Aaron Hart
US Games/OPEN
OPEN Curriculum Coach Certification Program
Become a certified OPEN Curriculum Coach – for FREE. OPEN is the world’s fastest growing physical education program. This workshop provides a sustainable way for local districts to provide quality OPEN Professional Development to all physical education teachers.
In order to promote the sustainability of local Online Physical Education Network (OPEN) Curriculum implementations, the OPEN National Training Team has designed this Curriculum Coach Development Program to prepare physical educators for peer-centered cooperative professional development.
In cooperation California AHPERD, the OPEN National Training Group will conduct a free 3-hour workshop to prepare and certify OPEN Curriculum Coaches to return to their local districts and conduct ongoing peer-centered OPEN Professional Development.
This train-the-trainer program will focus on the following educational themes:
1)Understanding backward design and outcomes-based curriculum development and implementation
2)Implementing academic rigor strategies in the physical education classroom
3)Using academic language tools to meet student learning objectives
Thursday 9:00 am - 12 noon
Exhibit Hall A1 & A2
Become a certified OPEN Curriculum Coach – for FREE. OPEN is the world’s fastest growing physical education program. This workshop provides a sustainable way for local districts to provide quality OPEN Professional Development to all physical education teachers.
In order to promote the sustainability of local Online Physical Education Network (OPEN) Curriculum implementations, the OPEN National Training Team has designed this Curriculum Coach Development Program to prepare physical educators for peer-centered cooperative professional development.
In cooperation California AHPERD, the OPEN National Training Group will conduct a free 3-hour workshop to prepare and certify OPEN Curriculum Coaches to return to their local districts and conduct ongoing peer-centered OPEN Professional Development.
This train-the-trainer program will focus on the following educational themes:
1)Understanding backward design and outcomes-based curriculum development and implementation
2)Implementing academic rigor strategies in the physical education classroom
3)Using academic language tools to meet student learning objectives
Thursday 9:00 am - 12 noon
Exhibit Hall A1 & A2
High Speed Games that Promote Academic Rigor
Return to school with a set of high-speed games that will move your students and wow your administrators. This session will infuse the academic rigor concepts of backward design, academic language, and depth of knowledge into fun and vigorous games that students love.
We want students to move and sweat. We also know that we are teaching valuable skills and concepts. This session will help you talk and walk the language behind academic rigor so that your administration will see much more than sweaty and happy students.
We’ll start with backward design. All games in this session are learning activities in disguise. Student targets are standards and outcomes-based with formative assessments that will help guide your ongoing instruction.
Next, we’ll blend in the academic language of physical education in order to build students’ functional vocabularies both in and out of physical education.
Finally, we’ll demonstrate student growth using depth of knowledge tiered question stems. As blood flows to the brain, we’ll expand student thinking with meaningful discussion sessions and exit slips.
At the end of this session participants will:
1)Integrate academic rigor concepts in the physical education classroom.
2)Understand the importance of backward design in the planning process.
3)Be able to find free resources to help increase the rigorous nature of their physical education programs.
Saturday 10:30 - 11:30 am
Ballroom A & B
Return to school with a set of high-speed games that will move your students and wow your administrators. This session will infuse the academic rigor concepts of backward design, academic language, and depth of knowledge into fun and vigorous games that students love.
We want students to move and sweat. We also know that we are teaching valuable skills and concepts. This session will help you talk and walk the language behind academic rigor so that your administration will see much more than sweaty and happy students.
We’ll start with backward design. All games in this session are learning activities in disguise. Student targets are standards and outcomes-based with formative assessments that will help guide your ongoing instruction.
Next, we’ll blend in the academic language of physical education in order to build students’ functional vocabularies both in and out of physical education.
Finally, we’ll demonstrate student growth using depth of knowledge tiered question stems. As blood flows to the brain, we’ll expand student thinking with meaningful discussion sessions and exit slips.
At the end of this session participants will:
1)Integrate academic rigor concepts in the physical education classroom.
2)Understand the importance of backward design in the planning process.
3)Be able to find free resources to help increase the rigorous nature of their physical education programs.
Saturday 10:30 - 11:30 am
Ballroom A & B
What’s My Job? Professional Growth and Accountability
The role of the physical education teacher is being examined like never before. Teacher assessment rubrics and accountability measures that are designed for classroom-based instruction are being forced into the physical education environment. In this session will explore and discuss what in which physical education professionals can define their own destiny while speaking the same language as district administrators.
This session provides guidance to physical education teachers with respect to current trends and requirements for professional growth and accountability.
The first critical concept explored is teacher reflection. We’ll discuss two types of teacher reflection, how reflections shapes practice, and how to improve reflection practices for personal and professional growth.
Next we’ll explore a common framework for teaching evaluation (Danielson), how it relates directly to physical education, and how teachers can embrace 4 domains of teaching in order to plan for and experience accelerated professional growth, while mastering accountability measures put in place by their school systems.
Participants in this session will:
1)Experience and understand the importance of reflection as a part of a holistic professional growth plan
2)Examine evaluation frameworks and how these tools relate to physical education
3)Examine four domains of teaching: 1) Planning & Preparation; 2) Classroom Environment; 3) Instructional Practices; 4) Professional Responsibilities
Friday 2:45 - 3:45 pm
San Thomas/Lawrence
The role of the physical education teacher is being examined like never before. Teacher assessment rubrics and accountability measures that are designed for classroom-based instruction are being forced into the physical education environment. In this session will explore and discuss what in which physical education professionals can define their own destiny while speaking the same language as district administrators.
This session provides guidance to physical education teachers with respect to current trends and requirements for professional growth and accountability.
The first critical concept explored is teacher reflection. We’ll discuss two types of teacher reflection, how reflections shapes practice, and how to improve reflection practices for personal and professional growth.
Next we’ll explore a common framework for teaching evaluation (Danielson), how it relates directly to physical education, and how teachers can embrace 4 domains of teaching in order to plan for and experience accelerated professional growth, while mastering accountability measures put in place by their school systems.
Participants in this session will:
1)Experience and understand the importance of reflection as a part of a holistic professional growth plan
2)Examine evaluation frameworks and how these tools relate to physical education
3)Examine four domains of teaching: 1) Planning & Preparation; 2) Classroom Environment; 3) Instructional Practices; 4) Professional Responsibilities
Friday 2:45 - 3:45 pm
San Thomas/Lawrence