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>>Scott Smith: We had a-a major problem with Ds and Fs in PE about 8 years ago.
And we were giving about 25 to 30 percent of the students getting Ds or Fs
and so we saw that there was a major problem with that.
So we came up with a team teaching concept, so it allows students to have some choices
in class. And also it allowed us to build better connections.
And since that time, we're done to about 2 percent who are having Ds and Fs
in our classes. And we are talking about roughly 682 students.
The three activities of the week are the following: Whirl Ball, Soccer, or Fitness Group
So make sure you get an idea of what you want to be doing in those activities. Alright?
Make sure we're on time. Make sure we're dressing properly.
Just keep doing what you are doing. You guys are a fantastic group, so...
I don't see no-no issues. Mr. Delgado, what do you got?
>>John Delgado: Alright let's go over proper dress again. Uh what color tops?
>>Class: Gray or black [spoken softly]
>>Mr. Delgado: Louder.
>>Class: Gray or black!
>>Mr. Delgado: Gray or Black. What color bottoms?
>>Class: Black.
>>Mr. Delgado: Alright so let's make sure too uh no closed-uh no open toed shoes.
Proper footwear. Any questions?
>>Ric Lucore: Just a reminder, all your stuff is updated in Aeries. Uh, your teacher
has the grade printout for those of you that don't have access to Aeries still.
So you can come over to us and see your weekly grades, especially for the last couple
weeks here. Alright?
>>Mr. Smith: Alright. So in a second...don't move yet.
Uh, Whirl Ball will go up on Mr. Delgado's numbers
Soccer...
>>Mr. Delgado: Allowing choice is huge. Uh, I'm 42 years old and to be told, hey
you're going to do this. Uh, it's a little difficult. But if you're allowed a choice to
say hey, you can choose between this, this, and this. Anybody would rather have a choice.
Uh, some kids like football and some kids don't.
And by giving them options, it allows uh more involvement, more participation.
And we've seen by giving them choices, there's fewer discipline issues, fewer referrals.
>>Mr. Smith: How our week breaks down is-is on Mondays we use that as our communication
day. We'll bring the students in on Monday, it's our short period and we'll talk about
everything from setting up the new activities, going over what the positives were,
things that we need to improve on. We'll talk about you know, grades.
It gives us an opportunity to communicate with the students and kind of build
a relationship with them. And then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday is our activity day.
And what we do basically on the activity day is we come to together as a whole unit
We do our exercises, we do our calisthenics, we do our cardio together.
Then we break into our three sports.
Go, go, go!
>>Mr. Delgado: Whirl Ball is pretty popular because it's an up tempo game. And which,
it's almost-I like to say it's almost like hot potato. You want to keep the ball-you
want to keep it moving, you don't want to keep it in your hand. So every three steps
you got to throw the ball and you want to advance the ball to score.
Kids love it.
As far as creating choices of activities, we collaborate every three weeks. And we find
what sports are popular, which ones the kids like.
>>Mr. Smith: If you can get one other person to work with you, then you're
going to give them options. And by giving them options, you're going to see a major
impact on the positive side.
>>Mr. Delgado: Down! >>Class: Four.
>>Mr. Delgado: Down! >>Class: Five.
>>Mr. Delgado: Down! >>Class: Six.
>>Mr. Delgado: Down! >>Class: Seven.
>>Mr. Delgado: Down! >>Class: Eight.
>>Mr. Delgado: What we try to do is have a traditional sport, a non-traditional sport,
and a fitness group. What we have realized is that not every kid is competitive.
On Friday we do our cardio day which is when we bring them all together today,
and we do different cardio relays, mile run, but we do that as a whole unit...
on Fridays. Go!
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We give them something that they can take off campus.
Something that they can take to the park or into their neighborhood
and continue their fitness. We want them to have a say in their fitness.
We want them to have a say in their fitness.
When they're away from us, we don't want it to stop.
>>Mr. Delgado: The ultimate goal is to create life-lifetime habit of just being physically
active. Whether it's playing soccer, football, walking, if you're doing
something day in day out for 20 minutes, half an hour, that's your goal
for the rest of your life.
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