Sport Education

Question 1

What is the aim of Sport Education?

Answer 1

To create authentic sport experiences for students by experiencing sport in a holistic way and developing their motor competence and sport culture.

Question 2

What are the 6 key features of sport education?

Answer 2

1) Sport is structured around seasons.
2) Affiliation
3) Formal competition.
4) Cumulating event
5) Keeping records
6) Festivity

Question 3

What are the 4 immutable aspects of Sport Education?

Answer 3

1) The unit of work takes place over an extended period of time.
2) The idea of a persisting team.
3) The presence of developmentally appropriate competition consisting of small sided games
4) Students take on roles and responsibilities other than that of a player

Question 4

What are the roles of students?

Answer 4

Students are increasingly responsible for leadership, instructions, assessing and performing.

Question 5

What are the roles of teachers?

Answer 5

• Teachers must accommodate a shift from teacher-centred to student-centred instructions.
• Must establish strong managerial system with rules and routines.

Question 6

In Sport Education, do you need to play the ‘full’ sport?

Answer 6

No - you can modify to promote participation (e.g., 6v6 football).

Question 7

What does the amount of direct teacher instruction depend on?

Answer 7

Grade level, e.g., older students will get more autonomy.

Question 8

What are the 5 benefits of Sport Education?

Answer 8

• Allows students to be part of a team (inclusion).
• Captains get to develop leadership skills and experience role of being a coach.
  Inclusive learning environment.
• Student-centred
• Better avenue for monitoring and promoting personal growth among all players.
• Teachers and students enjoy this model.

Question 9

What is the main limitation (risk) of Sport Education?

Answer 9

Interpersonal conflict

Question 10

How do teachers address handing conflicts between students?

Answer 10

Teach social and emotional skills

Question 11

When is Sport Education most effective?

Answer 11

With games-based activities and with participants who have a good base level of competence.

Question 12

What are the 3 major goals that guide program development in Sport Education?

Answer 12

Competent, literate, enthusiastic players.

Question 13

According to Siedentop, what is a competent player?

Answer 13

A player who has sufficient skills to participate satisfactorily, can execute strategies that are appropriate for the complexity of the game being played, and is a knowledgeable player.

Question 14

According to Siedentop, what is a literate player?

Answer 14

A player who understands and values the rules, rituals, and traditions of sport, and is able to distinguish between good and bad sport practises in a variety of sport settings.

Question 15

According to Siedentop, what is an enthusiastic player?

Answer 15

One who preserves, protects, and enhances sport culture through participation, involvement, and appropriate behaviour.

Question 16

To achieve the 3 goals of Sport Education, what objectives do students need to develop..?

Answer 16

1) Develop skills and fitness specific to particular sports.
2) Appreciate and be able to execute strategic play in sports.
3) Participate at a level appropriate to their stage of development.
4) Share in planning and admin of sport experience.
5) Provide responsible leadership.
6) Work effectively within a group towards common goals.
7) Appreciate the rituals and conventions that give particular sports their unique meanings.
8) Develop the capacity to make reasoned decisions about sport issues.
9) Develop and apply knowledge about umpiring, refereeing, and training.
10) Decide voluntarily to become involved in after-school sport.

Question 17

Why is the term ‘season’ used rather than units?

Answer 17

‘Season’ makes the PE experience truer to being part of an authentic sport season.

Question 18

Name some different ways which team affiliation can be built during a season.

Answer 18

• Team names
• Team posters, flags
• Team chants
• Team uniforms
• Team mascots
• Team pictures
• Team awards

Question 19

What is the point in ‘keeping records’?

Answer 19

Records provide feedback for students and teams and encourage goal setting to improve.

Question 20

“Understanding and responding appropriately to the different aspects of culture and diversity that an individual brings to interaction. Requires valuing diversity, desiring to increase knowledge about other cultures, and striving to create spaces where diversity is integrated”

Answer 20

Cultural responsiveness

Question 21

“The ability to collaborate effectively with individuals from different cultures; such competence improves experiences and outcomes in health care, consulting with clients, and working with students and trainees in a variety of disciplines”

Answer 21

Cultural competence

Question 22

“To be aware of patterns of friendship, bullying or victimisation in order to provide individualised attention and structure classrooms in ways that make social status less relevant of reduce disparities in statues”

Answer 22

Teacher attunement

Question 23

In order, what are the 7 levels of inclusion (lowest to highest)?

Answer 23

• Maximum exclusion
• Active exclusion
• Passive exclusion
• Ambivalence
• Passive inclusion
• Active inclusion
• Maximum inclusion