Andrew Morris

PLC Department Meeting

At the beginning of the school year, the entire Physical Education Department sat down during our first PLC and decided what sports we wanted to cover this year. (based off equipment we have available)

Once we had those decided then we talked about which standards/assessments we wanted to cover for each.(we have a PLC every week to go over how these went, was it good or does it need to change for next time)

Obtaining State Standards

Choosing a standard for Flag Football was interesting because there were some good options. However, as a department we came along these two.

High School Course 1:

1.3 Identify, explain, and apply the skill-related components of balance, reaction time, agility, coordination, explosive power, and speed that enhances performance levels in aquatic, rhythms/dance, and individual and dual activites.

High School Course 3C:

1.4 Identify and apply the principles of biomechanics necessary for the safe and successful performance of individual and dual activities.

Deciding which assessments to use

Formative Assessments:

Decided on two ways;

1. Cognitive- seeing when I ask a question if the student can answer it correctly.
   
2. Psychomotor- seeing if the students are conducting the correct skills as they were taught.
   

Summative Evaluations:

Consists of throwing, catching and holding of a football. Also, I will be measuring students ability to run the correct nine routes that were developed in the route tree. Lastly, students ability to showcase knowledge inside a game setting of how to defend the opponents gameplan.

I chose these because I believe it really covers everything that I want inside these lessons and overall unit.

Which skills corralate with standard/assessments

Throwing

Catching

Holding of a Football

Flag Pulling

Route Running

Defense Strategies

Offense Strategies

Development of the Unit plan

Once I have everything above on paper then I can start to develop the overall unit. In doing so, I can basically create a stepping stone platform that allows the students to continue their knowledge and growth as it progress in order. Essentially, the way I think about it is like an A-Z thing.

Development of the lesson plans

Since I already had the state standards, assessments, and skills I wanted to cover. All I needed was to now create the lesson plans. Couple things left were the “Theory Applied” and after reading L.D. Webb, I find exactly what I was looking for and the objectives.

Developing the objectives:

Objectives need to be measurable, obtainable, and clear/specific statements.

Each lesson contains either one or two that I believe will go nicely with the standard, and overall goal for the lesson.

For example,

• Lesson one is Instructional Offense where students learn all the key elements and the techniques involved in flag football.
• Students will be able to demonstrate proper technique for throwing, catching, and running with a football at a 80% success rate or better.
  
• Lesson two is Receiving Route Tree where students learn offense of strategies on where to line up and where to run.
• Students will be able to identify the correct routes on the route tree at an 80% rate or better.
  
• Students will be able to demonstrate the correct route when the play is called.
• Lesson three is Defense Strategies where students learn all the defenses and how they are designed to stop certain offensive plays.
• Students will be able to identify and state which defense play defends the offensive play.
  
• Students will be able to construct each defense set looks like inside their playbook.
• Lesson Four is Game Play Strategies is the overall completeness of ways to defeat opponents plays.
• Students will be able to compare ones own plays(zone coverage or man-to-man) to their opponents routes (slants, hitch, corner, post, dig, crossing, etc) and design a counter 80% of the time or better.
  

References

Throughout this entire journey from beginning to end of creating this unit plan, I encountered some really good sources. Below are the main ones I used throughout the development.