Teaching Games for Understanding Chapter 10 Teaching Games

Teaching Games for Understanding Chapter 10

Teaching Games for Understanding • Origins with Bunker and Thorpe model – Six stages • Current TGFU model – Game play sets problem – Skill practice solves problem – Closing game extends solutions

Benefits • • • Increased time in game play Motivational and enjoyable Strong link between skills and games Students value skill practice Application and performance of skills Tactical components

Transfer of Tactics • Common problems to solve • Transfer of tactical solutions and concepts within and across the game categories – Invasion games – Net/wall games – Striking/fielding games – Target games

Tactical Games Model • Tactical frameworks • Scope – On-the-ball skills – Off-the-ball movements • Sequence – Game complexity • Complexity increases as game grows

Emphasis of Standards within Teaching Games for Understanding 1. Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities. Major 2. Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities. Major 3. Participates regularly in physical activity. Minor 4. Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. Minor 5. Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings. Major 6. Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction. Minor Reference: Moving into the Future: National Standards for Physical Education, 2 nd ed. (2004), p. 11

Sample Unit and Lessons • • Tactical problem = Lesson focus Goal of game drives lesson objectives Questions shape solutions Units structured by – Individual game – Thematically by game category

Questions Help teachers • Link lesson goal to game play • Shape skill practice • Assess during closure

Assessment of Student Learning • Integral, ongoing, and embedded • Records process and/or outcome • GPAI: Game Performance Assessment Instrument – Enables holistic assessment of • • On-ball skills Off-ball movements Support play Decision making