Health/PE Seminar Liveblogging

9am: Elizabeth arrives late. She needs to get her life together.

9:05 Finished opener. I've never used that type of opener before, I look forward to implementing it into my classroom.

9:10 Go over agenda. Looks like a lot is coming our way, though I'm not sure how applicable it will be for the social studies classroom. Let's be honest, though, for months the PE/Health people have been going through things that many can't apply to their classroom. I can do some of it for a couple days.

9:27 Why doesn't PE/health get as much attention? I thought, "Clearly it's because social studies is more important." That was not the correct answer. Apparently it's because there is no testing of that PE/health content and our administrators are all about test scores since NCLB.

9:33 Students can't learn if they aren't healthy (hungry/abuse/etc). Agreed.

9:42 Kimberly's baby is making cute sounds.

9:55 Our first group activity! We're reviewing a teaching strategy...

9:57 Whoops! They don't have the group activity, so we're moving on.

10:38 The social studies (and "I'm done" Chris) table in the back is dominating the discussion. Zam! Dakota is throwing out some wisdom nuggets, so he's in competition. Come on PE!!!!

10:40 Kimberly just thought of a great interdisciplinary activity: Push-up Reading Day! Students achieve physical fitness goals while learning about the assassination of President McKinley. Holllllller.

11:06 O'Brien's up front working hard, refining his South Park Gold Cohort character list. Example:

11:26 Peacing for lunch here very soon. Now!

12:30-1:41 Wow, they just talked about rubrics for the past hour. Wtf? We learned all of this in assessment and measurement a looooooong time ago. Props to Sharon, no props to these people. Redundant and boring.