Using Sport Education To Teach The Lifetime Sport Of Golf

Sport Education curriculum model was developed in the early 1990’s. It is instruction that is specifically designed to provide students with an experience that is both enjoyable and one that will help them live healthier lifestyles throughout their entire life. Sport education is usually broke down into different units, units that are specific to a certain sport (ex. Football, volleyball etc.). The units however are longer than a typical P.E. unit. They can range anywhere from 18-20 class sessions or 3-5 weeks. Teams are usually divided at the beginning of the unit and split in a way that they are equal and fair. As a teacher you do not want to separate you students into a high skilled group and a low skilled group, you want to mix and

The article gives an example of what a 20 day sport education golf season would look like, and I must say that it keeps the students busy and it brings a lot of excitement to what some say is a boring sport. The students were separated into teams at the beginning of the unit, like discussed earlier in this paper, and were given opportunities to learn and coach new skills with and to their teams. During this season there were team competitions built into the season, for example a putting competition, chipping, pitching short irons etc. Peer teaching was a strategy used in this unit quite often. Each of the player coaches would get a lesson on the skill being taught for the class and would then go and relay (teach) that information to their teammates. In the conclusion of the article it discussed how smooth the season went and that by using the SEM it made learning the new skills and sport enjoyable for the students versus using the traditional way of teaching sports. It also states that by using the SEM it was a great tool for instilling content knowledge of the sport in a more competitive manner (Scarboro, S., & Pritchard, T. (2015)). Speaking from experience as a PE teacher, students

I’ve noticed a lot of times just by exposing students to new sports, they take a new appreciation for it because they are learning everything about that sport, mastering skills of the specific sport and truly seeing how hard it can be. At the same time the way we set classes up they are experiencing success. When they have success or experience success they want to be involved in it more than just class, for example signing up to play football for the school because of getting that exposure to the sport through sport education in