Google Slides is useful for the more public facing elements of the structure. In Sport Education, festivity and culminating events are important because they give emotional weight and a sense of closure to the season (Siedentop, 2002; Wallhead & O’Sullivan, … Read More
Google Classroom functions as the main hub where the course structure lives. If a unit is treated as a season of inquiry, Classroom becomes the locker room, notice board, and fixtures list at the same time. Topics can be organised … Read More
Google Sheets is where the season really becomes visible. In Sport Education, record keeping is central. Scores, standings, fair play points, and role performance are tracked over time and used for feedback, motivation, and the building of team traditions (Siedentop, … Read More
oogle Forms is a flexible tool for the quieter structural pieces that support the whole design. At the start of a season, Forms can be used to gather student interests, prior knowledge, and scheduling constraints in order to form balanced … Read More
Motivation as a design problem In this project, motivation is not something that lives only inside the student. It shows up in how the subject is organised, how tasks are framed, and what kinds of experiences students have in class. … Read More
When Sport Education is treated as a set of organisational principles rather than a sport specific method, its usefulness for social studies becomes much easier to see. Affiliation, seasons, schedules, records, culminating events, and roles are all structural decisions. They … Read More
Sport Education is essentially a set of organizational moves that turn PE from a string of isolated lessons into something that feels connected and done for a purpose. Siedentop (2002) describes how this model rests on features such as persisting … Read More
Børhaug, K., & Borgund, S. (2018). Student motivation for social studies: Existential exploration or critical engagement. Journal of Social Science Education, 17(4), 102–115. Fernández III, R. (2011). Self-determination theory and student motivation in social studies in an urban Broward County … Read More
