ABSTRACT
Teaching and learning the many forms of institutionalized sport have been central to physical education in the United States for more than 100 years. The traditional benefits of participation in sport—skill, strategy, cooperation, and healthy competition—were often used as the curricular objectives for teaching sport at all grade levels. The basic structure of Sport Education is adapted from the familiar model of organized sport leagues. In Sport Education, all students are players, but they also learn one or more of the other roles needed to make the league operate. Students in the Sport Education model take active roles in making decisions that determine the structure and operation of the league—they are not passive participants. The Sport Education model relies heavily on cooperative learning strategies, in which teams hold much of the responsibility to get prepared for the season.
