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Using Online Tools to Teach PE... and Some Google Classroom It is a tough time for all educators - having to to move to online teaching full-time. This will not be easy for teachers or students. But it will become the new normal. Learning and teaching online is something we will be doing for a while. I am currently quarantined with my brother, Bryce, and sister-in-law, Shavonne. Bryce is a PE teacher at Larkspur Middle School in Virginia Beach, VA. He is in his 4th year teaching for Virginia Beach City Public Schools. VBCPS has moved to online teaching/learning for the rest of the school year. This school district is ahead of the curve because every student has a Chromebook they use in school, and are able to take home with them Bryce has been teaching PE online for the past week and a half. He says teaching PE online has its ups and downs, but he does enjoy the online program they use to teach from. Bryce and the rest of the teachers with VBCPS have been using an online tool...

Assessment - Racing Through Space w/ Football  My assessment is all about football, of course. I used the assessment too, Socrative to build my assessment. The process was pretty simple. I went back to our other formative assessment assignment and use the questions from the Google Form. In Socrative, you can make multiple quizzes, save them, and have them ready to upload for "Launch." When you create a quiz, you have the option to format your questions as multiple-choice, true/false, or short answers. You can use all 3 in your question, or just stick to one format. For each question option, you can upload a picture and give explanations for each question - I like that you can give an explanation because it provides the student with more information about the correct answer. I choose to use multiple-choice and true/false questions. Once I created my quiz, it was saved and available for me to use as a regular quiz, space race, or exit ticket. Three different assessmen...

Formative Assessment Tool - Socrative [Space Race] In class, I mentioned an assessment tool my co-teacher and I used in our Algebra I class that we absolutely loved. I couldn't figure out the name of the tool... until I started working on this assignment. I finally found it.  Socrative It didn't take me very long to find this tool on the  Common Sense  website. I typed in  Formative Assessments  in the search bar and quickly found the Socrative tool - took me about a minute.  I would give this assessment tool four out of five stars. This assessment tool allows teachers to assess students through any mobile device while in class. This is a student response system. Teachers can create quizzes, quick questions and exit tickets for students and receive immediate results on the assessments during class time. The students submit their answers on any device, and the results show up on the teacher's computer screen.  I think this is a c...

Google Forms & Formative Assessments - More Football for Elementary School Kids  I remember using formative assessments back when I was teaching Special Education Algebra at Tallwood High School in Virginia Beach. My co-teacher and I had the students complete a 4 question exit ticket on Google Forms pertaining to the lesson that was presented that day.  We learned that formative assessments are a great way to gauge what students know, without grading them. It is a way for teachers to watch the students perform, demonstrate when necessary, and students to get better at what is being taught.   For teachers, they benefit from formative assessments in many ways. This type of assessment provides teachers with information about what the student knows. Instead of grading and counting the assessment against then, the teacher can use this information to better help the student learn. Formative assessments help teachers determine if more instructions on that pa...