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20 th Annual Southeast Michigan Physical Education Workshop Back row: Patti Dawes (charter school), Stefan Pitcoff (charter school), Roger Jackson (MAHPERD executive director), Keith Verellan (Catholic school), Nancy Thoenes (retired Fraser), Bob Marijanovich (Walled Lake), Sue Kendall (Catholic school). Front row: Jennifer Rivera (Livonia), Suzanna Dillon (COE), Carolyn McGannon (WSU), Carol Poenisch (Detroit), Nancy Overman (WSU), Joyce Krause (COE), Sarah Erbaugh (COE), Cherie Welch (Rochester). By Ms. Joyce Krause The Division of Kinesiology, Health and Sports Studies held its 20 th Annual Southeast Michigan Physical Education Workshop on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills, MI. This annual workshop is presented in conjunction with the Michigan Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (MAHPERD), the school districts of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties, and the Archdiocese of Detroit. The presenters from Wayne State University included: Dr. Suzanna Dillon, Dr. Mariane Fahlman, Master Yong Kil, Tamara Rinehart-Lee, and Amy Tischler. The array of other presenters represented the school districts of Detroit, Ferndale, Fraser, Livonia, Troy, Walled Lake, and Woodhaven as well as St. Fabian and Bishop Kelley Catholic Schools. Special thanks to the physical educators from Detroit Country Day Middle School. They gave workshop sessions on golf, lacrosse, and wall climbing while extending a warm hand of hospitality with the use of their fabulous facility. Dr. Sarah Erbaugh, KHS assistanst dean, has been on the planning committee of this endeavor since its inception in the 1980s. She has always heartily endorsed the value of providing professional development and networking opportunities for teachers in the tri-county area. The entire planning committee meets throughout the year and provides the structure for the event. The members of the committee are: Patti Dawes (Detroit charter school), Suzanna Dillon (COE), Sarah Erbaugh (COE), Sue Kendall (Catholic schools), Joyce Krause (WSU-retired Detroit), Mike LeMerise (WSU-retired Utica), Bob Marijanovich (Walled Lake), Patrice McAuliffe (Detroit), Carolyn McGannon (WSU-retired Detroit), Nancy Overman (WSU-retired Birmingham), Stefan Pitcoff (Melvindale charter school), Carol Poenisch (Detroit), Mary Ann Reardon (Woodhaven), Jennifer Rivera (Livonia), Bo Shen (COE), Amy Tischler (COE) and Nancy Thoenes (WSU-Fraser). Everyone had a great day enjoying the following workshops: CPR certification, wall climbing, golf, lacrosse, weight training, yoga, basketball, fitness, warm ups, badminton, tae kwon do, dance for the high school and elementary, officiating, reaching out to non-athletes in the gym, management during the first week of school, GLCEs for adapted physical education and assessment. Clearly, there was a workshop for every interest. Teachers and COE kinesiology majors went away with healthier bodies and smiling faces. 12
Student Research By Dr. Nate McCaughtry KHS doctoral candidate Sara Flory is collecting data for her dissertation entitled “Early Career Physical Educators’ Perspectives of Learning to Teach in Urban Schools.” For this research, Sara is working with three physical education (PE) teachers who currently teach PE in urban schools, did not grow up in urban areas, and who have between three and eight years of teaching experience. Through daily teacher observations and one-on-one interviews, Sara is answering five specific research questions. First, she is interested in learning how teachers’ experiences before physical education teacher education (PETE) influence their early career experiences. Second, Sara wants to know how teachers’ experiences during their PETE programs influence their early career experiences. Third, she is interested in determining what challenges and dilemmas that early career PE teachers face when teaching in urban schools. Fourth, Sara wants to examine the impact that differences in cultural backgrounds between urban students and teachers have on teachers' early career experiences. Finally, Sara is interested in the role that emotion plays in urban physical education teachers' early career development. This dissertation topic is especially interesting to Sara because of her previous work with urban PE teachers as a graduate research assistant with her advisor, Dr. Nate McCaughtry, for the Detroit Healthy Youth Initiative and Generation With Promise. Ultimately, Sara hopes her dissertation findings will lead to improvements in how PETE programs prepare pre-service teachers to be effective in all teaching situations, but especially for those who ultimately find employment in urban schools. Sara recently accepted a position at the University of South Florida in Tampa as an assistant professor in the College of Education's School of Physical Education and Exercise Science. Her responsibilities include teaching courses in secondary physical education, and she will continue her research on culture and physical education in the surrounding county school districts. By Dr. Qin Lai Attila Kovacs, a former WSU graduate student, completed his Ph.D in the Motor Neuroscience program at Texas A&M University. He is a post-doctoral research associate at the Human Brain and Behavior Laboratory within the Center for Complex System and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University, which is a world-renown research laboratory. During his work as Ph.D student, Attila’s research focus was oriented towards identifying the mechanisms by which unimanual and bimanual sequential and continuous movements are learned, represented, processed and stored, as well as to identify constraining and facilitating factors that influence the learning and control of these movements. This work resulted in numerous publications in high impact factor peer reviewed journals. Within the theoretical framework of Coordination Dynamics, Attila’s primary interest is oriented towards understanding how coordination among specialized regions of the brain underlies human ability to attend, perceive, learn, remember, decide and act. Coordination dynamics is an overarching conceptual framework that describes, explains and predicts how patterns of coordination form and change at multiple levels of brain and behavior. Presently, Attila is working on research projects aimed at showing how the same principles of coordination dynamics that govern the dynamics of brain activity and behavior within a single person, also apply to human brains and behavior working together in social settings. To this extent, he is conducting experiments employing interpersonal behavioral paradigms while simultaneously recording dual electroencephalography (EEG) activity. In Memory of Jane Fink For many years, Jane Fink chaired the undergraduate physical education group, coordinated the program area and taught the elementary physical education methods courses. Her additional roles included student teaching supervision and academic advising. She was very well liked by everyone, faculty and students alike. Jane passed on March 2, 2010 at the age of 91 in Lexington, Kentucky. 13
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Page 3 and 4: Learning Communities By Dr. Bo Shen
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Page 7 and 8: Lifetime Fitness Activities By Ms.
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