Friday, November 6, 2015

I will present at FETC

ESL Collaboration Connection


Session Designation: Poster
Focus Area: Communication and Collaboration

Session Schedule: 
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Area 3 - Exhibit Hall Booth 2500 Session

Description: ELLs should not stand alone; revolutionize collaboration in your district for all learners! Utilize collaboration tools to lead the technology integration charge at your campuses and forge the path to digital transformation. This session will spark your collaborative drive as you rev up your instructional landscape.

Classroom Crashers: An Instructional Overhaul 


Session Designation: Poster
Focus Area: Instructional Design

Session Schedule:
Date: Thursday, January 14, 2016
Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Area 3 - Exhibit Hall Booth 2500

Session Description: Are your lessons boring? Do you need help integrating technology into your classroom? We will show you how they incorporated this energetic and highly engaging program into their K-12 classrooms. Learn how to take an ordinary lesson into an extraordinary lesson using technology, focusing on collaboration and modeling to enhance student engagement.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Twitter Chats @ GISD


HEALTH & PE

The health and P.E courses have additional activities that must be completed by all students taking the original or credit recovery version of these courses.  The lab teacher should maintain record of these completed assignments at least for the duration of the school year in which the assignments are completed. We will be using  GEO to fulfill these requirements.

Fitness Exercise Log (Weight of 40%)

The state requires that 50% of a physical education course must include a Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity.  For this online course, this requirement will be accomplished using a Fitness Exercise Log.  For at least 3 weeks (at least 5 days per week), the student must complete daily exercise which builds aerobic capacity, strength, or flexibility documented by the duration in minutes on the log.  The daily exercise must continue for at least 3 weeks and total at least 720 minutes.
For 2015-16, this Fitness Log will be located within the first lesson of the Edgenuity course under “Online Content” for students to save or print.  The completion score for this component must be entered by the lab teacher using the “Additional Activities” directions.

FitnessGram Assessment (No weight- required for credit)
Each student will be required to complete a FitnessGram for the school year in which Fitness credit is granted.  No weight will be awarded in their average, but it is REQUIRED for credit to be received.  
SASP Teachers:  As of August 17th, 2015, we are working with the CIA and Technology Departments on the streamlined instructions for how the FitnessGram will be recorded.  All HPE Department Heads have the rights to look up Fitness Gram results for your campus.  Please have a campus coach perform the Fitness Gram test, and we will be sending instructions on who will be able to enter those results.

Online Health – Additional Activities

Health Permission Letter
Health has an additional permission letter that must be signed by a parent/guardian before the student is to start the course.

CPR Requirement:

Hands-on CPR is a requirement for most of our current students for graduation.  Many of these students have already received this training.  To check to see if a student has already completed this requirement, please e-mail his or her counselor.  If a student has NOT received the CPR Requirement course in GEO has been created to fulfill this requirement, but credit will not be given until a demonstration to a CPR certified person is complete.  Credit cannot be given to a student until this requirement is complete.

Parenting and Paternity Awareness (p.a.p.a.) - (Combined weight of 10%)
The Attorney General of Texas requires that students taking Health also complete the p.a.p.a requirements.  Where the grade weighting of these combined assignments is only 10%, all p.a.p.a. components MUST be completed before credit is awarded.
In addition to finish the Edgenuity course, every student enrolled in the Health Course has to complete the P.A.P.A requirements in order to gain the credit.
When the GEO courses is completed, follow the instructions about adding an additional activity in Edgenuity.