Smart PE: Grading and Assessments Deb Van Klei Stillwater Area Public Schools HealthyMOVES PEP grant coordinator

Why do we assess? Used to monitor, reinforce, and plan for student learning Plan curriculum Plan daily lessons Communicate with parents Identify children with special needs Evaluate the program’s effectiveness Brainstorm

Types of assessments What types are you using and how? MVPA: steps Heart Zones Points: Training Load Student Projects Allows students to create new movement strategies from learned material Portfolios Allows for representative collection of a student’s work over time Intent is to involve students in assessment and have ownership of what goes into portfolio Event Tasks- Asks students to create something during a single instructional period Gymnastics routine, playing a game, dance routines, warm-up routine Student Logs / Journals- Provide the opportunity to personalize the PE experience Effective for assessing affective domain Brainstorm a list

Standards Based assessments 5 National Standards in Physical Education MN standards and benchmarks Minnesota still has 6 (based on old 2008 national standards) Data drives decisions- health and physical activity

Using National PE standards to determine what we will assess Elementary-48 benchmarks Standard 1- 27 benchmarks Standard 2- 5 benchmarks Standard 3- 6 benchmarks Standard 4- 6 benchmarks Standard 5- 4 benchmarks Middle School- 68 benchmarks Standard 1- 25 benchmarks Standard 2- 13 benchmarks Standard 3- 18 benchmarks Standard 4- 7 benchmarks Standard 5- 6 benchmarks High School—29 benchmarks Standard 1- 3 benchmarks Standard 2- 4 benchmarks Standard 3- 14 benchmarks Standard 4- 5 benchmarks Standard 5- 4 benchmarks

Meaningful assessments Fitness testing Skills testing Formative(exit slips etc) Summative Cognitive, physical, participation

Types of assessments Show a variety of assessment Use skill videos Use pedometer spreadsheets or step trackers Use csv files from Heart Zones System Peer assessments Personal Best assessments

Rubrics in 4 easy steps Step 1: Plan and design you units one at a time, week-by-week Step 2: Choose one or two things you want your students to know, understand and be able to do by the end of the unit Step 3: Determine how many levels your rubrics will have and what they will be called Step 4: Write your performance descriptors Share the pelinks4u article

Purpose of a Rubric Purposes of Rubrics: 1. Help teacher define excellence and plan how to help students achieve it. 2. Communicates to students what constitutes excellence 3. Communicates goals and results to parents 4. Helps other teachers be accurate , unbiased in scoring 5. Maintains instructional alignment

Using data to transform learning Data is powerful-objective not subjective Powerful for student engagement Powerful for teacher engagement Powerful for parent engagement Powerful for community engagement

Using technology to help you Plickers Google forms Using Autocrat

What is it we are trying to accomplish? Physically literate students Kids who fall in love with movement Teacher engagement

Baby steps- how to get there Backwards mapping Identifying Essential Learner Outcomes and Learning Targets

Questions

Resources National PE standards book PE metrics Smart PE: Heart Rate Monitors and Step trackers for Physical Education http://www.thephysicaleducator.com/ http://thepegeek.com/ http://physedagogy.com/welcome-to-physedagogy/