School sports during Corona times - that is a special challenge.
The schools deal with it differently.
This is how the Korbinian-Aigner-Gymnasium handles the whole thing.
Erding - Almost three years ago Florian von den Stemmen cycled across the Alps with his students.
Now he's standing with juggling balls in the empty classroom, throwing them up and dropping you.
"Uuuups, that makes it 1: 1," he says, and Monika Friedrich grins.
The two belong to the sports college of the Korbinian-Aigner-Gymnasium (KAG) and are right in the middle of a joint online sports lesson in classes 10 e and 10 g.
14 girls and 29 boys from their rooms at home are connected via the Teams platform: for 45 minutes of joint sports lessons.
No, this is not the Transalp, but the teachers do need staying power.
School sports during Corona times - that is a special challenge that schools deal with differently.
During the first lockdown, physical education was canceled at the KAG.
“We used the time to intensify other subjects,” says headmistress Andrea Hafner.
Florian von den Stemmen was only an English teacher and Monika Friedrich was a math teacher.
No sport in the first lockdown
“Of course we didn't like it,” admits Norbert Jell.
He is the department head in the 16-person sports college.
However, neither the sports teachers nor the school management would have wanted another standstill during the second lockdown, which is why Hafner is delighted with the commitment: "This is outstanding, what is being achieved here."
She doesn't necessarily mean the juggling skills of her two teachers.
“2: 1”, counts Friedrich when another ball slips out of her colleague's hands.
Linus can only smile tiredly about it.
The student lets three balls spin through the air as if he were Rastelli's grandson.
Many are quite skilled with the balls, as can be seen on the whiteboard in the classroom.
Most of them have turned on their cameras today.
"You don't have to," says Friedrich, "but of course we are pleased."
Presence is controlled
Not because of the possible control of presence.
That was clarified before the lesson began.
Friedrich and von den Stemmen called on every single student.
“We take that very seriously,” explains Hafner.
"If someone does not answer, the secretariat calls home and asks whether there are any problems with the WiFi." The students also know this: "Er sorry, my name was not called, but did I not hear it?"
This is not a gag event.
Everyone takes it seriously.
Some can hardly wait to see what the Stemmen are happy about: "Zeno is already warming up."
And back into the sports lesson.
It continues with Life Kinetik - a real challenge for the brain and the musculoskeletal system.
Friedrich assigns an umbrella term to exercises: "Vegetables" means jumping jack, "weather" entails squats and so on.
Five headings, five exercises.
In the second round it is only called “aubergines” or “rain”.
The students master the double transfer effort effortlessly.
The spiritual freshness is there.
And that shortly before twelve o'clock when others are already thinking about lunch.
And don't forget: there are 15- or 16-year-olds here, i.e. young people in a phase who are not as enthusiastic about the mat as, say, fifth graders.
After the lesson, Kian also admits that this sports lesson is "relatively unimportant" for him.
"I prefer to concentrate on the main subjects," he says, but then praises the sports teachers: "I think it's very good that they try so hard."
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EA sports director Dieter Priglmeir and headmistress Andrea Hafner followed the exercises in the next-door classroom
© Günter Herkner
Because online physical education doesn't just mean doing 45 minutes.
The KAG has set up the “virtual gym” where a wide variety of exercises can be accessed (see box).
Von den Stemmen presents a video of his Transalp group from 2018. In the background, pictures of the cycling adventure run, in front of which the students perform exercises to strengthen their back and abdominal muscles.
Von der Stemmen can now also do this in sports lessons.
In the intro you can see Magdalena Neuner, who wishes the Erdingen high school students a lot of fun and demands: "Strengt's eich gscheid o!" The multiple biathlon world champion exclusively for the KAG?
“I met her once and just asked if she would do it.
She immediately said yes and was in a sauna, "he says and reveals:" We also have Andreas Birnbacher, Andreas Raelert and Lothar and Nicole Leder in store as promoters of our motion videos. "
No club is open anymore.
Sport doesn't just have to be possible in school.
It is also necessary.
Sports teacher Florian vd Stemmen
The transalp video lasts four minutes and is very busy with the students.
After all, boys and girls do exercises that have cycled 512 kilometers and 12,000 meters in altitude in seven days.
Small deductions in the B-Note: The video is a bit jerky, the sound quality could be better.
But maybe this is only the case in the classroom, and it works better on the laptop.
There are no complaints.
On the other hand, controlling how the exercises are performed is next to impossible.
There are no cameramen in the rooms to follow every movement.
“But it's not about control at all,” says von den Stemmen.
"The boys and girls should move, reduce their screen time."
But such an online sports lesson is exhausting, says Friedrich.
A double hour, otherwise quite common, is unthinkable.
So the sports teachers also give homework, like recently the winter challenge: Get some fresh air!
Build a snowman, take photos of the winter landscape.
Document everything and send it to the teachers.
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The virtual gym is full of tips.
© Günter Herkner
It works perfectly, especially in the lower grades, they say.
In turn, they offer the tenth graders the very latest, for example “Animal Movement”, the absolute trend in training theory, about which ski jumping legend Toni Innauer wrote a book: “The 12 Tyroleans”.
It's about the animal world in the Alps and the forces that they embody.
Every animal stands for exercises.
Von der Stemmen selects the alpine salamander, the cricket, the badger (“for Korbinian and other loudmouths”), the bear, the swan (“dedicated to my teacher colleague”) and (“that suits me now”) the deer.
Again, it's strength and coordination exercises.
"Team sports and ball games are just not possible now," says Friedrich.
However, this also makes co-educational sport much easier.
Here girls and boys could easily do sports together.
“I have the feeling that they even motivate each other,” says von den Stemmen.
The two sports teachers have invited a special guest to motivate themselves to today's finals.
Norbert Jell enters the room and calls for the “squat battle.
It should be at least 100 ”.
So let's go!
Jell starts counting.
"One, two ..." They can all be seen in action on the whiteboard.
Emanuel, for example, who ran the 2000 meters in 6:41 the day before.
“23, 24, 25” - Friedrich has now taken over the counting.
“Maxi is like a racehorse”, praises von den Stemmen and continues to count “58, 59, 59plus1, 61, 62”.
He gasps.
It's not that simple, even if the protective mask from profunction is “great”, as Friedrich confirms.
"15, 14, 13".
Jell, the motivational fox, is starting the countdown.
“Miriam is apparently not doing this for the first time either,” says Friedrich happily about her student, who could take part in any YouTube tutorial with her performance.
Technical breakdowns?
Nothing
99, 100!
Done?
Think.
Some continue.
Others, of course, have long since disengaged.
“You always have it.
We're not kidding ourselves, ”says von den Stemmen.
His estimate: "Two thirds of the students think it's good." And if there were fewer, it wouldn't matter.
“Children and young people are definitely less active than before.
No club is open anymore.
Sport doesn't just have to be possible in school.
It is also necessary. "
In the KAG, they go to great lengths in this regard, adds Jell, and is grateful to the school management “that they are fully behind it”.
It is of course also an advantage that “we are a school where the technology works”, which the students also confirm after the online lesson.
There was no mention of breakdowns.
That teachers drop a ball - for free.
Dieter Priglmeir
Additional offers from the KAG: The virtual gym and the Mount Everest project
Already with the “Run to Tokyo” (we reported) the KAG Sports College motivated students to do sports.
The newest destination: the summit of Mount Everest (8848 m).
For every quarter of an hour of sport there is one vertical meter.
"We are now over 2000 meters," says Norbert Jell.
It's still a long way to the base camp, which is about 5000 meters, but Jell is optimistic.
The confidence feeds on another project: The Virtual Gym is a website of the KAG, on which students and teachers present workouts.
A couple of sixth graders present ski jumping training.
And so Bavarian, as if the young Markus Eisenbichler had spoken.
Another teaches us to juggle (“If you don't have any balls at hand, take something else that can fall down”), teacher Conny von den Stemmen shows that a park bench can also be converted into a piece of sports equipment.
Florian von den Stemmen practices letter rap with fifth graders, Susie Falkenstein goes through the ABC of running in the snow.
But AOK exercises to strengthen the muscles or choreos from the Leipzig Dance Company are also discontinued.
It is a colorful variety that students and teachers can use.
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