Liberty Middle School8th grade yoga unit

Physical Education Teachers

•Miss Maltese •Miss Stewart

Agenda• Goals and Standards• Psychomotor Assessment & Data• Physical Activity Assessment & Data• Cognitive Assessment & Data• Affective Assessment & Data• Trustworthiness• Reflections• Question and Answer

Goals and Standards

• Psychomotor• Performance of poses• 1a and 1

• Affective• Cooperation• 2a and 4

• Cognitive• Current knowledge of yoga• 1b and 3

Psychomotor Assessment• The skill we assessed was the students ability to follow four yoga cues when performing diff erent poses.• Checklist format• Both teachers observed and recorded data during class• Pre-test on day one of the unit• Post-test on the fi nal day

Psychomotor Check list

Physical Activity

• MovBands• Measures

movement in all directions

• Goal in the pre-test lesson: 100

• Goal in the post-test lesson:

Cognitive Assessment•Cognitive quiz on the first day of the unit•Facts and history

•Ten true or false questions•Students learned more about yoga during the unit•Gave the same quiz on the last day of the unit

Name ________________ Moves _________________YOGA QUIZPlease answer true or false for questions one through ten. If the statement is true write T if the statement is false write F. Please write T or F next to the question number. 1. ___ “Doga” is a type of yoga in which people use yoga to achieve harmony with their pets.2. ___ Daily yoga can help increase flexibility. 3. ___ The original birth place of yoga is China.4. ___ Research has suggested that yoga improves social and occupational functioning in schizophrenic patients.5. ___ Yoga is defined as having 4 branches or limbs.6. ___ A number of studies have shown that yoga can help reduce stress and anxiety.7. ___ There are over 1,000 different schools of yoga including Hatha yoga. 8. ___ Hot yoga refers to yoga exercise performed with many layers of clothes to increase blood circulation and sweat production.9. ___ Yoga if modified properly can be appropriate for any age.10. ___ Five million American practice yoga daily.

Affective Assessment

•Taught components of cooperation by helping an assisting partner•Students self reported using a four point Likert scale•Asked students to share examples

Please indicate how well you thought your affective participation was in class today. Circle your response and write an example of how you helped your partner in class today.Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly

Disagree

Students Examples of Cooperation

•Student 2, “I helped partner when he was struggling with the pose”•Student 5, “I took my shoes off when the teachers told me”•Student 8, “I reminded my partner of the cues”

Trustworthiness of the data•Validity: strong reliability/validity in the skill assessment. Limited reliability/validity in the affective assessment

•We eliminated teacher bias by having both teacher assess during the lesson

Reflections and Goals• Expand the written test to include more questions about the actual poses• Do CFUs (checks for understanding) for each of the poses• Less stations to focus more on certain poses

• Increase number of poses the student knows by the end of the unit

QUESTIONS?

Contact Information

Miss Maltese

• (845) 807-3284•Allison.maltese@cortland.edu

Miss Stewart

• (585) 662-9378•Abigail.stewart@cortland.edu