John M. Keller’s ARCS instructional design model "identifies four essential components for creating motivating instruction…”
Attention: Strategies for arousing and sustaining curiosity and interest Relevance: Strategies that link to learners’ needs, interests, and motives Confidence: Strategies that help students develop positive expectation for successful achievement Satisfaction: Strategies that provide extrinsic and intrinsic reinforcement for effort (1) When I think about using this ID model in PE, I think of the challenge of creating student buy-in when it comes to exercise and fitness. Keeping ARCS instructional design model in mind, the first step would be to get their attention. A video hook could be effective in arousing interest, or even something as simple as a question posed out loud to the class “Do you think your decisions regarding health and fitness made today can affect how long you live for?” followed by a Think, Pair, Share. The next step would be to make the content relevant. Continue a class discussion which gets students thinking about their family, friends, loved ones, and so on… who all have varying degrees of “healthy lifestyles.” Who do you know who is older and still physically active? What do you think makes one person more healthy than the other? One of my major goals in teaching and coaching is always instilling confidence in my students and athletes. In order to get students to feel successful in an area that many naturaly will not, is to set REALISTIC expectations. Improvement, improvement, improvement. Everybody is created differently… Some people are much better than math at others, some people are more naturally athletic. There is no “right answer” or “passing score” when it comes to fitness. When it comes to exercising, satisfaction is the easy part. I am always preaching to students the physical and emotional benefits of exercise. Your brain will create endorphins which make you happier and your body feel better! You will have an easier time doing day-to-day physical tasks. Food will taste better. You will sleep better. As you age, you will greatly reduce the risk of injury and illness. These are all the natural consequences of physical activity, or the intrinsic reinforcement. grading students on their effort will be an extrinsic reinforcement. I can also award additional positive consequences for those students who gave excellent effort, such as a “no dress pass” or water bottle. My driving question… How can we do PE online? I’m at a bit of a crossroads right now… This is something I care about and am quite interested in doing research on. I think there is a need for it, especially if we return to distance learning in the fall. Even if we go back to campus, I think incorporating technology into PE classrooms can be a good thing and is something I am hoping to do more of. I was also initially thinking my capstone project could be not only a resource for secondary PE teachers for “How to tech in PE,” but have tools for high school and college coaches and athletic programs. So where does my dilemma unfold? I’m not sure how to begin designing my action research. I think my driving question is centered more around teachers and coaches than students… How do I go about doing the research? I think I need to find some sort of PE teacher forum... (1) *The ARCS Model of Motivational Design originally developed by John M. Keller (1979, 1983). Adapted by Steven J. McGriff (1999). drive.google.com/file/d/0B1w1JOh5kTmMaVNud0Zua25DcE0/view
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Sheri
6/19/2020 03:15:39 pm
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one questioning my DQ. I think like we read in Baggio's chapters this week, cognitive load is legit. We do hit limits on what our brains can take in and put into long term memory.
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Lynda Tuttle Bergner
6/19/2020 05:14:00 pm
Dustin,
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6/19/2020 07:19:06 pm
Dustin,
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Laurie J. Gaynor
6/19/2020 07:40:16 pm
As a past coach, I find that when I read your blogs I want to find answers to your questions. I think that the hard part of PE is that it is a performance based class. I do not think anyone got healthier by being glued to a screen. So I was thinking about those social media challenges where people had to record themselves completing the challenge. Something like that might be fun and give you the teacher data you require. I agree that everyone has a different 'personal best' at any given time, but labels can create a fixed mindset. Our readings want us to look through many lenses. I am sure your driving question will yield worthwhile data. Keep going!
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