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Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance

 Issue: September 2007

Incorporating PACER into an Inclusive Basketball Unit
 Carlos M. Cervantes, Rona Cohen, Bethany L. Hersman, & Tim Barrett

Abstract:
 Cooperative learning is an instructional method designed to teach students to work together in small, structured, heterogeneous teams to achieve a common goal. The Performer and Coach Earn Rewards (PACER) system is a new way to incorporate cooperative learning in the gymnasium. It consists of six components that help teachers to introduce new skills or refine and improve learned skills: teams, teacher workshop, practice time with task cards, peer assessment, teacher assessment, and team rewards. The purpose of this article is to introduce PACER as an alternative to the traditional, whole-group methods of teaching physical education and to provide examples of how it can be implemented in a basketball unit and then modified to fit the needs of individuals with visual impairments.

Article category: Inclusion