Skill Theme Model

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Skill Theme Model
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• Teachers employing the Skill Theme approach focus
  on helping children become skillful movers so
  that they can successfully participate in
  physical activities.
• The primary goal is to develop competency in
  basic motor skills and confidence to try and
  enjoy a variety of sports and physical activities
  

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Movement Analysis Framework

• Focus
• Skill acquisition
• Movement control principles
• Major components
• Space awareness
• Effort
• Relationships

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Movement Analysis Framework The Wheel
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• The Wheel shows how the Skill Themes and
  Movement Concepts can work together and are
  interrelated
• Early elementary focus should be on addressing
  movement concepts while practicing skill themes
• Later elementary years focus should be on the
  learning and quality of the skill themes
  themselves

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Movement Concepts in Physical Education

• Space Awareness (where the body moves)
  Location Directions Levels Pathways
  Extensions
• Effort (how the body moves)  Time Force
  Flow
• Relationships (with whom, or what the body
  moves)  Of body parts With objects and/or
  people With people

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Skill Themes in Physical Education

• Locomotor Skills
• Walking Running
• Hopping Skipping
• Galloping Sliding
• Chasing, fleeing,
• and dodging
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• Nonmanipulative Skills
• Turning Twisting
• Rolling Balancing
• Transferring weight Jumping and landing
• Stretching Curling
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• Manipulative Skills
• Throwing Catching and collecting
• Kicking Punting
• Dribbling Volleying
• Striking with rackets Striking with
  long-handed implements
• and paddles

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Themes Concepts

• Skills are action verbs
• Concept are adverbs
• Where
• How
• Alone or with others
• With or without equipment

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Teaching by Skill Themes

• Developmental levels
• precontrol, control,utilization,proficiency
• Teach with movement concepts or skill themes
• Combine skills and concepts
• Transition to application in small-sided tasks,
  use challenges to maintain motivation, use cues
  to refine movement

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Progression Spiral

• PUNTING
• Proficiency Level
• Playing Punt Over
• Punting while traveling
• Receiving and punting against opponents
• Utilization Level
• Playing rush the circle
• Punting within a limited time
• Receiving a pass, then punting
• Punting to a partner
• Punting at angles
• Control Level
• Punting for height
• Punting for accuracy
• Using punting zones
• Punting for distance

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• Progression Spiral graphically represents
• How content progresses from easiest to hardest,
  less to more complex
• Progression from pre-control to proficiency level
• How people may vary in their level of performance
  on a specific skill theme according to the
  context of the task.

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Alternative Assessment Options for Skill Theme
Model

• Teacher observation
• Exit (or entrance) slips
• Student journals
• Homework
• Peer observation
• Self-assessment
• Event tasks
• Videotaping
• Student drawings
• Student displays
• Portfolios

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Emphasis of Standards within Skill Theme Approach
Reference  Moving into the Future National
Standards for Physical Education, 2nd ed. (2004),
p. 11
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Planning the Theme

• Select skill
• Task analysis
• Brainstorm ideas
• Progression
• Essential to skill acquisition
• Planning for teaching
• Exit goals

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Big Picture

• Yearly curriculum plan
• Establishes skills for the year
• Guides planning questions
• Identify standards to address
• Individual skill theme plan