Sport Education: Quality PE Through Positive Sport Experiences Book

This book details how sport can help students learn fair play, leadership and "followership" skills, and self-responsibility in addition to becoming competent players. And it shows physical educators how to implement effective sport education programs within their physical education classes to achieve these goals. In Sport Education, world-renowned sport pedagogist Daryl Siedentop explains his innovative Sport Education Model and provides school-tested, ready-to-use plans for applying the model to specific sports and fitness activities. Part I describes the Sport Education Model and the curriculum and instructional methods used to implement it. Part II presents many examples of how the model has been used effectively in school settings. Each example features complete descriptions of program planning and procedures--readers can begin using the models immediately for successful results. The examples demonstrate that students in effective sport education programs not only become skillful in game play, they also ? become more enthusiastic participants, ? learn fair play, ? learn to perform competently in other areas of sport (such as managing, refereeing, and scorekeeping), ? learn self-responsibility, and ? become better equipped to function as both leaders and team players. Plus, sport education programs help low-skilled students, and those who tend not to participate, to become active and valued team members. Part III explains methods of evaluation and assessment. A special chapter shows how the Sport Education Model can be used to develop an "Olympic" curriculum that incorporates the global education, multicultural education, and personal development goals of Olympism and provides a unifying theme for the sport education program.Read More