Pebblebrook High School 2.0: Project-based;
Problem Solved!
Department: Physical
Education Spring Semester 2015
COURSE TITLE: General Physical
Education INSTRUCTOR: Brittny R. Jones
EMAIL: brittny.jones@cobbk12.org PHONE: 770-819-2521 ext. 059
PHS SCHOOL VISION: Empowering
Students to Become Productive Members of a Global Community
PHS SCHOOL MISSION: Modeling
and Developing Intellectual, Physical and Emotional Behaviors that Lead to
Success for All
KEY ACTIONS:
·
Increase the
Graduation Rate
·
Increase rigor
and student engagement (Project-based learning environment)
·
Increase
community and parental involvement
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This class provides students
with the opportunity to explore a variety of sports. The learner will learn how to apply skills,
knowledge, strategies and tactics to each sport for effective results. Students
will also participate in Fitnessgram Testing throughout the semester. The results and progess will sent out with
each student’s report card at the end of each semester. Students are required
to participate in these activities along with regular fitness activities for
each unit.
KEY STANDARDS:
PEHS.1: Demonstrates competency in motor skills
and movement patterns needed to perform a
variety of physical activities.
PEHS.2: Demonstrates understanding of movement
concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics
as they apply to the learning and performance of physical
activities.
PEHS.3: Participates regularly in physical
activity.
PEHS.4: Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing
level of physical fitness.
PEHE.5: Exhibits responsible personal and social
behavior that respects self and others in
physical activity settings.
PEHS.6: Values physical activity for health,
enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social
interaction.
GRADING POLICY:
Students will be graded based on the following criteria and their
description.
35% - Participation –Students must participate daily in physical
activity (Performance Standard PEHS.3).
Each student must be engaged in all activities during the entire class
period, while behaving in a respectful manner. Students cannot choose which
activity to participate in. Each student
will either receive full credit or no credit for the day. Students will be
graded daily for participation.
- 20 % - Dress
Out –
Students must wear appropriate clothing for every activity (Performance
Standard PEHS.5). This should consist of tennis shoes, shorts/sweat pants and a
t-shirt. Slides, flip flops, sandals, boots, leggings, compression shorts, tank
tops, or sweat pants over clothing worn to school will not be accepted as
appropriate clothing and will result in a zero (0) dress-out grade. Students will be graded daily for dress-out.
- 20%- Unit
Assessments/Projects –Students will be assessed on observable characteristics of skill
proficiency (Performance Standard PEHS.1), Fitnessgram testing (Performance
Standard PEHS.4), and given a written test based on the course material covered
through-out the entire unit.
- 5%- Common
Assessments –Students will be assessed at the beginning, middle and end of
the semester to determine student growth based on the content of the
curriculum.
- 5 %- Writing
prompts
– Students will be given an assignment or set of instructions for an essay.
They will explain, define, classify, analyze, compare, describe, convince, give
an opinion, or choose a point of view about a particular topic.
- 15%= Final –An assessment will be
given based on the content covered during the entire semester.
Grades will be given weekly
based on a 100% of Dress out and Participation. All other grades
will be posted by Monday of the following week. Students are encouraged to
monitor their grades and make any queries where nessessary. The grade given
will be final once the week has passed.
35% . . . Participation
20% . . . Dressing out
20% . . Unit Assessments
5% . . . Common
Assessments
5%. . . Writing
prompt
15% . . . Final
GRADING SCALE:
A - 100-90%
B - 89-80%
C - 79-74%
D – 70-73%
F - 69-Below
SYNERGY ACCESS TO
GRADES:
It is strongly encouraged that you keep your Synergy login information
in a safe place and that you have access to the information when needed. Parents should contact the Main Office
(770.819.2521) or Mr. John Chandler at ext. 099 in order to obtain their
synergy password and access information.
Please note that
when you are viewing grades in Synergy that a blank grade column for your child
has no effect on their grade. If the
space is blank, then your student may not have turned in that assignment due to
absence or the teacher may not have entered grades for that assignment at that
time. An “X” means that the student is
exempt from an assignment at the discretion of the teacher.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Each student will
be actively engaged in the following activities:
- Volleyball
- Basketball
- Softball
- Flag Football
- Team Handball
- Floor Hockey
- Ultimate sports games
MATERIALS NEEDED:
·
Notebook
·
Pen/Pencil/Highlighter
·
Physical education attire (Sneakers,
T-shirt, Shorts or Sweat Pants). NO LEGGINGS, OR NO SPAGHETTI STRAP TOPS!
·
Combination lock for locker (Theft can
occur and we are not responsible for stolen items that are left unsecured.)
*Pebblebrook reserves the right at any
time to remove a lock from a locker*
DONATION REQUEST:
Any PE equipment
in good condition.
CLASS
EXPECTATIONS:
Students must abide by all
school rules and gym rules provided by the teachers.
FINAL EXAM EXEMPTION:
Students with no more than
one excused absence may qualify to exempt one of their final exams. Students with a course average of 80 or
higher may exempt one final exam of their choice. Students with a course average of 79 or below
may request that ten percentage points be added to the final exam grade. Towards the end of the semester, students who
qualify may submit an Exam Exemption Form to the classroom teacher of their
choice. Teachers must verify that the
student qualifies for the exemption.
PARTICIPATION:
Class
participation is an important component of the physical education curriculum.
Much can be learned from the exchange of ideas that occurs during class
discussions. Frequent absences SERIOUSLY jeopardize your success in this class.
The participation grade will be based on the degree of student involvement in
the learning activities, including attention to and participation in written
and oral exercises, class discussion, preparation for class, and all physical
activities. Non dressers will be
required to participate, but will lose dress out points for the day. If a
student choses not to participate in an activity he/she will be asked to do an
alternate assignment during the activity (walking, or a written assignment), or
a referral may be given if student refuses to participate in the alternate
assigned activity. A doctor’s note is reqired for non participants due to illness or
injury. To reiterate: If you do not
participate, you will not receive a
passing grade for that activity.
ATTENDANCE AND MAKE-UP POLICY:
If a student is
absent and does not have an excused absent, he/she will not be allowed make up
work. If the absence is excused by the attendance office the student will have
one (1) week to complete make up work. If a student is absent from class but is
seen on campus, he/she will be considered skipping class and will be given an
administrative referral.
LATE WORK POLICY:
If a student
turns in late work, he/she would only be allowed to get the maximum of
89% out of 100%.
TARDY POLICY:
To avoid being
counted tardy, students must be seated and ready for class when the bell rings.
School policy states that students may receive Saturday School, In-School
Suspension, and Out-of-School Suspension for repeated tardies.
EXTRA HELP:
Afternoon Session:
Days: Monday
Location: Women’s basketball office (Location:
Jackson Gym)
Time: 3:45pm - 5:00 pm
CELL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES:
As per the school’s policy,
cell phones are not to be used during class time unless directed by the teacher
for instructional purposes. Students will receive a discipline referral after
one warning to put away any electronic device (unless the device is being used
for instruction). Students are allowed to bring certain technologies to class
(iPad, laptop, Kindle, etc.), but it should NOT interfere with the teaching or other’s learning.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
Cheating is considered a serious
matter. Any student who is involved in cheating/plagiarism will receive a
grade of zero on the material, an unsatisfactory in conduct, and his/her
parents will be notified.
For this course,
cheating is defined as, but is not limited to, the following acts:
- Copying
anyone's answers to questions, exercises, study guides, class work or
homework assignments
- Taking
any information verbatim from any source, including the Internet, without
giving proper credit to the author, or rearranging the order of words
and/or changing some words as written by the author and claiming the work
as his or her own, i.e., plagiarism.
- Looking
onto another student's paper during a test or quiz.
- Having
available any study notes or other test aids during a test or quiz without
the teacher's permission.
- Collaborating
on assignments when independent work is expected.
CLASSROOM BLOG:
Throughout the year,
students are expected to use the classroom blog daily. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to check the
blog and come prepared to the next class. All handouts, assignments, updates
and information will be posted daily to the blog.
My blog: Visit
the Physical Education section of
Pebblebrook High School’s webpage.
You will find the blog to this course under Brittny Jones. http://brittnyjones.blogspot.com/
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Success is the sum of small
efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Have an amazing school year!
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