Sarah Nadrowski Wins All-Around National Title

Congratulations to Sarah Nadrowski a Cortland PE Senior who won the all-around title at the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) Championships, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.  The Cortland team won third place overall. More details can be found here.

Non-Traditional Students Inducted into Honor Society

Congratulations to two of Cortland PE students and Rockstar PE Alum Tracy McClure and Nate Davis for being elected to membership in Alpha Sigma Lambda, an international honor society recognizing the academic achievements of non-traditional students.

Alpha Sigma Lambda national standards reserve membership for students who are in the top 10 percent of all non-traditional students at the College. Members must have completed 24 credits hours of work at SUNY Cortland with a grade point average of 3.2 or higher. For the inductees to be in the top 10 percent of students at SUNY Cortland this year, they needed to have a GPA of 3.65 or greater.  The GPA range for this group of students inducted was 3.65 to 4.22.

Tracy McClure - Blog - ePortfolio

Nate Davis - Blog - ePortfolio

via Cortland News

Portfolio Showcase Spring 2012 including 4 ePortfolios

The Cortland PE Department awarded 16 teacher-candidates with Honors on their Portfolios during the Spring 2012 Portfolio Showcase at Park Center on Thursday April 26, 2012.  The recipients were J. Trenton Jones, Anthony DiRienzo, Melanie Matassa, Rebekah Fredickson, Jessica Volz, Bree Zogaria, Jamie Boldish, Andrew Hettinger, Nicole Petit, Sunnie Bifarella, Pete Johnson, Lima Stafford, Carlee Hoyt, Kimberly Quartier, Michelle Krisa, and Charles Giardino.

Please take notice that the first four recipients had Electronic Portfolios and that more and more people are choosing to represent their ability to meet NCATE Initial Teacher Standards with this tool. Click here to find out more information on how to start your own ePortfolio.  To date there have been nearly 200 ePortfolios created from current Cortland PE teacher-candidates and alumni and to see more samples and get directions to creating your own, please click here. In fact 11 of the 16 recipients all have blogs and ePortfolios.  Congratulations and Good Luck during Student-Teaching.

Motor Development Videos & Concert Spring 2012

In PED 201 - Motor Development (with Assistant Professor Stephen Yang), students are given this project assignment to produce a representation of their understanding for a particular chapter. Each group must complete a musical video/song with lyrics appropriately explaining/teaching the audience the most important concepts. They will also have to perform in front of an audience which gives them another opportunity to show their commitment to communication and performing with passion. All part of becoming a Rockstar PE Teacher http://www.rockstarpe.org/ 

Come to Poolside next Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 12:30pm to catch this semester's latest and greatest performances.  Come out to support this semester's groups and perhaps catch some repeat performances from previous groups.

Past videos and performances.



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