| For someone who played and loved sports as a child, | | | | basketball in a small gym with a large class and |
| I never really liked my P.E. classes. P.E. classes never | | | | prevents numerous players from sitting out at any |
| seemed like real sports. Apparently, I am not alone. | | | | time. The PBDL teaches basic skills using a game-play |
| In an article titled "Student Activity Levels During a | | | | model, enabling beginners and experienced players to |
| Season of Sport Education," Peter A. Hastie and | | | | play the game together. |
| Stewart G. Trost write (Pediatric Exercise Science, | | | | If a physical education teacher uses a block practice |
| 2002): | | | | instruction model for basketball, the teacher may |
| Sidentop has suggested that most sport within | | | | focus on a simple skill like lay-ups or dribbling the |
| physical education rarely reproduces those features | | | | basketball on the first day, but knowledge of lay-ups |
| of sport that lead to its attractiveness, resulting in | | | | does not enable one to play a game or join |
| student claims of irrelevancy and boredom. | | | | confidently into a scrimmage. However, through a |
| In the paper, the intervention measures the | | | | game-play model like the PBDL, beginners learn new |
| effectiveness of using a more sport or team-oriented | | | | skills like dribbling the basketball and making lay-ups |
| approach to physical education which Sidentop | | | | while engaged in actual game-like play. |
| called Sport Education; essentially imagining the block | | | | A P.E. teacher has two goals: (1) increase physical |
| of time devoted to one sport as a mini-season. The | | | | activity (fitness) and (2) teach/develop sport-skills. |
| intervention found that Sport Education can produce | | | | The concept of Sport Education enables instructors |
| sufficient levels of moderate-vigorous activity, while | | | | to meet these goals simultaneously, and |
| not discriminating against lower-skilled players. | | | | thePlaymakers Basketball Development League is a |
| The Playmakers Basketball Development League | | | | planned, organized six-week curriculum that uses the |
| offers an ideal Sport Education curriculum for the | | | | same ideas as Sport Education as a means for |
| basketball lesson of a physical education class. | | | | player development, learning and fun with youth |
| The PBDL addresses the difficulties of playing | | | | basketball players. |