Department: Physical Education Fall
Semester 2014
COURSE TITLE: Aerobic Dance INSTRUCTOR: Coach
Thompson
EMAIL: Cherisse.Thompson@cobbk12.org PHONE: 770-819-2521 ext. 059
CLASSROOM BLOG: http://coachrisse.blogspot.com
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 course provides students
with an understanding of the importance of aerobic health. It gives students
the opportunity to learn a variety of ways to maintain fitness and health
without participating in an organized sport. Students will learn techniques and
principles for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Students will also participate
in Fitnessgram Testing throughout the semester.
The results and progress will be 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.
PEHS.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:
- 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.
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:
·
Aerobics
·
Yoga
·
Kickboxing
·
Step Aerobics Training
·
Core Training
·
Walking
·
Jogging
·
Dance
·
Fitness Games
·
Nutrition/Weight Management
·
Choreographing
·
Circuit Training
·
Fitness Assessments
MATERIALS NEEDED:
·
Folder
·
Notebook
·
Pen/Pencil/Highlighter
·
Physical education attire (Sneakers,
T-shirt, Shorts or Sweat Pants). NO LEGGINGS!
·
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 exercise
equipment.
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. Participation is worth 35 %
of each student’s final grade. Each
student will be graded on participation daily.
Frequent absences SERIOUSLY jeopardize a student’s 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, and all physical
activities. Non-Dressers will be required to still participate,
but will lose dress out points for the day.
If a student chooses not to participate in an activity, he or she will
be asked to do an alternate assignment during that activity (walk or written
assignment) or a referral may be given. A
doctor’s note is required for a non-participant due to sickness or injury.
ATTENDANCE AND MAKE-UP POLICY:
It’s
the student’s responsibility to make-up all written and skill-based assignments.
Only EXCUSED absences including
field trips, visitations, sickness, or pre-arranged meetings need to be made up
to receive credit. Students will have one week from the last day that they were
absent to make their work up. Refer to the Make-up Policy in the Student
Handbook.
LATE WORK POLICY:
Un-excused
students will have one day to hand in late assignments. The highest grade that a student may be able
to receive for any late work is 80% 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:
Morning Session:
Days: Monday /Wednesday
Location: Women’s basketball office
Time: 7am-7:50 am
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
Cherisse Thompson. Click the highlighted
link to access the blog.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Success is the sum of small
efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Have an amazing school year!
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