26C.6563.11, PE Central, PE Hacks: Tips & Strategies for Classroom Management

Course Description

This course is designed to teach teachers how to implement systems in their PE program that will provide some structure to many of the management issues that they will face during their Physical Education Classes. My hope is that after implementing what you learn in this course, you will have less management/behavior/organizational struggles and that will allow you to have more time teaching Quality PE to your students.

• Use teachable moments to avoid future issues in class
• Provide clear expectations and rules and examples to students
• Create a daily self-assessment for students that takes less than 5 minutes
• Teach students to solve their own small problems without an adult
• Help students understand how to take responsibility for their own learning in your class
• Teach students to use good sportsmanship
• Different mindset “hacks” that will help them become a better teacher
• Use music as a management tool and create awesome playlists
• Use Instant Activities as a way to engage students immediately as they walk into class and prepare them to learn
• Use stations as a teaching strategy for skill development or review
• Keep track of grades and behavior issues throughout a grading period

Reading Materials

All reading materials are available to download in the form of PDF files from within the course module. There will be several video tutorials as well.

Technology Needed to Complete

• A computer
• A Google Drive account (optional but very helpful).
• If you want to actually print the posters included in this course you will need a poster printer (or you can go to Kinkos or a similar company that prints posters)
• A Twitter account (to complete some assignments we ask you to share your thoughts on Twitter, if you don’t have a twitter account you can also share in the comments section)

Course Design/Schedule

Students can start and complete assignments any time they wish. You will have an instructor that you can contact via email or twitter for help if needed. You will not earn a letter grade from this course nor will any graduate credit be earned.