DEMONSTRATION OF TEACHING GAMES FOR UNDERSTANDING

IN NET-WALL GAMESSUFFOLK ZONE APHERD 2014

SUFFOLK ZONE, NY NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Dr. Stephen HarveyWest Virginia University, WV, USA

WHAT IS THE BIG IDEA?

Development of Deep Understanding

That can be transferred to other games

Content is Focused on Tactical Problems—Then Technique!

Tactical Problems

• Placement• Consistency• Positioning

• 4 R’s: Read, React, Respond, Recover (Hopper, 2003)

Questioning as Teaching

• What do you? (TACTICAL AWARENESS)

• How do you? (SKILL & MOVEMENT)

• When is the best time to? (TIME)

• Where is / can? (SPACE)

• Which choice? (RISK/SAFETY)

The Keep Up Game (see Hopper, 2003)

• Play 1 x 1 in one badminton service box• Ball has to stay in the air• Ball has to be tossed above head height per

possession• If ball lands on floor in quadrant or out of

quadrant = point is over and awarded to respective player

AssessmentAssessm

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References Griffin, L., Mitchell, and Oslin. (2003). Sport foundations for elementary physical education. Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL.

Slade, D. (2010). Transforming play: Teachingtactics and game sense. Human Kinetics,Champaign, IL.