Wednesday 22 March 2017

Trust And The Beep Test

Recently we have been learning about what it means to be a trustworthy team member.

There are many times in school and outside of school that we work together with others. In some of these instances, if one person does not play their part well enough, then the team will fail to achieve what they wanted. Koru 1 have identified some understanding of this when we constructed our learner licence criteria, which includes the statement, 'Contributes to a positive, supportive, and exciting learning community'.

One of the ways we have brought focus to this is in doing the beep test. Many adults will remember it form their own school days.

In pairs, we had one person doing the physical test while the other observed and kept a tally chart of each length run by the first person. The observer carried a lot of responsibility on their shoulders because the beep test is not easy and everyone running it wanted their scores recorded correctly.









We had some great efforts from many of our peers who were running. Talk about getting a sweat up!

When it came to the observing, we had lots of successful observers who accurately recorded each of their partner's lengths. However, there were a few instances when concentration lapsed and some observers missed marking lengths.

This was an interesting exercise for us, and one we are sure to remember, as the trust that we put into our peers was such an interesting topic for discussion afterwards. Did I show I was a trustworthy partner? Would my partner choose me to work with again? If not, what feedback are they giving me and what does this mean for me in the future?

Evidence of our reflections can be found in our digital portfolios. Some of us have also decided to write blog posts about our experience.

31 comments:

  1. Wow the beep test was so fun and challenging at the same time. My buddy was Zavier and he was a great buddy, he was able to record my markings with a tally chart and he recorded my scores accurately.

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  2. I did like the beep test because I had people cheering for me and I did trust my partneer.

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  3. I really enjoyed the beep test that day i think everyone did there best and tryed there best+it was lots of fun

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  4. This was really fun and I thought I had a really trust worthy partner and I hope we do it in the futre it did get a little bit tiring though but it was really fun I thought a I did good and I improve quite a bit cause we did it last year and Inwas only in the 20's and I got 52 or 53 and I think I improved.

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  5. Man the beep test was so tireing after all that runing I was sweating so much ๐Ÿ˜Ž And I got 167 runs ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ Thumbs up for mr k for setting it up

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  6. I really liked the beep test because it was a big challenge. My buddy was Carlos he was a good buddy and i'm pretty shore he thought that i was to. I think i have improved from last year because like Savannah said last year I only got something like 56 and this year I got 88 so i improved by 32 and that is big.

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  7. I really liked the beep test because it was fun and awsome to do.My buddy was trust worthy he recorded well.

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  8. It was tiring it was a hole new experience for me it wwas a hole new level and it was good practice for the triathalon and a big thankyounfor miss baker who set it up for us .

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  9. Wow i enjoyed the beep test it, I thought it was fun because it was't a race and we all had fun also we had trustworthy partners to sign our books and telling how much points we got by tally marks/chart. My buddy was Mackenzie she was the one th as much at kept all of my scores's I only got 101 and I
    really hope I would get more in the future.

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  10. The people that are gonna be in koru 1 I hope they have as much fun as we did

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  11. I really enjoyed the beep test because that was my first time doing the beep test and I think I did pretty well because I got 213 runs and I think my buddy got all my runs down. I wish we could do it and I would again in the future.

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  12. I really enjoyed the beep test because i got to run about 87 times then i gave up because i had the stich and i was pafed and pafed i coudent stund it any more.

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  14. For me the beep test was really fun but also tiring because once you get too a high number it gets hard

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  15. I enjoyed the beep test and I think that everybody done an amazing job. It was really fun

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  16. I would like to say good job for the people who particapated in the beep test you did a good it was real tiring I almost went to sleep. ๐Ÿ˜ด

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  17. I really liked it because i did really well and my friends that watch me at the same time as my partner did said that i did really well, plus i bet my partner (Jett) by him getting a score of 87 and me i got a score of 125! I am still proud of how much my partner got. If we add those 2 numbers (87 and 125) well...... i dont know what that would make, I know it know its now its 212 (87 + 125 =212)
    The end

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  18. The beep test was really fun. It was challenging at points, and it got harder as you went. It was really fun though!

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  19. the beep test was fun but hard and because you have to run back and ford back and ford

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  20. the bep test wasthe best thing ever thing you mr k. by madelyn

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  21. When the class first did the beep test my buddy ran and I observed.He done really well,and if I can remember of the top of my head I am pretty sure he got 115 but I am not sure. The next week I ran and I got 91. I think I probably could of got at least 100 if i did not get the stitch or get as puffed as I was.

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  22. when the class first did the beep test my buddy ran and i observed i trusted my buddy because he marked all of my points on the tally chart.when i was running half way throw i got the stich but i didn't give up.i felt so happy because i was the last one standing and if i can remember i got about 210 runs and if the beeper beeped when you wern't at the line you would get a warning and if you did it again you would be out and your buddy would have to count how much you got.

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  23. Last year room 14 I did the beep test with Mr K when he exsplained the beep test I thought it would be easy. But when I actually did it. It was harder than I thought the beeps got faster & faster its really fun & great exersize. I remember last year I got about 52 runs & this year I got 84. I hope that we can do the beep test again this year ๐Ÿ˜€.

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  24. I liked how evrey one was joyning in with the beep test

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  25. It was very exciting i thought i would at least get near 170 but anyway it was great i dont take back doing it

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  26. good job willow you got 96 rans good job koru1

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  27. It was really amazing i go really tired i got 89 runs

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  28. Good job jacob for 213 runs good job everyone in koru one.

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  29. It was so call I loved it and I got 196

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  30. Koru 1 did exallent at the beep test I think my buddy Luke did exallent I think I did great as well.

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  31. Hi Koru 1 all of us did great at the beep test me and my buddy Luke got over 100 and good job to the people that were still running after everyone got tird and went out.
    Also good job to the people that partisapated.

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