Curriculum Models

5 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 Approaches to building a
QUALITY PE curriculum
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Using a model that is functioning at another

school.
Adaptation of an existing model
Construct a new model

The 8 most common organizing

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Physical skills
Physical fitness components
Wellness knowledge and activities
Movement themes
Analysis of movement elements
Student motives
Disciplinary knowledge
Social development themes

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

Categories of activities

Team sports
Lifetime sports
Dance
Physical fitness activities
Recreational games
Outdoor adventure activities
Aquatics
Nontraditional activities

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

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.

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.


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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.

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

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

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

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

Levels of Social Competence:

0 Irresponsible
1 Self-control
2 Involvement
3 Self-responsibility
4 Caring
5 Going beyond