Maintaining Engagement while Exercising | 通过练习保持参与度

Throughout the past months of e-learning, teachers have been working very hard to keep students engaged – PE teachers included. With a subject that mainly requires physical contact like PE, especially with younger students, our teachers have applied their ingenuity in how they plan their lessons to ensure that our YCIS Beijing learners remain focused and involved during online classes.

The approach to e-Teaching for Kevin Meng, Primary PE teacher, has been to introduce a topic theoretically to students first, then end it by demonstrating what students should do. “After learning the essentials of the movement, students will perform the exercise a number of times as homework and send it to me through photos or videos.”  Once this is done, he finishes off by giving feedback.

For Shannon Speight, Athletics Coordinator & Primary PE Teacher, putting many of the students’ differing situations into consideration, has been the key to ensuring that each learner is catered to, “availability of equipment, indoor space for activity, outdoor access, internet connectivity, family engagement and time zone conflicts” are some of the factors she has had to consider before planning and teaching an online lesson.

Each teacher’s approach has been with the goal of getting students to be optimally engaged in each lesson and both have used different strategies to achieve this. In Miss Speight’s lessons, she “combined fun online exercise videos with teacher led activities as well.  Since I teach Year 1-Year 3, I believe students prefer high energy, colorful, animated videos to follow during the lessons.”  In addition to these activities, she has also created some home fitness challenges to be completed in the week.

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Both teachers encourage video and image sharing as a motivator for students and for class morale after every lesson –one way in which they leverage the technology available to them. According to Mr Meng, “taking a good video in advance has helped in saving time for in- class demonstrations. At the same time, I can share my lesson plans with my students.” Miss Speight echoes the sentiment and adds that being online has also given her an opportunity to engage with parents as well about what activities to do.

”At the end of each lesson, I offer a question and answer session for all of the students and parents.  The Zoom platform enables me to receive feedback from students about which activities they really enjoyed (and want to be included in future lessons).”

By doing this, teachers are ensuring that their students’ needs are prioritized and they remain flexible, as opposed having a static approach to teaching.

Miss Speight and Mr Meng have used their imaginations to keep students involved in the comfort of their homes and with no special sports equipment needed! Below are some household items they have used in their online classes:

- Replaced markers with paper cups, toilet paper, water bottles and other easy-to-find household goods,

- Used plastic bags instead of a volleyball

- Used cartons instead of a football to practice stepping on the ball

- Used household items to create indoor obstacle courses

- Other items, such as, toys, towels, and shoes have been included in some of the other Minute to Win It style activities.

While using some of these at-home props, parents can do the following exercises with their children;

- Stretching, lunges, push-ups, jumping jacks, squats, planks, wall sits, high jumps, etc.

- Design an obstacle course using basic movement skills such as running, hopping, galloping, jumping, etc.  You can also make it into a race!

- Online exercise videos: I really enjoy the websites GoNoodle (www.gonoodle.com ) and P.E. with Joe Wicks (www.thebodycoach)

- As long as they are following social distance rules, kids can simply go outside and play!  Free play is one of the most fun and effective ways to get their recommended daily physical activity.

To read more tips about how to keep active while on lockdown, click here.

在过去几个月的在线学习中，老师们一直非常努力地让学生参与进来——体育老师也不例外。对于像体育这样主要需要身体接触的学科，我们的老师们运用他们的聪明才智来安排课程，以确保北京耀中的学生在在线课程中保持专注和参与度，特别是低年级学生的体育课。

小学体育教师Kevin Meng在线教学的方法是首先从理论上向学生介绍一个课题，然后给学生做出示范动作。“在学习完动作要领后，学生们会把这个动作作为家庭作业练习很多次，并通过照片或视频发给我。”作业一发过来，他就会给出反馈。

体育运动协调员、小学体育老师Shannon Speight根据学生的不同情况制定计划，确保满足每个学生的需要,“设备的可用性,室内的活动空间,室外空间的使用、网络的连通性,家庭的参与度和时区冲突”这些都是她在规划和教授在线课程前不得不考虑的因素。

每位老师的教学方法都是让学生充分参与到每节课的学习中来，并且都使用了不同的策略来达到这一目的。在Speight小姐的课程中，她“结合了有趣的在线锻炼视频和教师主导的活动”。因为我教的是一到三年级，我相信学生们更喜欢精力充沛、色彩鲜艳、生动活泼的视频。除了这些活动，她还创造了一些要求在一周内完成的家庭健身挑战。

两位老师都鼓励学生在每节课结束后分享视频和图片，以此来激励学生并鼓舞课堂士气——这也是让学生利用科技手段的一种方式。根据Meng先生的说法，“提前拍摄一段好的视频有助于节省课堂演示的时间。”同时，我可以与我的学生分享我的课程计划。Speight女士回应了这一观点，并补充说，网课也给了她一个与家长交流的机会，让她知道该做些什么。

“每节课结束时，我都会为所有学生和家长提供一个问答环节。Zoom平台能让我收到学生们的反馈，告诉我他们真正喜欢哪些活动(以及希望在未来的课程中加入哪些活动)。”

通过这样做，教师们优先确保学生的需求，保持灵活，而不是以一成不变的方法教学。

Speight女士和Meng先生运用他们的想象力让学生们待在舒适的家里，并且不需要特殊的运动器材!以下是他们在在线课堂上使用过的一些家居用品:

-      用纸杯、卫生纸、水瓶和其他容易找到的家用物品代替马克笔，

-      用塑料袋代替排球，

-      用纸箱代替足球练习踩球

-      用家居用品建造室内障碍训练场

-      其他物品，如玩具、毛巾和鞋子被用于其他一些决战一分钟型的活动中。

在使用这些家庭道具的同时，父母可以和他们的孩子做以下练习;

-    伸展、弓步、俯卧撑、开合跳、蹲坐、平板支撑、靠墙坐、跳高等。

-    设计一个障碍课程应用基本的运动技能，如跑步，单足跳，飞奔，跳跃等，你也可以把它做为一个比赛!

-    在线锻炼视频:我非常喜欢GoNoodle (www.gonoodle.com)和跟着Joe Wicks上体育课网站 (www.thebodycoach)。

-    孩子们在保持社交距离的前提下可以出去玩!自由活动是最有趣和有效的方式之一，可以达到每日推荐的运动量。

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