Curriculum Models

1. Curriculum Models (5)

2. Curriculum Models • All 5 share 3 common characteristics: • Provides an overall philosophy and scheme that underlies the PE curriculum • Includes a set of beliefs and goals that evolve from a theoretical framework or value base. • Predicts interrelationships between content and the instructional process.

3. 3 Approaches to building a QUALITY PE curriculum • Using a model that is functioning at another school. • Adaptation of an existing model • Construct a new model

4. The 8 most common organizing centers • Physical skills • Physical fitness components • Wellness knowledge and activities • Movement themes • Analysis of movement elements • Student motives • Disciplinary knowledge • Social development themes

5. 1. Skill Development Model • Most commonly used • Broad-based multi-activity approach • Uses units of physical activity or sport as the basic core of the curriculum • Primary focus is on learning motor skills • Units vary in length • Activities changes on desires/needs/interests

6. Categories of activities • Team sports • Lifetime sports • Dance • Physical fitness activities • Recreational games • Outdoor adventure activities • Aquatics • Nontraditional activities

7. Offers a choice • Increased student motivation • Fewer problems with dressing out • Better use of teaching expertise • Improved instruction over time • Increased teacher motivation and enthusiasm • Considers proficiency levels • Beginner, intermediate, advanced

8. 2. Sports Education Model • Activity based approach • Primary objective is to help students become skilled sports participants and good sports people • Allows students to experience the positive values of sports in a manner similar to being involved in an interscholastic sports program.

9. Goal is to help students experience such qualities as working to reach a deferred goal, teamwork, loyalty, commitment, perseverance, dedication, and concern for other people. • Outcome is that students become competent, literate, and enthusiastic sports participants.

10. Six characteristics: • Involves seasons rather than units • Students quickly become members of teams • Formal schedule of competition • Usually a major culminating event • Records are kept and publicized • Teachers assume role of coaches.

11. 3. Knowledge Concepts Model • Focus is on knowledge and cognitive understanding through the various subdisciplines of PE • Students learn the how and why of PE through involvement in problem-solving experiments • Less emphasis on doing activities

12. 4. Fitness Education Model • Focuses on imparting physical fitness concepts to students • IS active; HAS knowledge; VALUES regular activity; IS fit • Fitness to Life approach: places instructional emphasis on lecture, lab experiments, and exercise programs for use in adulthood

13. Follows “stairway to lifetime fitness” – if students climb the lifetime fitness stairway, they will be more likely so be active throughout life. Levels of independence Lifetime fitness Lifetime activity Level of decision making___ Self Planning Self-assessment of fitness and activity Level of dependence Getting fit Doing activity and exercise

14. 5. Social Development Model • Focuses on enhancing social competence, self-control, responsible behavior, and concern for others. • Sports and physical activities are used as a means of accomplishing social goals

15. Levels of Social Competence: 0 – Irresponsible 1 – Self-control 2 – Involvement 3 – Self-responsibility 4 – Caring 5 – Going beyond