Playmakers Basketball Development League as Physical Education Curriculum

For someone who played and loved sports as a child

, I never really liked my P.E. classes. P.E. classes never seemed like real sports. Apparently, I am not alone. In an article titled "Student Activity Levels During a Season of Sport Education," Peter A. Hastie and Stewart G. Trost write (Pediatric Exercise Science, 2002):

Sidentop has suggested that most sport within physical education rarely reproduces those features of sport that lead to its attractiveness, resulting in student claims of irrelevancy and boredom.

In the paper, the intervention measures the effectiveness of using a more sport or team-oriented approach to physical education which Sidentop calledSport Education; essentially imagining the block of time devoted to one sport as a mini-season. The intervention found thatSport Education can produce sufficient levels of moderate-vigorous activity, while not discriminating against lower-skilled players.

ThePlaymakers Basketball Development League offers an idealSport Education curriculum for the basketball lesson of a physical education class. ThePBDL addresses the difficulties of playing basketball in a small gym with a large class and prevents numerous players from sitting out at any time. ThePBDL teaches basic skills using a game-play model, enabling beginners and experienced players to play the game together.

If a physical education teacher uses a block practice instruction model for basketball, the teacher may focus on a simple skill like lay-ups or dribbling the basketball on the first day, but knowledge of lay-ups does not enable one to play a game or join confidently into a scrimmage. However, through a game-play model like thePBDL, beginners learn new skills like dribbling the basketball and making lay-ups while engaged in actual game-like play.

A P.E. teacher has two goals: (1) increase physical activity (fitness) and (2) teach/develop sport-skills. The concept ofSport Education enables instructors to meet these goals simultaneously, and thePlaymakers Basketball Development League is a planned, organized six-week curriculum that uses the same ideas asSport Education as a means for player development, learning and fun with youth basketball players.

Playmakers Basketball Development League as Physical Education Curriculum

By: Brian McCormick

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