine the key components often overlooked for a complete physical education experience.
• Assess the impact of various resources: video, instrument, and smartphone based. 
• Apply effective strategies for providing opportunities to experience the use of those resources.

• Explore a variety of applications that can help school students monitor, plan and analyze their nutrition, sleeping, fitness levels.
• Create a plan for the effective implementation of various resources to provide a holistic experience for each and every student.