Planning & Implementing Team & Student Roles

1. Planning & Implementing Team & Student Roles

2. Primary Student Roles Learning of multiple roles is central to the success of Sport Education • Player • Required Duty Team Roles • Team Roles • Specialist Roles

3. Primary Student Roles • Player • Contribute to team play. • Contribute to competition. • Learn techniques & tactics. • Play hard & fair. • Respect officials & opponents. • Support teammates.

4. Primary Student Roles Player Role Card

5. Primary Student Roles • Required Duty Team Roles: • Referee / Official. • Scorekeeper. • Learn techniques & tactics. • Play hard and fair. • Respect officials and opponents. • Support teammates.

6. Primary Student Roles • Team Roles • Coach. For ex. • Captain. • Manager. • Fitness Specialist. • Publicist. • Commentator.

7. Primary Student Roles • Specialist Roles • Ball Retriever (Volleyball). For ex. • Safety Judge (Archery; Golf) • Down Marker (Flag Football.). • Course Marshall (X-country). • Choreographer (Dance). • Place Judge (Track & Field).

8. Notes on Refereeing Consider the following: • Give students chances to learn the role! • Explain primary role of the referee. • Modified games can help simplify the the process of learning to officiate. • Use pre-season for practice of this role!

9. Choosing Roles For A Season Factors to consider: • Clearly define the roles! • Build in class-time to teach all the roles. • Students must get practice learning the roles. • Build in accountability. • Provide resources needed to fulfill roles.

10. A Word On Statistics Remember: • Keep it simple. • As with all roles, practice is vital. • Learning about statistics (“how” & “why”) is part of becoming more literate about the sport. • Scorekeeping skills will transfer across sports.

11. Creating Conditions For Successful Performance Central teacher tasks: • Establish importance of the various roles. • Assign accountability for role performance. • Prepare supporting materials (e.g., team binders; score sheets; equipment; duty team box/-cart).

12. Including All Students In Sport Education: • With diverse roles, physical limitations need not keep students from active participation. • Lower-skilled students are more likely to thrive when contributing through non-player roles.

13. Sports Boards Especially effective at secondary school level programs • Increased student input in decision- making process of organizing & designing season. • Direct focus on personal growth.

14. Sports Boards (cont’d.) Possible functions: • Assist in competition planning. • Share ideas - offer feedback to teacher. • Be role models. • Plan culminating event(s). • Ensure smooth running of the season.

15. Conflict Resolution Committee It would handle: • Concerns of fair play violations, • Complaints from / about referees, and • Game protests.

16. Sport Education & Personal/Social Development • Personal / social development never occurs in isolation. • SE’s diverse roles directly target the related objectives. • Roles need to be defined, taught, practiced & are part of team performance.