All the elementary PE teachers are really focusing on assessment this year. We are looking at where we are in terms of assessment, where we want to be, and how we get there. Because of this, I changed my PDP to focus on assessment and implementing new assessment techniques in class. My current PDP is now:
"I want to incorporate various assessments into our lessons by following our "Assessment Schedule." These assessments will cover all three domains (psychomotor, cognitive, and affective), while focusing on psychomotor. Today we began these assessments with our 3rd grade classes and our 1st grade classes. I felt that all the PE teachers were worried about using checklists for skills because we don't want to include skill testing at the elementary level (since they are so new to these skills and are just being exposed). However I believe that this assessment improves my teaching and specifically my feedback. It is a more focused way to give feedback to my students and I now have a hard copy of who can do which skill. By the end of the year, I should know that all the students can do the skills that were designated for their grade level. This has become a more formal way to give feedback, along with keeping records and holding myself accountable that every student should be able to do their grade level skills. At the very least, when the 5th graders leave us in the spring, they should have a checklist of all the elementary skills and hopefully they all should be checked off. So, so far, so good!
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