Strategies for the Gradual Instructional Mediation of Learner-Oriented Interactions

Abstract

This chapter offers a practical tool for the progressive teaching and learning of sport and games from a learner-oriented perspective. A set of specific scaffolding strategies are organised into a structure that facilitates sport learners’ progressive active participation and ownership of their learning experience. The scaffolding strategies are presented sequentially and hierarchically in reference to the increasing levels of decision-making and responsibility transferred to sport learners related to key sport-based instructional interactions (content selection and identification of learning needs, task design and presentation, instructional interactions, monitoring of learners’ responses).