Wiggins's responses:
Considering assessment before planning....I agree with this...sort of beginning with the end in mind. If you know where you want to get to in the end, it will help you design the path to get there. Not only with the topics that should be covered, but the pacing as well. You can map/chart your course to the end game.
He support technology with assessment...but this article is from 2002 and I'm not sure he'd have the same thoughts in 2025 with testing being done on iPads. Or maybe he would? Technology has its merits...it can streamline things, get data loaded quickly, etc. But I've seen it, I've lived it. Sometimes tech doesn't work. Or kids forget their device. Or they didn't charge it and it's dead. Handing out a paper and pencil is a lot more straight forward and cuts out all the complications of tech....but I think that ship has sailed and we have to embrace it at this point.
Here is my advice for a new PE teacher and the strategy I recommend. In PE, we utilize a lot of informal and visual assessment. Due to the nature of our content area, we see hundreds of student over a two day rotation. We have very large classes. We have the students up and moving the majority of the time. It is a unique content area in that many methods of traditional assessment are not made for our content area. Our positioning to be able to see and evaluate all students is vital. Circulating among the students while maintaining positioning to see all students at any given time is a skill that needs to be mastered...not only for evaluation of student performance but also in case of any accidents/emergencies etc. Taking daily shorthand notes or a quick rubric based grade is the most efficient way to assess students in PE.
Considering assessment before planning....I agree with this...sort of beginning with the end in mind. If you know where you want to get to in the end, it will help you design the path to get there. Not only with the topics that should be covered, but the pacing as well. You can map/chart your course to the end game.
He support technology with assessment...but this article is from 2002 and I'm not sure he'd have the same thoughts in 2025 with testing being done on iPads. Or maybe he would? Technology has its merits...it can streamline things, get data loaded quickly, etc. But I've seen it, I've lived it. Sometimes tech doesn't work. Or kids forget their device. Or they didn't charge it and it's dead. Handing out a paper and pencil is a lot more straight forward and cuts out all the complications of tech....but I think that ship has sailed and we have to embrace it at this point.
Here is my advice for a new PE teacher and the strategy I recommend. In PE, we utilize a lot of informal and visual assessment. Due to the nature of our content area, we see hundreds of student over a two day rotation. We have very large classes. We have the students up and moving the majority of the time. It is a unique content area in that many methods of traditional assessment are not made for our content area. Our positioning to be able to see and evaluate all students is vital. Circulating among the students while maintaining positioning to see all students at any given time is a skill that needs to be mastered...not only for evaluation of student performance but also in case of any accidents/emergencies etc. Taking daily shorthand notes or a quick rubric based grade is the most efficient way to assess students in PE.