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Students will learn a brief background about energy transfer between the sun, producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers. ½ of the students are primary consumers (plants) and ¼ of the students are primary consumers (rabbits) and ¼ of the students are secondary consumers (hawks).
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Aces and exercise.
Using a deck of playing cards, the students will pick the number of reps for various exercises.
And Freeze!
Students will practice listening skills and basic physical concepts as required in physical education class. Students will also work on balance and coordination.
Animal Laps
Combining information about the speed of animals, the students will run laps in the gym or outdoors.
Basketball Relay
Students will practice teamwork, dribbling, and shooting a basketball.
Bear Hunt Obstacle Course
This plan will combine reading with balance and coordination skills to allow students to navigate a simple obstacle course.
Boom Over Movement Game
Students will play a game in which they need to change direction quickly. Students are to pretend that they are on a sailboat that is in the middle of a storm. They will have to run and change direction based on verbal commands and duck quickly to avoid being hit by the imaginary boom.
Butterfly Stretches
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The student will participate in a game of basketball using various sizes of available balls.
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The students will move to the music based on its beat, words, tune, and other variables.
On Top of Spaghetti
Pe immigration.
The students will research games and activities from other countries to share during a PE class.
Pass It Off
This lesson will allow students to practice passing, dribbling, and bouncing skills using basketballs
Plate Aerobics
Students will practice basic aerobics moves while trying to stay positioned on paper plates, this aids in coordination.
Race to the Answer
This lesson will allow students to practice teamwork, basic math skills, and get exercise through a relay race. Note: Problems/difficulty level can be altered by grade
Ride ‘Em Cowboy/girl
This lesson will allow students to practice gross motor skills.
Students will practice listening skills and basic physical concepts as required in physical education class.
Ski to the Finish Line
This plan will allow students to practice coordination while staying physical. Students will demonstrate moving straight, backwards, and in a zig-zag pattern.
The New PE Class
The students will create a PE activity to share and demonstrate to peers.
This lesson will allow students to practice teamwork and trust building, as well as working on directionality for younger students.
What Time is it FOX?
The students play a game where they practice different movements including jumping, galloping, skipping, running, jogging, leaping, and walking. Based on National Physical Education Standards, students should have been learning these skills for the last 4 years.
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Free resources containing over 30 pe homework assignments for children to complete at home.
The following free resources feature over 30 assessment ideas that physical educators can send home with their students. Book #1 is geared for grades grades 3-6. Book #2 is geared more towards Secondary but there are more elementary ideas there as well. The first book features one - page assessments that are designed to assess whether children learned various concepts that were being taught in physical education class. The second book features activity and health lesson ideas that you can access at the PE Central website. Unlike the first book the worksheets can be printed from the website after you click on the link.
Note : There is dated material in book #1 as the assessments are original homework assessment sheets published in the Teaching Elementary Physical Education Journal, which was published from 1990-2006 by Human Kinetics. We invite you to modify these as these are just ideas to get you started.
Table of Contents (Book 1):
- Secret Code-Fitness Sheet
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- How many body parts can you strike with?
- How heart smart are you?
- Kicking: What do you know?
- See if you can fill in the fielder’s glove.
- Start off on the right foot-be safe in PE with the right sneakers.
- Take me out to the ballpark!
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PE Lesson Plans for Middle School (FREE Middle School PE Activities)
- Doug Curtin
- November 23, 2021
Struggling to find engaging PE activities for middle school students?
Throughout the entire k-12 physical education experience, students have an opportunity to develop skills and form positive relationships with health and wellness. And while each grade level presents unique challenges, middle school pe teachers have students at an incredibly transformational age.
Teachers need to strike a delicate balance when selecting middle school physical education units that spark students’ interest and keep them engaged for multiple lessons and weeks.
Producing middle school physical education unit plans on multiple topics is tough!
There is no shortage of physical education ideas for middle school. But finding the lessons that will support and connect to your bigger goal and picture of a school year can be tricky!
It can become overwhelming as you think of all the different things you want to layer into a semester or school year.
- What about outdoor physical education games for middle school?
- What about indoor physical education games for middle school?
- When will we be ready to do our fitness testing?
- Is the content and curriculum I am using age-appropriate and engaging?
A week’s worth of free PE lesson plans for middle school classes
While there is no shortage of middle school gym games and lessons, finding quality curriculum can be challenging. And sparking new ideas as the landscape of PE changes can be hard. Here is a full week of middle school pe lesson plans that have fun games, introduce basic fitness concepts, and layer in social-emotional learning.
Day 1: PE Games For Middle School
It is day one! And your middle school students are waiting to see what their pe teacher has in store. While you might be eager to jump right to the robust instructional content you have meticulously planned, remember that this is your chance to get students excited and engaged.
So let’s start with getting students moving, their heart rates up, and talking with each other. Let’s play pick a side! A spin-off on many of the classic phys ed games for middle school, students will choose left or right, and then based on that choice, have a fitness assignment.
It may feel a little silly at first, but go through a few rounds with different topics! This way, students get an opportunity to move throughout your gym or space and talk to new people as they pick their different sides.
- Students are given their choice of two different animals and then assigned different movements.
- Let students get comfortable with the format of the game in the first round.
- In the second round, students now have to pick foods that they like and don’t like.
- Now that students are more comfortable with the game encourage them to talk with people around them about why they chose their side
- In the third round, students now pick music genres and styles they like.
- At this point, you have gotten the chance to see your students move. Now you can stop and break down any fixes or faults you might want to address early on.
- You just gave three excellent examples of ‘pick side topics,’ now, let your students have some choice and ownership! Maybe pick a school-specific topic for which they can think of left or right options and play again!
- Example: Do you like sitting at the round tables in cafeteria or rectangle?
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Day 2: Air Squat & Introducing Fitness
Most middle school students have some understanding of foundational human movements. While they might not necessarily know them by name, many of them have been tasked to do things like squat, lunge, hinge, and more throughout their elementary school experience.
While you may want to stick to middle school phys ed games that keep and hold your student’s attention, layering in different movement education lesson plans can significantly impact a student’s overall fitness journey.
And they can still be fun! Here is an excellent example of a lesson that focuses on the squat and hinge, and puts it all together in a fun workout to wrap up physical education class.
- 2 Minutes of light cardio
- Spiderman & Reach – 1 Minute Continuous Movement, Alternating
- Alt. Samson – 1 Minute Continuous Movement
- Good Mornings 4 x 10 Reps
- Elbow Plan 4 x :20 Seconds
- 1:00 Rest After Each Round
- Introduce the 4 points of performance
- Air Squat 2 x 5 Reps
The Finisher
- 5 Rounds Of 10 Air Squats + 2:00 Walk/Jog/Run
Day 3: Fitness Literacy – Cognitive
If you are seeing your students almost every day of the week, chances are you want to layer in some cognitive materials into your physical education curriculum.
Doing so can help students build connections to the importance of physical wellness and how it relates to the different middle school pe games and exercises you do throughout the semester.
- Watch the short video and read the full article before answering the lesson questions
- Full Lesson Materials Here
- 9 chapter questions provided that can be either done individually or incorporated as part of a group discussion
- Have a little extra time? Here you can add some fun pe games for middle school students. Check out some ideas from PE teacher Peter Boucher on Gopher Sports blogs: 4 Great PE Games For Middle School.
Day 4: Lunge – More Foundational Fitness
This is the second day of foundational movements and workouts. Emphasizing the foundations in your physical education units for middle school is an easy win! You hit several shape america standards/state standards and build core competencies that can be applied to almost any other units or lesson.
Many students believe they know how to lunge without instruction, but often the result is an inefficient movement that is tough on the knee joint and lower back. Today, we will take time to understand the position of our feet, knees, and hips and do it right!
- Leg Swings – 10 Slow Reps Each Direction
- Inchworm To Push Up – 1:00 Slow Continuous Movement
- Lunge – 3 x 6 Reps (Alternating Legs)
- Introduce the 3 points of performance of the burpee
- Provide scaling options for different speeds
- Practice 2 reps of each speed option
- 30 Alternating Lunges
- 2:00 Burpees
- 20 Alternating Lunges
- 1:00 Burpees
- 10 Alternating Lunges
- :30 Burpees
Day 5: Mindfulness – Social-Emotional Learning
As a physical education teacher, you are often tasked with any new topics or curriculum that don’t neatly fit into our subject areas. In recent years, social-emotional learning has emerged and been added to the national standards for physical education and wellness by Shape America. And for a good reason!
We know that much like any fitness or physical skill, we can help our middle school students to build mindfulness skills. Mindfulness is paying attention to what’s happening on purpose with kindness, curiosity, without judgment.
- Allowing us to arrive and be present in our lesson together
- Learning about the background and breakdown of different elements of mindfulness
- Warming ourselves up and helping us to get ready for our full practice
- Putting mindfulness into action and building skills that we can continue using outside of class
How are Plt4m’s middle school PE units delivered?
Whichever way makes sense for your classroom layout! For example, many middle school teachers project PLT4M lessons in their gym for the whole class to follow along. Others deliver assignments via a 1-to-1 device.
What types of middle school physical education activities do you cover?
Middle school is a time to sample and try out new options! PLT4M’s library of original content looks to mirror students’ long-term choices for health and wellness. Dance fitness, weight-lifting, yoga, mobility, and nutrition are just a few of the topics covered in our 25+ PE programs.
Do you only provide middle school fitness lesson plans?
No, we also have PE lesson plans for high school. All our content is intended for middle and high school students.
Most students’ fitness journey is not defined by their age, but their experience. With our beginner to advanced offerings, there is something for everyone.
Do you support the middle school PE curriculum with informational lessons as well as physical activities?
PE curriculum for middle school should be comprehensive. Therefore, everything we provide is thoughtfully prepared to have written and video components to bring together the full PE picture. The goal is to have students explore all aspects of health and wellness, including informational lessons and physical activities.
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Physical Education Homework Guide
Physical education homework is divided between practical exercises and writing sections. Some of the sections require research while others demand proof of execution. It is one of the easiest yet most confusing assignments you will undertake.
The nature of the assignment in physical education will depend on the unit you are handling. Some physical education assignments require you to complete a series of exercises. Others call for research to understand the theories and background information on these exercises. Here are expert tips on how to handle PE assignments:
Set a time for the assignment
Like all other assignments, the most important step is to find a perfect time to complete the work. The time will depend on the availability of resources and the urgency of the work. For instance, you need to align the time with the hours the library opens if you need to research. If you are using the gym, you should choose an hour when it is open.
The body and mind should be in synch and able to assist you to complete the assignment effectively. You should have enough time to complete the physical education assignment and submit it before the deadline. If you are joining a team, the other members should also be available for the assignment.
Prepare the right tools
What tools do you need to complete the homework? Physical education homework assignments may require gym equipment, workout gear, and writing tools. Prepare these tools before you can sit down to work on the exercises. The tools required will depend on the nature of the assignment.
Preparing the right tools allows you to settle down once and for all to complete the assignment. You avoid having to midway through the exercise to fetch a book or exercise gear. It will reduce the time taken to complete the work.
Set a study desk for the assignment
PE writing assignments require you to set a study area that allows you to complete the work easily. Choose a comfortable desk with ergonomic furniture. The furniture protects your body, especially your backbone from damage. It allows you to take as much time as you need to write the assignment without straining. You can get deeper into the paper and produce more insightful ideas.
Choose a space away from distractions. Avoid television, video games, and uninvited chats. They distract you from the writing, delaying the completion of your draft. Though you need to use the internet, you should switch off notifications and social media. Such temptations will cause you to take longer than necessary to complete the work.
Use recording devices
Away from PE written assignments, you may be required to record exercises like running or workout. The assignment is then uploaded to the school portal or forwarded to your tutor. You will need recording devices like a camera and microphone. A phone is enough to complete such assignments. You may need a stand or the assistance of a friend to record the video effectively.
Some of the physical exercises require improvisation. In situations where you do not have weights, you may use water bottles and tables. Part of PE training is improvisation. Demonstrate this creativity by improvising your exercise regime.
Check alternative materials online
The internet is a great resource for PE students. It captures numerous videos of materials you can use to complete your PE assignments. Check alternatives online to demonstrate creativity and still achieve the same goals without requiring advanced resources.
Both physical education writing assignments and exercise-based assignments require a strategy. Improvise your way around these exercises to make them easier and effective. Get help where necessary to guarantee excellent performance.
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10 Basketball Lesson Ideas for PE
Basketball Lesson Ideas for PE
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- Elementary PE Dribbling with Basketball Lesson Video – Watch Elementary PE Teacher Tom Winieki teach a lesson on basketball dribbling to his 4th graders. This video will give you a great perspective on how to effectively teach the skills of basketball in a very small space. Watch how he differentiates instruction for so many children.
- Feed the Frogs – Great lesson to teach children about keeping eyes up with dribbling a ball with finger pads.
- Building Dribblers – Kids work together to build a structure while working on their basketball dribbling skills.
- Card Sharks Basketball Passing – Practice chest and bounce passes using a deck of cards.
- Dribbling Beanbag Transfer – This lesson helps teach students how to keep their eyes up when they are dribbling a ball.
- Bottle Cap Basketball (Bounce Pass) – Great way to have your students practice the bounce pass. Pennies work too, but make it much harder!
Grades 9-12
- Basketball Golf – Set up a course in your gym to help students learn about shooting a basketball.
- Basketball Chest or Bounce Pass Peer Assessment – Have partners assess each other on how well they are performing the cues for the chest and bounce pass. Written assessment can be printed and downloaded as a PDF.
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- Morgado’s Kindness Basketball A-Thon – This is an event based entirely around basketball. Great for getting the community involved.
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- Basketball History Quiz – Kids will love this interactive board that asks them to answer questions about basketball. You can design this board to feature any type of question.
- Team Building and Rhythms Dance (with Video) – Great dance, especially if you want to motivate the boys in your classes to do some dancing, which is difficult to do sometime!
We hope you enjoy putting these lesson ideas into practice over the coming months, right into March Madness!
To see more basketball-themed ideas at PE Central, visit www.pecentral.org/marchmadness.html
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Thanks for going over some fun lesson ideas for basketball. I like the idea of the dribbling beanbag transfer teaching students to keep their eyes up. It also seems like a good way to help them become aware of their surroundings.
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Thank you Mark for these great ideas for my upcoming classes.
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In our efforts to connect across our organizations, we’re drowning in real-time virtual interaction technology, from Zoom to Slack to Teams, plus group texting, WeChat, WhatsApp, and everything in between. There’s seemingly no excuse to not collaborate. The problem? Interacting is easier than ever, but true, productive, value-creating collaboration is not. And what’s more, where engagement is occurring, its quality is deteriorating. This wastes valuable resources, because every minute spent on a low-value interaction eats into time that could be used for important, creative, and powerful activities.
It’s no wonder a recent McKinsey survey found 80 percent of executives were considering or already implementing changes in meeting structure and cadence in response to the evolution in how people work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, most executives say they frequently find themselves spending way too much time on pointless interactions that drain their energy and produce information overload.
Most executives say they frequently find themselves spending way too much time on pointless interactions.
Three critical collaborative interactions
What can be done? We’ve found it’s possible to quickly improve collaborative interactions by categorizing them by type and making a few shifts accordingly. We’ve observed three broad categories of collaborative interactions (exhibit):
- Decision making, including complex or uncertain decisions (for example, investment decisions) and cross-cutting routine decisions (such as quarterly business reviews)
- Creative solutions and coordination, including innovation sessions (for example, developing new products) and routine working sessions (such as daily check-ins)
- Information sharing, including one-way communication (video, for instance) and two-way communication (such as town halls with Q&As)
Below we describe the key shifts required to improve each category of collaborative interaction, as well as tools you can use to pinpoint problems in the moment and take corrective action.
Decision making: Determining decision rights
When you’re told you’re “responsible” for a decision, does that mean you get to decide? What if you’re told you’re “accountable”? Do you cast the deciding vote, or does the person responsible? What about those who must be “consulted”? Sometimes they are told their input will be reflected in the final answer—can they veto a decision if they feel their input was not fully considered?
It’s no wonder one of the key factors for fast, high-quality decisions is to clarify exactly who makes them. Consider a success story at a renewable-energy company. To foster accountability and transparency, the company developed a 30-minute “role card” conversation for managers to have with their direct reports. As part of this conversation, managers explicitly laid out the decision rights and accountability metrics for each direct report. The result? Role clarity enabled easier navigation for employees, sped up decision making, and resulted in decisions that were much more customer focused.
How to define decision rights
We recommend a simple yet comprehensive approach for defining decision rights. We call it DARE, which stands for deciders, advisers, recommenders, and executors:
Deciders are the only ones with a vote (unlike the RACI model, which helps determine who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed). If the deciders get stuck, they should jointly agree on how to escalate the decision or figure out a way to move the process along, even if it means agreeing to “disagree and commit.”
Advisers have input and help shape the decision. They have an outsize voice in setting the context of the decision and have a big stake in its outcome—for example, it may affect their profit-and-loss statements—but they don’t get a vote.
Recommenders conduct the analyses, explore the alternatives, illuminate the pros and cons, and ultimately recommend a course of action to advisers and deciders. They see the day-to-day implications of the decision but also have no vote. Best-in-class recommenders offer multiple options and sometimes invite others to suggest more if doing so may lead to better outcomes. A common mistake of recommenders, though, is coming in with only one recommendation (often the status quo) and trying to convince everyone it’s the best path forward. In general, the more recommenders, the better the process—but not in the decision meeting itself.
Executers don’t give input but are deeply involved in implementing the decision. For speed, clarity, and alignment, executers need to be in the room when the decision is made so they can ask clarifying questions and spot flaws that might hinder implementation. Notably, the number of executers doesn’t necessarily depend on the importance of the decision. An M&A decision, for example, might have just two executors: the CFO and a business-unit head.
To make this shift, ensure everyone is crystal clear about who has a voice but no vote or veto. Our research indicates while it is often helpful to involve more people in decision making, not all of them should be deciders—in many cases, just one individual should be the decider (see sidebar “How to define decision rights”). Don’t underestimate the difficulty of implementing this. It often goes against our risk-averse instinct to ensure everyone is “happy” with a decision, particularly our superiors and major stakeholders. Executing and sustaining this change takes real courage and leadership.
Creative solutions and coordination: Open innovation
Routine working sessions are fairly straightforward. What many organizations struggle with is finding innovative ways to identify and drive toward solutions. How often do you tell your teams what to do versus empowering them to come up with solutions? While they may solve the immediate need to “get stuff done,” bureaucracies and micromanagement are a recipe for disaster. They slow down the organizational response to the market and customers, prevent leaders from focusing on strategic priorities, and harm employee engagement. Our research suggests key success factors in winning organizations are empowering employees and spending more time on high-quality coaching interactions.
How microenterprises empower employees to drive innovative solutions
Haier, a Chinese appliance maker, created more than 4,000 microenterprises (MEs) that share common approaches but operate independently. Haier has three types of microenterprises:
- Market-facing MEs have roots in Haier’s legacy appliance business, reinvented for today’s customer-centric, web-enabled world. They are expected to grow revenue and profit ten times faster than the industry average.
- Incubating MEs focus on emerging markets such as e-gaming or wrapping new business models around familiar products. They currently account for more than 10 percent of Haier’s market capitalization.
- “Node” MEs sell market-facing ME products and services such as design, manufacturing, and human-resources support.
Take Haier. The Chinese appliance maker divided itself into more than 4,000 microenterprises with ten to 15 employees each, organized in an open ecosystem of users, inventors, and partners (see sidebar “How microenterprises empower employees to drive innovative solutions”). This shift turned employees into energetic entrepreneurs who were directly accountable for customers. Haier’s microenterprises are free to form and evolve with little central direction, but they share the same approach to target setting, internal contracting, and cross-unit coordination. Empowering employees to drive innovative solutions has taken the company from innovation-phobic to entrepreneurial at scale. Since 2015, revenue from Haier Smart Home, the company’s listed home-appliance business, has grown by more than 18 percent a year, topping 209 billion renminbi ($32 billion) in 2020. The company has also made a string of acquisitions, including the 2016 purchase of GE Appliances, with new ventures creating more than $2 billion in market value.
Empowering others doesn’t mean leaving them alone. Successful empowerment, counterintuitively, doesn’t mean leaving employees alone. Empowerment requires leaders to give employees both the tools and the right level of guidance and involvement. Leaders should play what we call the coach role: coaches don’t tell people what to do but instead provide guidance and guardrails and ensure accountability, while stepping back and allowing others to come up with solutions.
Haier was able to use a variety of tools—including objectives and key results (OKRs) and common problem statements—to foster an agile way of working across the enterprise that focuses innovative organizational energy on the most important topics. Not all companies can do this, and some will never be ready for enterprise agility. But every organization can take steps to improve the speed and quality of decisions made by empowered individuals.
Managers who are great coaches, for example, have typically benefited from years of investment by mentors, sponsors, and organizations. We think all organizations should do more to improve the coaching skills of managers and help them to create the space and time to coach teams, as opposed to filling out reports, presenting in meetings, and other activities that take time away from driving impact through the work of their teams.
But while great coaches take time to develop, something as simple as a daily stand-up or check-in can drive horizontal connectivity, creating the space for teams to understand what others are doing and where they need help to drive work forward without having to specifically task anyone in a hierarchical way. You may also consider how you are driving a focus on outcomes over activities on a near-term and long-term basis. Whether it’s OKRs or something else, how is your organization proactively communicating a focus on impact and results over tasks and activities? What do you measure? How is it tracked? How is the performance of your people and your teams managed against it? Over what time horizons?
The importance of psychological safety. As you start this journey, be sure to take a close look at psychological safety. If employees don’t feel psychologically safe, it will be nearly impossible for leaders and managers to break through disempowering behaviors like constant escalation, hiding problems or risks, and being afraid to ask questions—no matter how skilled they are as coaches.
Employers should be on the lookout for common problems indicating that significant challenges to psychological safety lurk underneath the surface. Consider asking yourself and your teams questions to test the degree of psychological safety you have cultivated: Do employees have space to bring up concerns or dissent? Do they feel that if they make a mistake it will be held against them? Do they feel they can take risks or ask for help? Do they feel others may undermine them? Do employees feel valued for their unique skills and talents? If the answer to any of these is not a clear-cut “yes,” the organization likely has room for improvement on psychological safety and relatedness as a foundation to high-quality interactions within and between teams.
Information sharing: Fit-for-purpose interactions
Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? You spend a significant amount of time in meetings every day but feel like nothing has been accomplished. You jump from one meeting to another and don’t get to think on your own until 7 p.m. You wonder why you need to attend a series of meetings where the same materials are presented over and over again. You’re exhausted.
An increasing number of organizations have begun to realize the urgency of driving ruthless meeting efficiency and of questioning whether meetings are truly required at all to share information. Live interactions can be useful for information sharing, particularly when there is an interpretive lens required to understand the information, when that information is particularly sensitive, or when leaders want to ensure there’s ample time to process it and ask questions. That said, most of us would say that most meetings are not particularly useful and often don’t accomplish their intended objective.
We have observed that many companies are moving to shorter meetings (15 to 30 minutes) rather than the standard default of one-hour meetings in an effort to drive focus and productivity. For example, Netflix launched a redesign effort to drastically improve meeting efficiency, resulting in a tightly controlled meeting protocol. Meetings cannot go beyond 30 minutes. Meetings for one-way information sharing must be canceled in favor of other mechanisms such as a memo, podcast, or vlog. Two-way information sharing during meetings is limited by having attendees review materials in advance, replacing presentations with Q&As. Early data show Netflix has been able to reduce the number of meetings by more than 65 percent, and more than 85 percent of employees favor the approach.
Making meeting time a scarce resource is another strategy organizations are using to improve the quality of information sharing and other types of interactions occurring in a meeting setting. Some companies have implemented no-meeting days. In Japan, Microsoft’s “Work Life Choice Challenge” adopted a four-day workweek, reduced the time employees spend in meetings—and boosted productivity by 40 percent. 1 Bill Chappell, “4-day workweek boosted workers’ productivity by 40%, Microsoft Japan says,” NPR, November 4, 2019, npr.org. Similarly, Shopify uses “No Meeting Wednesdays” to enable employees to devote time to projects they are passionate about and to promote creative thinking. 2 Amy Elisa Jackson, “Feedback & meeting-free Wednesdays: How Shopify beats the competition,” Glassdoor, December 5, 2018, glassdoor.com. And Moveline’s product team dedicates every Tuesday to “Maker Day,” an opportunity to create and solve complex problems without the distraction of meetings. 3 Rebecca Greenfield, “Why your office needs a maker day,” Fast Company , April 17, 2014, fastcompany.com.
Finally, no meeting could be considered well scoped without considering who should participate, as there are real financial and transaction costs to meeting participation. Leaders should treat time spent in meetings as seriously as companies treat financial capital. Every leader in every organization should ask the following questions before attending any meeting: What’s this meeting for? What’s my role? Can I shorten this meeting by limiting live information sharing and focusing on discussion and decision making? We encourage you to excuse yourself from meetings if you don’t have a role in influencing the outcome and to instead get a quick update over email. If you are not essential, the meeting will still be successful (possibly more so!) without your presence. Try it and see what happens.
High-quality, focused interactions can improve productivity, speed, and innovation within any organization—and drive better business performance. We hope the above insights have inspired you to try some new techniques to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of collaboration within your organization.
Aaron De Smet is a senior partner in McKinsey’s New Jersey office; Caitlin Hewes is a consultant in the Atlanta office; Mengwei Luo is an associate partner in the New York office; J.R. Maxwell is a partner in the Washington, DC, office; and Patrick Simon is a partner in the Munich office.
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Bring the theme of PE into your classroom with these sporty writing frames and worksheets! For all your students who love sports, we've created football-themed border images, colouring sheets and display banners. You can also find worksheets and writing frames inspired by martial arts, rugby, swimming and even the winter Olympics!
Use recording devices. Away from PE written assignments, you may be required to record exercises like running or workout. The assignment is then uploaded to the school portal or forwarded to your tutor. You will need recording devices like a camera and microphone. A phone is enough to complete such assignments.
Written assessment can be printed and downloaded as a PDF. Best Practice. Morgado's Kindness Basketball A-Thon - This is an event based entirely around basketball. Great for getting the community involved. ... Soccer Activities for Physical Education This entry was posted in Newsletter March, PE Activities, PE Activities & Games, ...
This written activity is an alternative assignment that you can use to give the students a grade for the day they missed, or for a day of PE from home. It provides a link to a page on the CDC website about physical activity, and the worksheet provides 7 questions that the students must answer to receive their cr
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PE Central exists to assist teachers and other adults in helping children become physically active and healthy for a lifetime. We are happy to present a large number of paper and pencil assessment ideas for you to use in your physical education program. No Quacks About It: You Can Assess Handout!
NASA SCoPE (NASA SMD Community of Practice for Engagement) offers small Seed Grant funding and Event Facilitation Grants to early career scientists and engineers to work with NASA Science Activation teams and participate in educational outreach opportunities. These proposals communicate NASA science through the creation of inspiring educational materials that are effective, scientifically ...
We recommend a simple yet comprehensive approach for defining decision rights. We call it DARE, which stands for deciders, advisers, recommenders, and executors: Deciders are the only ones with a vote (unlike the RACI model, which helps determine who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed). If the deciders get stuck, they should jointly agree on how to escalate the decision or ...
High School PE Lesson Ideas. Volley Sports. Volleyball Unit Plan. 9-12. 36,193. 1/6/2020. High School PE Lesson Ideas. Class Management. Daily Routines-Goal Setting in High School PE Unit Plan.
Recreational Activities. Fishing. Written By. Image. Greg Thompson. Published. Jun 21, 2024. Endangered Species Act. Related Stories. Endangered Species Act. Songs for Species. Jan 2, 2024. Migratory Species. I'm a fish (Gonna spawn till I die): an original song by the Fish and Wildlife Band. May 28, 2024.
On May 21st, 2024, NASA SCoPE (NASA SMD Community of Practice for Engagement) held its first Virtual Networking event for 2024 in direct response to community feedback from annual surveys requesting more networking opportunities. This event series aims to connect early career scientists, engineers, and NASA Science Activation teams, providing a platform for networking and […]
These assignments are designed to ensure the students are exercising outside of school. Each assignment focuses on a different fitness component to improves their overall fitness levels. This is a homework assignment that gives students a health related topic with questions about that reading. Along with the reading the students must complete a ...
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