The sport education model
The sport education model offers ākonga the opportunity to experience and develop skills and social relationships through sport and being part of a team.
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This section of professional learning and teaching approaches outlines the sport education model. It has information and resources to assist teachers with effective teaching and assessment of health and physical education.
The sport education model
The sport education model has several distinctive characteristics:
- Seasons: A season involves a series of consecutive lessons (for example, 14 to 20) and involves pre-season activities, practise, and competition.
- Team affiliation: Students become members of teams for the duration of the season and assume the roles of coach, manager, and so on, as well as being players.
- Formal competition: The competition involves pre-season preparation, in-season competition, and a culminating event or festival that provides an appropriate climax to the end of the competitive season.
- Keeping records: Records may include outcomes of matches and player performance.
- Festivity: The festivity of sport can be encouraged through a sports notice board, team photos, uniforms, and honouring the rituals and traditions of the particular sport.
The sport education model provides students with opportunities to:
- participate in a realistic context
- explore ideas in, through, and about sport
- develop knowledge and skills, team identity, and social interaction skills
- take ownership and responsibility for their learning
- plan and implement the programme
- be challenged through peer support, peer encouragement, and trust
- value their contribution to the team
- receive personal and specialised skill and behavioural learning programmes due to the teacher being free from full class direct instruction.
Siedentop, D. (1994). Sport education: Quality physical education through positive sport experiences. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
This approach is incorporated into the sport studies units: