Teaching Games For Understanding Tgfu A Model For Pre Service Teachers
A model for pre service teachers.
Teaching games for understanding tgfu a model for pre service teachers. Wayne smith and teaching games for understanding. Teaching games for understanding tgfu. Teaching games for understanding tgfu has been present in the australian sporting community for the last ten years and more recently as the focus of physical education lessons in some australian schools curriculum especially in nsw. However the effectiveness of.
Game sense encourages players to understand and appreciate the game it enables them to make informed decisions take ownership of their learning and exercise choice and control over how they play the game. Purpose of this study was to 1 examine pre service teachers pts perceptions teaching a. Teaching games for understanding a model for pre service teachers. This teaching model was created by rod thorpe and david bunker from loughborough university.
The tgfu model tries to situate the student in a sport setting where the tactics principles of the game and decision making and problem solving situations are relevant. Teaching games for understanding tgfu has been present in the australian sporting community for the last ten years and more recently as the focus of physical education lessons in some australian schools curriculum especially in nsw. The abbreviation for teaching games for understanding model is tgfu. Teaching games for understanding tgfu has been present in the australian sporting community for the last ten years and more recently as the focus of physical education lessons in some australian schools curriculum especially in nsw.
School of teaching learning and curriculum studies kent state university kent ohio teaching games for understanding tgfu. Over the past few decades pe studies have begun reflecting the limitations of traditional technique based teaching approaches these limitations include the insufficient consideration of the contextual nature of games an emphasis on performance which limits the students success the implementation of inflexible. Teaching games for understanding model is the topic that i researched. The basic premise is that if teachers can improve pupil s understanding of game play then performance.
This model was made for students to help educate them about the games they play in physical education. Bunker thorpe 1982 was developed in the uk as an alternative to skills based games teaching. However the effectiveness of tgfu as a teaching method is limited by the skill of its practitioners in developing the appropriate games and questions to.