Locomotor Skills Standards-Based Unit with Lesson Plans

1.To align key sections of a physical education unit of study, with lesson plans.

2.To collaborate with “experts" in the physical education profession; those teaching in the physical education classroom.

The national push for inclusion of common core standards and assessment has created a need for teachers across curriculums to align units of study. Key sections of alignment include content standards, goals, objectives, instructional strategies, and assessments. This e-course will provide opportunities for participants to focus on alignment of these sections by generating ideas through collaboration.

Because elementary physical educators have access to the majority of our youth and have first-hand experience teaching physical education content, they are the perfect target audience for this e-course. Participants can test ideas with actual students; retaining those approved by students and discarding those unsuccessful. In addition, participants have insight into credible resources for further researching of ideas. The end result is knowledge merging from sharing of multitude of “expert" perspectives that can be included in the Locomotor Skills Unit with Lesson Plans.

Course Description:

Common core standards emphasize the importance of critical thinking; and, collaborative learning promotes critical thinking. Therefore, a discussion style learning environment was selected for this e-course (an online collaborative format).

Participants will be provided with a Locomotor Skills Unit with Lesson Plans using the following template to ensure the dual course goals written for this course are met (alignment and collaboration):

Unit
• Content Standards:
• Learning Goals:
• Resources:

Lesson plans
• Learning Objectives:
• Cues:
• Equipment:
• Organization:
• Instructional Strategies (script form):
• Differentiated Instruction

Assessments:
Learning Goals, Learning Objectives, Cues, Equipment, Organization, and Differentiated Instruction have been completed for the unit of study. Participants will be asked to revise Content Standards, Instructional Strategies, and Assessments for the unit of study. The end results will be a ready-to-use. teacher-created and student-approved Locomotor Skills Unit with Lesson Plans

Course Objectives:

On the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Recognize content standards that define what a student should know and be able to do as a result of learned content (the National Physical Education Standards are the resource for standard-based education).
• Create instructional strategies that are used to reinforce skills taught and meet the objectives written for the Locomotor Unit with Lesson Plans.
• Find or develop a sample assessment that demonstrates what students do know and can do as a result of learned content.
• Promote critical thinking skills through collaboration with peers.
• Cite credible resources used for the physical education unit of study.