In this third and final part, after having previously discussed what basic movement patterns are and how to structure them to strengthen and train young people with visual impairments, we’ll now see how to measure them.
I want to make clear that these measurements are not an end in themselves, but instead should be part of a teaching process, and therefore aim to monitor the increments and validity of proposals. They can be proposed by the teacher and performed by students as “work in progress,” where everyone takes care of everyone else’s development. The students themselves can even suggest the exercises and measure the results. In this way, they experience and enjoy “life skills” and “sharing to caring,” typical examples of a modern Montessori education.
I love to design with the idea that all of the members of a class or group of friends, or a group doing psychomotor or sports activity, can move together. I design and propose interdisciplinary activities that don’t depend on sight (obviously they benefit from sight, but are not exclusively dependent on it).
The program in an Excel file, indicated here as FOSSATI basic movement pattern file, is indicated, with great pleasure and in a spirit of sharing, in the following link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13G1b2D5XZQSj77ao9fH9EEn8qmu6P2TI....
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A look at the program shows that the teacher can evaluate the participants’ performance simply and easily. The simple graphics ensures precision of the proposal, marking of the result, and rapid recognition of strong and weak points, in order to understand where the teaching actions might be encouraged.
The Excel file, based on a spread sheet, lets you measure the 10 performances quantitatively. These are: walking, running, jumping, rolling, crawling, throwing, grasping, kicking, squeezing, pulling, and climbing. Three tests are performed for each of these indicators and the average value of these three tests is inserted in a column.
This value is then inserted in a graph, where different colors indicate what each student can already do and what he/she still has to learn.
I imagine that as soon as you observe the program you’ll have no problem understanding its use and effectiveness regarding the overall evaluation of every participant and member of the group.
The obvious conclusion regarding these three articles is that I can create an open-source work, a system that can be improved by means of everyone’s work and input. The aim is to allow young people with visual impairments to strengthen their basic movement patterns and then their body schema so that they may move freely in their environs.
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