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Presents a comprehensive guide for teachers and coaches that details the history, theory, research, and practice of the Teaching Games for Understanding model, and how to incorporate it in both elementary and secondary curriculum.
This new book brings together leading and innovative thinkers in the field of teaching and sport coaching pedagogy to provide a range of perspectives on teaching games and sport for understanding. Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding engages undergraduate and postgraduate students in physical education and sport coaching, practicing teachers, practicing sport coaches, teacher educators and coach developers. The contributions, taken together or individually, provide insight, learning and opportunities to foster game-based teaching and coaching ideas, and provide conceptual and methodological clarity where a sense of pedagogical confusion may exist. Each chapter raises issues that can resonate with the teacher and sport practitioner and researcher. In this way, the chapters can assist one to make sense of their own teaching or sport coaching, provide deeper insight into personal conceptualisations of the concept of game-based teaching and sport coaching or stimulate reflections on their own teaching or coaching or the contexts they are involved in. Teaching games and sport for understanding in various guises and pedagogical models has been proposed as leading practice for session design and instructional delivery of sport teaching in PE and sport coaching since the late 1960s. At its core, it is a paradigm shift from what can be described as a behaviourist model of highly directive instruction for player replication of teacher/coach explanation and demonstration to instructional models that broadly are aimed at the development of players self-autonomy as self-regulated learners –‘thinking players’. This innovative new volume both summarises current thinking, debates and practical considerations about the broad spectrumof what teaching games for understanding means as well as providing direction for further practical, pragmatic and research consideration of the concept and its precepts and, as such, is key reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of physical education and sport coaching as well as practicing teachers and sport coaches.
This new book brings together leading and innovative thinkers in the field of teaching and sport coaching pedagogy to provide a range of perspectives on teaching games and sport for understanding. Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding engages undergraduate and postgraduate students in physical education and sport coaching, practicing teachers, practicing sport coaches, teacher educators and coach developers. The contributions, taken together or individually, provide insight, learning and opportunities to foster game-based teaching and coaching ideas, and provide conceptual and methodological clarity where a sense of pedagogical confusion may exist. Each chapter raises issues that can resonate with the teacher and sport practitioner and researcher. In this way, the chapters can assist one to make sense of their own teaching or sport coaching, provide deeper insight into personal conceptualisations of the concept of game-based teaching and sport coaching or stimulate reflections on their own teaching or coaching or the contexts they are involved in. Teaching games and sport for understanding in various guises and pedagogical models has been proposed as leading practice for session design and instructional delivery of sport teaching in PE and sport coaching since the late 1960s. At its core, it is a paradigm shift from what can be described as a behaviourist model of highly directive instruction for player replication of teacher/coach explanation and demonstration to instructional models that broadly are aimed at the development of players self-autonomy as self-regulated learners -thinking players'. This innovative new volume both summarises current thinking, debates and practical considerations about the broad spectrumof what teaching games for understanding means as well as providing direction for further practical, pragmatic and research consideration of the concept and its precepts and, as such, is key reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of physical education and sport coaching as well as practicing teachers and sport coaches.
An introduction to teaching games for understanding / Linda Griffin [and others] -- Problem-based learning to enhance tactical awareness in target games / James Mandigo -- Teaching and assessing striking/fielding games / Connie Collier and Judy Oslin -- The progressive games approach to teaching expertise in volleyball / Theresa Maxwell -- Teaching invasion games for understanding : games sense in field hockey / Louisa Webb -- Preservice teachers' responses to TGfU in an Australian university : "no room for heroes" / Richard Light -- A constructivist approach to a major's club : helping P.E.T.E students transition to professionals / Barbara McCahan [and others] -- Physical education teachers' conceptions about teaching TGfU in Portuguese schools / Isabel Mesquita and Amandio Graca -- Comparing assessment of preservice teaching practices using traditional and TGfU instructional models : data from Australia and the United States / Eileen Sullivan and Karen Swabey -- Teaching games for understanding : a paradigm shift for undergraduate students / Michele Sweeney, Amy Everitt and James Carifio -- Teaching tactical concepts with preservice teachers / Kath Howarth and Jeff Walkuski -- The construction of student tactical knowledge in badminton / Nathalie Mahut [and others] -- Authentic assessment in games education : an introduction to team sport assessment procedure and the game performance assessment instrument / Jean-François Richard and Linda Griffin -- Linking games for understanding with dynamical systems of skill acquisition : old milk in new bottles or have we really got a new research agenda in physical education and sport? / Tony Rossi -- Beyond technical vs. tactical : extending the games-teaching debate / William Strean and Enrique Garcia Bengoechea -- Teaching and coaching using a 'play practice' approach / Wendy Piltz -- Teaching team sports and games : extending the debate to the youth sport domain / Enrique Garcia Bengoechea and William Strean -- Reflections and projections / Joy Butler [and others].
This updated edition includes chapters on lacrosse, rugby, cricket and bowling, as well as a brief overview, practical lessons and student centred teaching on a variety of other sports.
This edition of Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach adds four new chapters and has over 350 lesson plans to help teachers--from elementary through secondary school--learn the tactics and skills of various sports. Video clips delivered on HKPropel show some lessons in action.
The teaching of games is a central component of any physical education or youth sport programme. Contemporary Developments in Games Teaching brings together leading international researchers and practitioners in physical education and sports coaching to examine new approaches in games teaching and team sport coaching that are player/student-centred and inquiry-based. The book aims to bridge the gap between research and practice by exploring contemporary games teaching from pedagogical, policy and research perspectives. It offers interesting new commentary and research data on well-established models such as Teaching Games for Understanding (TFfU), Game Sense, Play Practice and the Games Concept Approach (GCA), as well as introducing innovative and exciting approaches emerging in East Asia, including Singapore and Japan. Representing the most up-to-date survey of new work in contemporary games teaching around the world, this book is invaluable reading for any student, researcher, in-service teacher or sports coach with an interest in games teaching or physical education.
Sport coaching has grown significantly as an area of research interest with an expanding number of sport coaching programs offered. The past decade or so has also seen significant interest in games-based approaches to coaching and teaching games. On a global level, Game Sense is one of the most recognized athlete-centred approaches for team sports, probably close behind Teaching Games for Understanding. Game Sense for Coaching and Teaching provides an understanding of how an Australian approach to coaching has grown and developed as it has been taken up across the globe. While the focus is on Game Sense, the book also offers insights into how any coaching or physical education (PE) teaching approach changes as it is adapted to different contexts across the world, examining the theoretical, historical and philosophical foundations of sport coaching and teaching in schools. This book is particularly useful for undergraduate and post-graduate sport coaching and PE courses but is also likely to be of interest for all practicing sports coaches or physical education teachers and lecturers.
Written as a resource for both pre-service and in-service educators, this theory-to-practice book focuses on the foundations and applications of constructivism applied to the teaching and learning of invasion sports and games.
