Iowa Association For Health, Physical Education, Recreation And Dance (IAHPERD)
State of Iowa
Legislature Alert
Licensure Renewal and Graduate Credit Opportunities!!!!!!!
We are offering Licensure Renewal and Graduate Credit opportunities again this year. You must be present at the entire convention to get these credits. This includes all opening sessions, general sessions, scheduled sessions and keynote speakers. Licensure Renewal Credit will be worth one credit at $50.00 and Graduate Credit through the University of Northern Iowa will be worth one credit at $280.00. You may sign up when you register via mail or you may sign up at the door right before convention. All assignments will be due December 1st to Lori Smith to receive credit.
You will need to provide a summary of each session you attended and the major points taught and practiced. After a summary, you will need to present and Action Inquiry Project. When you go back to teaching you will need to address the following areas from one of the sessions you attended:
- What is the challenge or the problem that you want to address that you believe the content and/or skill learned at the convention will improve. (student motivation, student knowledge, poor student skills, ineffective student behavior, weak parent support etc.)
- What precise information/data about your students’ abilities and their areas in need of improvement do you have that provides support and background to this being a challenge and/or problem? Your data might be student attitude survey results, student success rates, state and/or national trends of students success and/or lack of it, student participation rates and students self-directedness. It would be reported in terms of frequency, range, average, or most often occurring.
- What strategy or strategies did you gain from the convention that you feel could implement to impact this challenge and/or problem?
- How will you know if your efforts make a difference? What changes did you predict in students, parents, your colleagues, yourself and/or your program from your baseline data?
- Summarize the above items into a goal statement. Make sure your goal has these qualities: 1. It’s specific 2. It’s measurable 3. It’s doable in a timeframe.
- What were the results, what changed your baseline data, was it what your predicted? Provide a chart or graph or table.
- What did you learn about your students?
- What did you learn about yourself or your teaching?
- What insights were revealed?
- What might you plan to sustain your gains, what improvement might you make?