From this week's reading and PowerPoint I have learned that there is literacy that relates to all disciplines. I have learned also that writing is a process not a product and that writing is not a punishment and that educators need to establish a climate that fosters writing.
My discipline is health and physical education. I learned this week that general literacy is the ability to make meaning through reading, writing, and reasoning; but content literacy in physical education means that students can take general literacy to acquire knowledge in a specific movement, sport, or fitness content. As a teacher I can have the students write about specific rules from a sport which can help them to review rules, see how rules look in writing, and engage in critical thinking. Also I can have bulletin boards in the locker rooms that have articles about sports or the benefits of exercise that might entice the students to find out more information about a health topic. Also has a health teacher I liked the idea in the PowerPoint that said to pretend that you are a pair of lungs and write a letter of complaint to cigarettes in which they can describe the effects of smoking. I can also help my students to understand how to read food labels and help them understand choosemyplate.gov.
Here is a link for health and physical literacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_okRtLv-7Sk
I agree the we as teachers should not make writing a punishment but I have worked in ISS (In School Suspension) and some of those students it helped them to write out about what they did. Having students write out how they feel or thinking helps students to realize a solution to the problem. Although writing out I will not do...fifty to hundred times is not good. this weeks module helped me to see how important it is to have students write.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of incorporating writing into health and physical education! When I was in high school, (and actually still today) I was terrible at understanding sports and the rules and things like that. I feel like if a teacher had given me an opportunity to write things down in a creative way, I might have understood it better. I think that is why I enjoyed/understood health class better, because we were assigned a lot of writing in that class.
ReplyDeleteHi Laura! I think writing is especially applicable to health, and there are so many possibilities. Just brainstorming here, but I was thinking, for instance, that you could read a narrative about a character faced with a difficult situation (e.g., offer to do drugs, in an abusive relationship, etc.) and then have the students write an ending about what the character should do based on the principles you talked about in class.
ReplyDeleteIn PE, I think a very realistic application of writing would be to have students make a fitness plan outlining how they will stay fit after the semester is over. I have had a few physical fitness trainers in my life, and I really appreciated it when they did that to me.
Thanks for sharing that video! One of my friends teaches at Northern Illinois University, and they actually have a combined literacy education/physical education course for JUST the PE majors. Here is a video they made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U016GGp9hHk