Movement Concepts and Themes Standards-Based Unit with Lesson Plans

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We are excited about your interest in taking this Movement Concepts and Themes Standards-Based Unit with Lesson Plans Course from PE Central. Below you will find a brief course description, the instructor's biography, and course FAQ's. We estimate that this course will take 3 hours to complete. Once you have completed it, you may request the 3 hours towards your teacher licensure recertification.

We know you will find this course valuable and enjoyable. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].

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PE Central and Human Kinetics Professional Development

Course Goals:

Target Audience: We have designed this e-course for elementary physical education teachers; however, teachers from all grade levels would learn about alignment from this course. Because physical educators have first-hand experience teaching physical education content and insight into credible resources they are the perfect audience. The end result is knowledge merging from teachers (experts in their profession) sharing multiple perspectives that can be included in the Movement Concepts and Themes Unit with Lesson Plans

Course Purpose: The purpose of this e-course is to introduce physical educators to aligning key sections of a unit of study (a) content standards, (b) assessments, (c) goals, (d) objectives, and (e) instructional strategies.

Course Description: This online course will be based on an online discussion style format between the instructor and participants. A partial Movement Concepts and Themes Unit with lesson plans will be provided. Participants will use the discussion forum to share ideas with classmates that will revise and complete the partial unit of study.

To ensure the goals are met, the following template is provided:

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 Movement Concept and Themes

Each component of the template will be completed using the National Physical Education Standards that define what a student should know and be able to do as a result of a unit of study (standards-based education): http://www.shapeamerica.org/standards/pe/.

Course Objectives:

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

• Create instructional strategies that are used to reinforce skills taught and meet the objectives written for the Movement Concept and Themes 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.

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).