Teaching Games for Understanding; net and wall games

1. DEMONSTRATION OF TEACHING
GAMES FOR UNDERSTANDING IN
NET-WALL GAMES
SUFFOLK ZONE APHERD 2014
SUFFOLK ZONE, NY
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Dr. Stephen Harvey
West Virginia University, WV, USA

2. WHAT IS THE BIG IDEA?
Development of Deep Understanding
That can be transferred to other games

3. Content is Focused on Tactical
Problems—Then Technique!

4. Tactical Problems
• Placement
• Consistency
• Positioning
• 4 R’s: Read, React, Respond, Recover (Hopper, 2003)

5. 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)

6. 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

10. Assessment
Assessment

11. References
Griffin, L., Mitchell, and Oslin. (2003). Sport
foundations for elementary physical education.
Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL.
Slade, D. (2010). Transforming play: Teaching
tactics and game sense. Human Kinetics,
Champaign, IL.