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How to Plan a MYP-PHE UNIT - STEP by STEP

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The main goal of this blog is to share my beliefs, resources, strategies, and methods about teaching Physical and Health Education in the IB MYP Program. Before joining IB school I went through a Teacher Preparation Program certified by the University British of Columbia, so I had an opportunity to learn the IB program for 1 year before joining the school to teach MYP. We are very few teachers that had this opportunity most of the teachers know the Program while they are already teaching and they easily make mistakes and get frustrated between what they know and what they have to learn while working.

To give my support to the new teachers in the IB program I will be sharing a lot of resources to help them and address topics that will give them ideas on how to deal with some situations related to teaching and learning.

For the experienced teachers, I look forward to learning from you, discussing and collaborating so together we can support new teachers.

My name is Elves Domingos Tembe, I am a Physical Health Education teacher from Mozambique, currently teaching MYP ( Middle Year Program).

In this text, I will talk about the process I take to plan an MYP - PHE Fitness Unit, in case you have any questions or doubts feel free to write in the comments section below, and don't forget to like, and follow me to receive all texts I will be writing.

Let's Start

This is a real situation:

Before closing the school, I discussed with my head of department the units we will be teaching when we come back from the holidays. Looking at our curriculum overview we saw that it's time to focus on Fitness Unit. In my current school, because they have been teaching for a long time they have their Curriculum Overview well structured and a lot of units planned but the head of departments always gives me an opportunity to bring my ideas to the units.

This is different from the school I come from because I was the only PHE MYP teacher, so I had to make decisions myself and create a curriculum overview it took me 2 years to have an established Curriculum overview, and when I moved to my new school I was surprised with a number of resources they had, it's difficult to start from the beginning and I left my country thinking that I would start from the beginning but they had a lot of units, resources to support students and teachers.

But being a new teacher I decided to learn from them and follow their curriculum overview. I did not want to change the sequence of the units that were being taught, the only thing I do is to plan the units in my own way and discuss them with my head of department.

So now I will show you how I planned the fitness unit:

My units have to be special and motivational for the students, I want to tell the students the unit title and see their faces shine and start asking questions. So I asked myself, what I will call this fitness unit?

It's for grade 10, I start to think about my students, and what they like, and I thought about calling the unit BATTLE, but I was not happy because just battle would be open. What pushed me to be battle, during the conversation with the HOD we decided that the students would identify their areas of improvement in components of fitness then a classmate would help them to beat their best. So it would be a battle between their current level of fitness with what they want to achieve.

I made a short research about the battle, I added Fitness Battle and I liked what I found, so my Final unit Time will be

FITNESS BATTLE (ME VS ME)

After having a unit title I move to the MYP guide to look at the concepts. And the first one is the key concept - Make sure you choose only one key concept, about the related concepts I normally work with 2 but during my training and the IB workshop I did I learn that you could use 1,2 or even 3 related concepts. For me, 2 is enough to explore with the students.

Let's look at the key concepts.

For MYP-PHE we normally use the highlighted concepts, so for my unit, I decided to use CHANGE if you ask, why?

We want students to focus on their fitness, look at their current level of fitness and work in order to be a better version of themself, so CHANGE is a concept that we can explore in order to learn how this change works in the world and how it can work for people sound them and for them?

The next step is to decide about the related concepts, lets's see the option we have, remember I will only select 2 but you can work with 1,2 or even 3.

For the related concepts we can use any of the options we have in the table, for my unit students will work in pairs we already discussed that with my HOD, and we want them to coach each other to have a coach-client relationship, and for that exploring, INTERACTION is a better option for me, and because of the changes, they will have to make I thought about CHOICES that they will take into consideration on their journey of change.

So I am ready to come up with my conceptual understanding I have all I want, and teachers that have been teaching for a long time use skip this point, but is very important to have a conceptual understanding before moving to the Statement of inquiry.

KEY CONCEPT: CHANGE
RELATED CONCEPT: INTERACTION AND CHOICE
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: Healthy interactions and choices can bring change.

Now I am ready to create my SOI, sometimes this process is very fast and sometimes it takes me days to decide which concepts I will explore so that my students can benefit from them and make an interesting bridge from the school to the real-life situation. Sometimes when I am about to sleep I see myself thinking about the concepts I want at which statement of inquiry will be exciting for my students.

Now we need a Global context and area of exploration to be able to come up with a statement of inquiry for that I always look at the document and read them again, it's important to plan your units with all these resources, and I will make sure I leave them here for you.

Lets see the Global context and areas of exploration:

See the complete document here.

To choose the global context I normally look at the area I would like to explore with my students. Again we are talking about Fitness and our key concept is CHANGE, now what I want my students to understand in this world that will require them to change so that they can achieve desired goals, I go for LIFESTYLE CHOICES, that is an area of exploration of the IDENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS.

Now I can move to the final step which is the statement of inquiry, we have

KEY CONCEPT: CHANGE
RELATED CONCEPT: INTERACTION AND CHOICE
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: Healthy interactions and choices can bring change.
GLOBAL CONTEXT : IDENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS, Area of exploration: Lifestyle choices.

What we need to do now, is to create a sentence with all those concepts and we will have our Statement Of Inquiry - SOI.

It is not easy to come up with SOI, and it can be frustrating to find a great sentence that will make students discuss and ask questions about it.

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How to Plan a MYP-PHE UNIT - STEP by STEP

To give my support to the new teachers in the IB program I will be sharing a lot of resources to help them and address topics that will give them ideas on how to deal with some situations related to teaching and learning.

For the experienced teachers, I look forward to learning from you, discussing and collaborating so together we can support new teachers.

My name is Elves Domingos Tembe, I am a Physical Health Education teacher from Mozambique, currently teaching MYP ( Middle Year Program).

In this text, I will talk about the process I take to plan an MYP - PHE Fitness Unit, in case you have any questions or doubts feel free to write in the comments section below, and don't forget to like, and follow me to receive all texts I will be writing.

Let's Start

This is a real situation:

But being a new teacher I decided to learn from them and follow their curriculum overview. I did not want to change the sequence of the units that were being taught, the only thing I do is to plan the units in my own way and discuss them with my head of department.

So now I will show you how I planned the fitness unit:

My units have to be special and motivational for the students, I want to tell the students the unit title and see their faces shine and start asking questions. So I asked myself, what I will call this fitness unit?

I made a short research about the battle, I added Fitness Battle and I liked what I found, so my Final unit Time will be

FITNESS BATTLE (ME VS ME)

For MYP-PHE we normally use the highlighted concepts, so for my unit, I decided to use CHANGE if you ask, why?

We want students to focus on their fitness, look at their current level of fitness and work in order to be a better version of themself, so CHANGE is a concept that we can explore in order to learn how this change works in the world and how it can work for people sound them and for them?

The next step is to decide about the related concepts, lets's see the option we have, remember I will only select 2 but you can work with 1,2 or even 3.

So I am ready to come up with my conceptual understanding I have all I want, and teachers that have been teaching for a long time use skip this point, but is very important to have a conceptual understanding before moving to the Statement of inquiry.

KEY CONCEPT: CHANGE
RELATED CONCEPT: INTERACTION AND CHOICE
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: Healthy interactions and choices can bring change.

Now we need a Global context and area of exploration to be able to come up with a statement of inquiry for that I always look at the document and read them again, it's important to plan your units with all these resources, and I will make sure I leave them here for you.

Lets see the Global context and areas of exploration:

See the complete document here.

Now I can move to the final step which is the statement of inquiry, we have

KEY CONCEPT: CHANGE
RELATED CONCEPT: INTERACTION AND CHOICE
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: Healthy interactions and choices can bring change.
GLOBAL CONTEXT : IDENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS, Area of exploration: Lifestyle choices.

What we need to do now, is to create a sentence with all those concepts and we will have our Statement Of Inquiry - SOI.

It is not easy to come up with SOI, and it can be frustrating to find a great sentence that will make students discuss and ask questions about it.

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To give my support to the new teachers in the IB program I will be sharing a lot of resources to help them and address topics that will give them ideas on how to deal with some situations related to teaching and learning.

For the experienced teachers, I look forward to learning from you, discussing and collaborating so together we can support new teachers.

My name is Elves Domingos Tembe, I am a Physical Health Education teacher from Mozambique, currently teaching MYP ( Middle Year Program).

In this text, I will talk about the process I take to plan an MYP - PHE Fitness Unit, in case you have any questions or doubts feel free to write in the comments section below, and don't forget to like, and follow me to receive all texts I will be writing. Let's Start

This is a real situation:

But being a new teacher I decided to learn from them and follow their curriculum overview. I did not want to change the sequence of the units that were being taught, the only thing I do is to plan the units in my own way and discuss them with my head of department.

So now I will show you how I planned the fitness unit:

My units have to be special and motivational for the students, I want to tell the students the unit title and see their faces shine and start asking questions. So I asked myself, what I will call this fitness unit?

I made a short research about the battle, I added Fitness Battle and I liked what I found, so my Final unit Time will be

FITNESS BATTLE (ME VS ME)

For MYP-PHE we normally use the highlighted concepts, so for my unit, I decided to use CHANGE if you ask, why?

We want students to focus on their fitness, look at their current level of fitness and work in order to be a better version of themself, so CHANGE is a concept that we can explore in order to learn how this change works in the world and how it can work for people sound them and for them?

The next step is to decide about the related concepts, lets's see the option we have, remember I will only select 2 but you can work with 1,2 or even 3.

So I am ready to come up with my conceptual understanding I have all I want, and teachers that have been teaching for a long time use skip this point, but is very important to have a conceptual understanding before moving to the Statement of inquiry.

KEY CONCEPT: CHANGE RELATED CONCEPT: INTERACTION AND CHOICE CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: Healthy interactions and choices can bring change.

Now we need a Global context and area of exploration to be able to come up with a statement of inquiry for that I always look at the document and read them again, it's important to plan your units with all these resources, and I will make sure I leave them here for you.

Lets see the Global context and areas of exploration:

See the complete document here.

Now I can move to the final step which is the statement of inquiry, we have

KEY CONCEPT: CHANGE RELATED CONCEPT: INTERACTION AND CHOICE CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: Healthy interactions and choices can bring change. GLOBAL CONTEXT : IDENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS, Area of exploration: Lifestyle choices.

What we need to do now, is to create a sentence with all those concepts and we will have our Statement Of Inquiry - SOI.

It is not easy to come up with SOI, and it can be frustrating to find a great sentence that will make students discuss and ask questions about it.

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In this text, I will talk about the process I take to plan an MYP - PHE Fitness Unit, in case you have any questions or doubts feel free to write in the comments section below, and don't forget to like, and follow me to receive all texts I will be writing.

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KEY CONCEPT: CHANGE
RELATED CONCEPT: INTERACTION AND CHOICE
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: Healthy interactions and choices can bring change.

KEY CONCEPT: CHANGE
RELATED CONCEPT: INTERACTION AND CHOICE
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: Healthy interactions and choices can bring change.
GLOBAL CONTEXT : IDENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS, Area of exploration: Lifestyle choices.