finale beep test

for the finale beep test for the year i had high hopes, especially after the previous beep test being botched by being blocked by other people. This time there was only 60 kids so there was no problem of that happening again. during the run i started to get horrible pain on my upper left back. I tried coping through it but had difficulty. Once we hit 5.4 for some reason I couldn't run more faster to keep up with the speed so once I had missed 2 beeps I had to pull out. It was disappointing, I knew I could go further but since I had missed 2 beeps there was nothing I could do. I knew I could easily get more. Sadly there is nothing I can do. moving on to the testing. my flexibility is level 1. Nothing different form last time. I can only jump about 15, again nothing different. My plank is 1 minuet, lower than previous times. Push ups 10(on my knees). Balance board 10 seconds. T test is 12 seconds, Really no improvement from before, I had improvement in things like the pond run and t A B partners. I really thought I would have got better. This was a disappointing way to end the year. 

final post 2015

Final Portfolio Assessment "Report Card" Post - Active Learning 2015

There are Four pillars to provide evidence (screen shots + links) for, each worth 25%.

For report card posts in grades 8/9 we are legally required to provide a letter grade.

In 10-12 we need an actual percentage to go along with the more meaningful formative writing, so after discussing your semester you will need to put a NUMBER evaluation on it.

As a way to help you organize your thoughts, the following breakdown for the "four pillars" and thematic questions can be used, but you may move beyond these in your explanation.

1) Participation- this category includes all of the factors around your ability to participate and the quality of your participation of in-class activities. Some things to consider would include: attendance and punctuality, wearing gym strip (actual change of clothing from what you wear the rest of the day),  physical presence/activity level during games, intensity of participation, "skill level" in various games, and the motivation behind your selection of activities on choice days. Missing “sometimes” or having “no strip” more than once or twice may result in a failing mark here. Use ALL of the above categories in your evaluation. If you try hard "sometimes", and forgot your strip a "couple of times", and needed encouragement from your teacher to work harder "once or twice" you are not an A student… in fact you are not even a B student in this category. Think carefully about each category.

2) Social Responsibility and Contribution to the Class- this category includes all of the factors that led to your improving skills around working with peers to make everyone's experience more successful. Some things to consider would include: examples of leadership (organizing others, encouraging peers), examples of initiative (helping with equipment, helping with other classes WITHOUT being asked to), positive energy and social dynamic during activities, honesty during competition and on fitness scores, and connections with the community/volunteering. Needing reminders from a teacher to do the above items negates their impact. If you need to talked to, you didn’t do well.

3) Healthy Living - this category includes all aspects of your past, current, and future data and goals on your health and fitness. Some of the things to consider would include: your actual fitness scores compared to others and what they teach you, noteworthy changes in your fitness, some of the barriers/limitations you face in participating, dietary choices and extra curricular activity choices and their impact on overall health, injury prevention, management, and rehabilitation, and future plans/goals for overall health choices. This is the connecting piece between class and life… if you have no evidence of choices/activities outside of class you should be failing this section. One major focus should be evidence of choices that specifically relate to the body goal you set. If you have never worked at your goal outside of class you should not be passing this section.

4) Digital Portfolio and Reflective skills: this category includes all aspects of your blog posts. Some of the things to consider would include: the total collection of digital evidence and number of posts, the quality of the selection of evidence as a demonstration of learning, the quality of the summaries/explanation of the evidence (with reflection of effort, new learning cited, research included, and future goals/plans set), the usefulness of comments on peers blog entries as a part of socially constructed learning and assessment, and your ability to synthesize your entries into a summative final post which provides evidence for your learning. Neufeld’s classes should have: videos of weight room workouts from YouTube or the Internet, videos or other evidence of themselves in the weight room doing those same workouts, images and video of fitness and games, reflections about diet with evidence of meals, evidence of exercise outside of school, a reflective post about the quality of your blog as compared to others, multiple posts about your fitness scores on testing days (beep, vertical), a mid term post, a final post, at least one post with evidence of social responsibility choices you make in class, plus others.

We have worked very hard to create opportunities for you to learn about being intrinsically motivated, to learn about and find value in personalizing your experience to best suite your own physical needs, and we have devalued the external motivators like grades as a reason for being your best. However, along with our legal obligations, we would like to have you understand the spirit of what grades are supposed to reflect, and rather than having your "stories" be excuses for unfair teacher assessed grades, have them be your evidence for co-constructed grading. To do this you need to be honest about the four pillars of learning and how well you approached each of them.

While they are not set at 25% each, if you have minimal evidence for one or more of the pillars this should signal to you that you were NOT successful in that area, which would then be reflected in you self assessed final grade. 

Neufeld classes should have at minimum (3-5 fitness testing days stats and reflections, 2 personal goal setting posts with research links to appropriate workouts, 3 or more goal of the day workouts, 5 fitness day activity reviews and reflections, 3 or more sport day activities and leadership/participation review, a midterm post, a diet post, an extra curricular activity post, and this FINAL post)

Your final post should have evidence The goal here is for you to be able to critically and honestly see yourself within the context of the pillars and the class. Nobody is perfect and nobody is without hope... finding yourself in the middle will be more rewarding than anything I as a teacher can ever say about you. Good luck!!

1. I feel I always give my best. I give 100% and nothing less. I have always been on time and the only time I have been away was when I went to India. I have forgotten my strip 2 times but that was when we had joint band speed ball and the first buddies I went to. During fitness day I try my hardest and when it is game day I also try my hardest even though I am not good at whatever we are doing. Even when i was injured (I fell down during one of the joint fitness days with the other band) I still kept going. I have shown this in my blog with pictures and videos. I feel i deserve a B (78%) in this category.

2. For social responsibility I believe at the start I wasn't really organizing much but I was encouraging others. I cheered on others whenever I could. Later on in the year I started to set up and organize and take down. One time I had organized CTF with others in the band. I brought in the equipment with help of course. And help organize the game and getting the attention of the other kids and enforcing the rules and try to make the game fun for others. Whenever we play speed ball I always stay defense because I know that nobody will stay and try to help out whoever is in goal so they do not feel overwhelmed and fell that they are not having a good time. I always try to keep a smile whenever we do fitness days to show others it is not bad. And whenever someone is struggling I say come on you should be faster than me you are fitter. Also I am always honest every day in class. I volunteer at my local temple and help out whenever I can. I feel that i should deserve a B (75%).

3. Health wise I am not exactly healthy, I need a lot of improvement. My fitness scores were the same from the year before in the first half, in fact pretty low. Once I started to run I got faster and lasted longer. My scores were better and I felt that there was much more that could be easily improved by me continually running. I could run faster on the pond run and do a faster rate at the locomotion. I also could squeeze in more reps than ever before. My beep test scores were always disappointing since whenever I ran there so many people I always was stuck behind someone and had to run faster than I should and crapped out earlier than I would, resulting in subpar results. I knew that these scores never reflected me since that you said when we ran around the lower field and had to get in a group. You said if you had a low score you run 1 minuet on and off. I had the low score you were describing but I felt I could do more. I paired up with Arjun and Conner. Conner was slower so I could never run at my full potential. This was a huge confidence boost; I felt there was much more that I could do. My parents say my diet isn’t healthy, so they are now controlling it and telling me what to eat. I have been running cardio and doing body weight training which has given me surprising results. If I keep going with it I will reach my goal of losing weight and getting fitter. I feel I deserve a 78%, a B.

4. My digital portfolio wasn’t good at all, I basically was failing. Before I left for India I started to post more than before and posted about home workouts. I have posted numerous posts about fitness tests score, evidence during fitness days, and evidence about home workouts. I only went to the weight room once and Arjun has not sent me anything regarding that day ever since, and I am embarrassed about my meals being online for everyone to see. I have commented on other blogs many times and have included my goals on the blog as well. My blog quality is not the best or even near the best, I believe it is good enough to get me a 70%. Yes I have not posted a picture of my meals; yes I do not have a single weight room post. I have excuses, you don’t have to believe and take marks away. But I think I do deserve a 70%. 

parent post

As we move away from singular reporting through papers mailed home to parents and into real time feedback through reflections and commenting on our digital media… the role of the report card is changing. We just finished a midterm AND interim assessment process with very few classes in between, so I thought I would try something new this time around.

Instead of you as a student doing a self assessment, I want to see what your parents think about your progress. Obviously they are not present in class, but they do see you at home and they can read your blog. So I want you to get them to write a guest post on your PE blog. Have them answer the following questions in their post. Feel free to let them ad lib and add evidence or ideas that they deem important after they answer the questions. TIme to put the show on the other foot for a bit. :)

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO:

1) Have you read your son/daughters blog? Was there anything that surprised you or stood out immediately? What was your favourite part about reading his/her reflections? What did you learn about your son/daughter that you didn't know before reading the blog? What part of your child's growth/personality has been reaffirmed for you? What is missing in the blog that you think s/he should include for the teacher or peers? If you were evaluating him/her on his/her blogging efforts, what would you say? What would you give him/her out of 25? How did you come up with that number?

HEALTHY LIVING:

2) What do you notice about your child's health choices outside of school? What activity and or diet choices does s/he make on their own? What exercise/eating choices are encouraged buy the family/household? Did you see any evidence of this in his/her blog? What is missing that should be included? What improvements do you think your child could/should make to further his/her understanding and participation in his/her own health? What things can you as parent do to push this learning/practice? If you were to evaluate your son/daughter on their progress towards personal healthy life choices what would you say? What mark would you give them out of 25 for his/her efforts and demonstration of those efforts in the blog? How did you come up with that number


Yes i did had the chance to read Gurjap's blog. No actually i knew what he was doing for his weight loss and fitness, but the he discribed on his blog that i really like. I really like the way he was expaining about treadmill routine and enthusiasm. I did not knew before reading his blog that he really like to contibute to his daily fitness. He is a focused kid and in his blog he showed again that how focus was he on his fitness. I think Gurjap pretty much covered everything in his blog for his teacher and peers. I think he did fabulous on his blog efferts. I would give him 25 out of 25, because i was very impressed with his blog.

I think Gurjap needs to put more efforts in choosing his daily nutrients. He goes to the treadmill for the excercise almost daily, but needs to choose more healthy diet. His dad encourage him for even more harder excercise and i push him to eat healthier. I did not see any evidence in his blog. I don't think that anything is missing from his blog. The only thing that comes to my mind is healthy eating habits need improvement. I prepare his meals so i just use my power to make him eat healthy foods ;)
I think he needs to keep doing whatever he is doing for his health. I would give him 23 out of 25, the reason is healthy eating habbits. 

Finale Home fitness post?

with the current situation of finals and provincials coming up, my exercise sessions will be few and far in between. And will only pickup again after school is over. This means that I can't post much about it anymore. There is a possibility I might be able to squeeze one in but highly unlikely.  Since this might be the final post about home fitness I will just talk about what I learned over the year. When I first started I had a goal, which was to lose weight for my brother's wedding in India. All I did was run on a constant speed on a constant incline for an hour and did core training right after. During this period I learned how if I went at it everyday I would eventually improve. meaning after a short while I would have to increase speed and incline until it became difficult again. I did this about 5 times throughout the short period i had. I went from 4 speed and 4 incline to 4.5 speed to 9 incline. I could have went even more but it was already too late since it was time to go to India. my parents said there was a huge improvement in my weight. I lost weight. I even noticed improvement in my overall fitness. I could go faster than before and last longer. I felt good about myself and I knew I could improve more with time if I did this everyday. After coming back, I was a little sick and had to sit out for a while. When I was all better I was out of the previous groove I had, so I had to push myself to get back on. But  when I finally started again I quickly got back to the original enthusiasm. I felt like doing more and more, I was even more excited than before. I thought why not do some cardio training, so I introduce a regime similar to 1 minuet on and off. Originally I started with the program in the treadmill but ditched it for doing it my way. I did the same frequency as the treadmill but with more speed and incline. The top speed and incline in the program was 4 and 9. when I did it was 4.5 and 12. With the old regime before leaving I lost 600 calories, with the new one I lost 1000. As time went on i noticed I wasn't getting the previous results. I mulled over the plan of going back to the original but then realized I forgot to include the core training. Once I introduced there was better results. I learned how that the cardio training was beneficial to improved fitness and how core training( body bridge, crunches, sit ups, etc..)was beneficial to my weight loss. I feel that my new regime is way better to my body than the old one. The old one was all about weight loss, but the new one is about both weight loss and fitness. I have learned a lot about my body from doing this type of exercise than anything else that i did before. Sadly I can not do this at this point of time but I hope I can continue this in the future and and get better results and improve my body.

Home ftiness

My current exercise regime at home is going great. My parent say they are seeing results, but I am not sure about it. I am still giving it my all and I am also looking to increase the speed and incline in the near future. I still have not got to the stage of were the current speed and incline has gotten easier than previous times. As since this is not a permanent fitness regime I may also go back to my original routine. Were I ran on a consistent speed and incline for an hour. I have also recently realized forgot a key part of my routine from my old regime I was going to include in my new one. The key part was that right after running I did some core training like body bridge and crunches. This will be immediately implemented. Even with this new addition,if I feel there is no improvement from the last regime I will pull the plug and revert back.

Buddies part 3

This was my second full buddies session.  In this session we did lacrosse, were we set up a game for them to verse other little buddies and taught them the basics. In the group I was in was with Arjun and Nicholas, Andy, and Monish; plush Joel tagged along. When we started to teach them the buddies got the hand of it very quickly. Once we had started the game there at it with ferocity not seen before. We were cheering them on the entire game high five them when we had the chance. while the rest of the class was cheering on the kids and encouraging them some of us were not pulling there weight. they were not even involved with their buddies. Luckily for their buddies the rest of the group quickly took over for them and did the job they were supposed to do. half way through the game one of their buddies just sat down far away from the game and I went to go check on them.  When i got there luckily they were just tired and taking a break. The one thing that infuriated me about it was that the older buddy just walked away and was socializing and left them alone. The lessons I learned form that experience was that some people will not pull their weight and you have take on their responsibility and how sometimes teamwork is needed in leading a group. 

flex fitness

On Tuesday last week we did the pyramid for fitness. Since it was a flex there was no way nobody was going down all the way. When I started off I noticed how most people around me were not doing  not doing the exercises properly. The reason I believe was because everyone wanting to stay together as a group doing the same rep and exercise. If one was faster(most likely because they were not doing the activity properly) the rest would attempt methods ranging from not completing a proper rep to even skipping an exercise or two. Despite my friends doing what I mentioned before I did proper reps and proper exercises. This put me way behind them but I still stuck to it. I was slower than previous times I did this fitness day activity since I wanted to do everything the proper way. I found out that it was more intensive to do it this way. I also learned how staying with your friends wont always turn out to be the best option for you.