Well the first assessment is in - a philosophical task on the importance of PE to education. I am really looking forward to these to see how many of the students have read and demonstrated their understanding, especially beyond the scientific. But this will also tell me about my pedagogy in this class and how I have set up the online environment. You have all seen my other posts on how I have worked on this for long periods of time, but this is where we may see some pay-off or not!
The discussion boards as the interactive mechanism with the group is starting to pay off. We have had some really great discussions with individual students about who they are and how they became physical education student-teachers. I am responding at the moment to these individually one-by-one trying to highlight a couple of points and even drawing some research into them. Is this an appropriate strategy? What do the students think about the approach presented to them? They are not really replying to one anothers posts yet. Perhaps I might need to put a reminder announcement on the importance of responding to others posts, how a discussion and clarity may come of it during the process.
The next couple of weeks will be focussed on planning. I hope this goes OK, but with only one post on their experiences in week 1 I am not sure what is going on. I have heard that some don't have the text - I wonder if this is impacting on what they are trying to achieve. Will pay attention here.
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