Because of the extensive number of links, the most important are signified with a *1* sign. These also cover the widest array of Certification Standards. Be sure your course work reflects your having learned from these sites.

*1* Either develop and answer an essential question for each section of the course, or use and re-use the following "ESSENTIAL MEGA-QUESTION": IN WHAT WAYS MIGHT YOU USE (selected) TEACHING STRATEGIES TO TEACH THE SUBJECT MATTER (selected) FROM THE RESOURCES BELOW? [A "rubric" for this question: Use Individual Brainstorming to list at least five items, each indicating both content and strategy. Try to "think outside the box" in your ideas, and then * star what you regard as the best idea(s) for each section.]

READINGS

Readings, as with most work in this course, are individualized by your choice. Consider the choices at these links, and order any you wish to be part of your course and professional development work.

*1* P.E. Program Texts Other new reading of your choice may be selected.

*1* Keep a running Journal commentary on responses to your individual reading, and to the sites below you find most useful.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION 1: HOW MIGHT WE PREPARE for COMING STANDARDS and FRAMEWORKS for PHYS.ED.?

Teachers in many subjects in this decade must keep an eye toward standards and discuss with each other how best to prepare students to take standardized tests, particularly the high stakes tests being required for high school graduation in many states. You may need to have your own copy of standards for the state where you teach, available from the Department of Education in your state. Phys.Ed. teachers and professionals in some states are addressing Standards. Use these links to consider what has been done, particulary in British Columbia, Canada. See if you can find advantages to organizing P.E. around such Standards, and reflect on this in your Journal, with supporting web reprints filed in your Portfolio.

1. National Phys.Ed. Standards
2. Physical Education K-7 Learning Outcomes
3. *1* Physical Education 8 to 10 Learning Outcomes
4. *1* Physical Education 11-12 Learning Outcomes
5. K-7 P.E. Integrated Resource Package
6. P.E. 8-10 Integrated Resource Package
7. P.E. STANDARDS
8. *1* Rubrics From the Staff Room for Ontario Teachers Note the Phys.Ed. section of rubrics that aid in clearer assessment of and by students!

*1* Work out your views on assessment in a brief paper, written as a Draft Proposal to your department. Include this in your notebook.

Advanced Level Challenge:

Based on links from any single or combination of sections of course work, develop a WEB QUEST you can use with your classes. My web page, *1* QUESTING the WEB: Web Quests as Essential Questions, gives further examples of this format.

Since a Web Quest is a series of linked web pages, you may want to begin with HOW TO CREATE WEB PAGES. Also take note of the *1* Examples of Student-Produced Web Quests, and especially, *1* Think Quest projects for your subject area!

ESSENTIAL QUESTION 2: WHAT DO I MAKE OF THE CURRENT STATE OF PHYS. ED.?

Essential Questions are not Right-or-Wrong choices, and this, as many, calls for your best thinking and viewpoint. The following links will give you three CENTRAL Web Sites worth bookmarking and checking regularly. They are:

*1* P.E. Links 4U, and

*1* P.E. Central

*1* Physical Education & Sports from Big Chalk

**Lastly, two positive yet difficult directions for school-wide, positive, productive reform are 1) Small Schools By Choice, meaning breaking big schools down into "houses" or "clusters" of 70-120 students each. This helps students and teachers to know each other better--and results in higher attendance, achievement, and less violence. Smaller school units also make it easier to bring about 2) *1* Parent and Family Engagement as a Reform Strategy. Give consideration to both of these dimensions of reform in this essential question.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION 3: WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE LEVEL I TEACH PHYS.ED.?

1. *1* ELEMENTARY P.E.
2. *1* Cooperative Games and Activities
3. *1* Teaching Middle School Physical Education
4. *1* Secondary Physical Education
5. *1* Professional Links from Massachusetts P.E./Health Professional Group
6. *1* Sports and Recreation

ESSENTIAL QUESTION 4: HOW IS THE INTERNET BEING USED IN PHYS.ED., and HOW MIGHT I USE IT?
Part 1--WEB PAGES

In this two part inquiry, see what you can discover and use from the uses of the Web for Phys.Ed. teachers, both from teacher-produced web pages and from states' lesson plans and resources sites (Part 2). Use your Journal to list what you want to/can use. Star what you think are the best ideas, and reprint resources for a supporting file.

1. *1* K-12 School PE Web Sites
2. *1*Physical Educators' Web Ring 61 Personal P.E. Web Pages
3. *1* TOOLS: Games, Activities, etc.!
4. *1* Library In the Sky PHYS. ED.! Over 50 sites!
5. *1* Skewl P.E. SITES Primary, Intermediate and Secondary!
6. Farmington Middle School P.E. Home Page Awesome P.E. school web page!
7. How To Create Web Pages Take a shot at creating your own personal or department web page. It's easier than you'd think!

PART 2: LESSON PLANS and Other Resources for Teachers

1. *1* Physical Education Lesson Plans Outstanding Site!
2. *1* Unit Plans and Games
3. from FLORIDA
   
4. from WASHINGTON
   
5. from TEXAS
   
6. from MICHIGAN
   
7. a second site from FLORIDA
   
8. from PENNSYLVANIA
   
9. from IOWA
   
10. from NEW YORK
    
11. from ILLINOIS
    
12. from COLORADO
    
13. from CONNECTICUT

ESSENTIAL QUESTION 5: HOW CAN WE BEST HELP STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INCLUDED IN OUR CLASSES?

Inclusion, students' right to be placed in the "least restrictive" educational setting, brings new opportunities to Phys. Ed. Teaching. Survey and probe the links from these sites in working out your answer to this essential question.
*1* Write your ideas in the form of a Letter/Proposal to the School Board.

1. *1* Adapted Physical Education Resources for adapting to Inclusion
2. *1* The Brain Gym Connection Use of movement to overcome learning disabilities
3. Brain Gym
   
4. ONE BRAIN
   
5. ADD/ADHD and Brain Gym
6. *1* The Academic Areas of P.E. Includes Adapted P.E., Outdoor Adventure Ed., and several other areas
7. *1* Outdoor Adventure

ESSENTIAL QUESTION 6: COACHING: WHAT CAN I GET FROM THE WEB?

Survey and probe these nine sites to see what there is of value to you and your colleagues. *1* Then compose a letter with supporting web reprints, to suggest how sites you select could be used.

1. *1* Youth Sports Coaching Web Resources Superb, Varied, Rich site!!
2. *1* National Coaching Consensus All Sports!
3. Coaching & Sports
4. *1* Basketball Coaching - In Search of Excellence
5. Links for Basketball Coaches
6. Basketball Team Play Rubric
7. Coaching Youth Sports
8. *1* SoccerCoaching.Net Links
9. *1* SOCCER-COACH-L Basic Coaching Manual Amazing! Like having an on-line mentor.
10. *1* ThinkQuest Sports and Recreation
11. Sports Safety A word to the wise...

Essential Question 7: Considering the following "EXTRA TOPICS" sites, how might you make science more relevant and reach more students? Particularly, through a) working with parents and families, b)using alternative assessment to help students learn more, c) confronting the dilemma of depth vs. coverage. d) teaching the gifted and talented, the learning disabled, and English Language learners likely to be in your classes via "inclusion", e) coping with challenges of (beginning) teaching, including mastering the dynamics of questioning, and f) helping students with career planning and transition to life after high school.

1. Working With Parents: What Parents Should Do, What Is the Teacher's Role
2. Teacher Web.com -- A fast and easy way to create a great connection to students and parents. You can use many of the links you find in this course!
3. **Rubrics! Great site to help you evaluate students most fairly and to help them learn to self-evaluate in all subjects!
4. Depth vs. Coverage in Teaching and Preparing Students for Standardized Tests
5. Teaching Gifted and Talented Students
6. Teaching Strategies and Techniques -- Matched to types of diabilities students may have
7. Free Translation.com -- A site that can be used to translate handouts, tests, and texts into Spanish and several other languages
8. Teaching English Language Learners
9. Guides for New (And Not So New) Teachers
10. *1*TEACHERS ON TEACHING Discussions by classroom teachers on what they wish they'd known when they started.
11. *1*My Hero: Teacher Heroes Inspiring!
12. *1*Teacher Tools Page -- On-line tools for making quizzes, puzzles, rubrics, webquests, and more.
13. Custom Classroom -- Free tools
14. SchoolNotes.com FREE! Easily develop homework assignments and class information, posting it on the Web!

    *1***Consider, too, the importance of WAIT TIME. Most teachers ask questions at an extremely rapid rate, and average only one second of wait time after each question and after each student answer.

    When teachers increase wait time by 5 seconds, the following results occur:

    1) Longer student answers;
    2) More appropriate answers;
    3) More frequent student responses;
    4) More answers on the analysis and synthesis levels;
    5) More questions and responses from slow learners; and
    6) More confidence by students in their answers.

    An excellent site to inquire further into the dynamics of questioning and wait-time is *1*Changing the Questions.

15. Careers.org -- Resources for Job Seekers and links to numerous career information sites.
16. Exploring Careers -- Note how many of these are science-related
17. Career Paths Online

*1* **Types of Assessment

*1* **Rubrics

*1* **Assessment Resources

*1* **Phys. Ed. Rubrics - Extensive array for K-12 P.E. from Wyoming

*1* Work out your views on assessment in a brief paper, written as a Draft Proposal to your department. Include this in your notebook.

FINAL TASK

*1* Go through your Project work. Make an annotated Table of Contents for each section, and **star the sites you want to be sure to make reference to in teaching the Phys. Ed. more effectively.

*1* Describe in a brief essay how you intend to use the Internet as an instructional/learning tool in your teaching.

*1* Finally, compose an imaginary letter to a friend who has written, asking you about teaching. Tell the friend about one class based on ideas from this online course—the kinds of students you have, the work they’ve done, how you’ve evaluated them, and what you want to try to add next year.

Note the Rubric for Course Portfolio Assessment.

Mail your completed Project work to:

Chad C. Osborne
29 Pine Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93105

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