It is very popular in school systems today to separate students by skill level allowing the students that struggle to fall behind and limits their social interaction with other students. Activity based education breaks down these barriers and engages all students to work together enhancing the social, emotional and most importantly the educational experience for all. This enhanced social environment helps students feel more connected to one another and the material that they have learned in class. The idea of creating connectedness in schools is an idea that has been growing for many years now and activity based education is a great tool to use to enhance student-to-student connectedness. In addition to student connectedness, students are able to further their learning by receiving help from other students who think like they do or giving help to other students who think just like they do. Students that are able to not only grasp the information but also are able to help teach the information as well show that they have fully grasped the information to the point that they can teach …show more content…
Not only this but, this style of teaching also makes it very easy to use the three domains, cognitive, affective and psychomotor, of blooms taxonomy which have been proven to help students retain and understand skills and knowledge that has been taught in class. This is why activity based education is perfect for the physical education classroom because it has a focus on doing, the main goal of a physical education class after all is to focus on being active and less about discussion. Here it can be seen why activity based education is a great teaching style for the modern physical education