Game sense is an approach to physical education that uses games and sports to help students develop important skills like communication, problem-solving, and decision-making. It focuses on student-centered learning and allows students to enhance their fundamental movement skills. Some benefits of the game sense approach include developing students' cooperation, participation, and social skills through teamwork activities. The document provides examples of invasion games used in game sense and discusses how categorizing different sports helps students learn skills applicable to multiple activities.
Game sense is an approach to physical education that uses games and sports to help students develop important skills like communication, problem-solving, and decision-making. It focuses on student-centered learning and allows students to enhance their fundamental movement skills. Some benefits of the game sense approach include developing students' cooperation, participation, and social skills through teamwork activities. The document provides examples of invasion games used in game sense and discusses how categorizing different sports helps students learn skills applicable to multiple activities.
Game sense is an approach to physical education that uses games and sports to help students develop important skills like communication, problem-solving, and decision-making. It focuses on student-centered learning and allows students to enhance their fundamental movement skills. Some benefits of the game sense approach include developing students' cooperation, participation, and social skills through teamwork activities. The document provides examples of invasion games used in game sense and discusses how categorizing different sports helps students learn skills applicable to multiple activities.
Game sense is an approach to physical education that uses games and sports to help students develop important skills like communication, problem-solving, and decision-making. It focuses on student-centered learning and allows students to enhance their fundamental movement skills. Some benefits of the game sense approach include developing students' cooperation, participation, and social skills through teamwork activities. The document provides examples of invasion games used in game sense and discusses how categorizing different sports helps students learn skills applicable to multiple activities.
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Game Sense Approach for
5A ADILAH ALI + What is Game Sense? Game sense helps students understand and practice the useful and essential skills, through the form of a game.(Pill, 2017)
Game sense directs students to incorporate
communication skills as they must solve problems, make decisions and look for strategies (Curry, 2011)
The game sense approach will enhance their physical
education learning, through small games, which help mimic actual games to help them be ready and have all the skills for complex games. (Light, 2013) + Game sense It is an enjoyable method Communicating-COS3.3: Communicates confidently in a that will be loved by variety of situations. students, as it is student- centered which caters for all Decision Making-DMS3.2: Makes students of any age. informed decisions and accepts responsibility for consequence. It involves communication Interacting-INS3.3: Acts in ways that and problem-solving skills, enhance the contribution of self and which can make students be others in a range of cooperative situations. efficient in thinking quicker and creating solutions. Problem Solving-PSS3.5: Suggests, considers and selects appropriate It allows students to socialise alternative when resolving problems with other people, making Games and Sports-GSS3.8: Applies them useful to teamwork movement skills in games and sports that require communication, Students will be able to take cooperation, decision making and observation of rules. responsibility of their own physical education (NESA, 2007) + Game sense categories
Categorising helps students experiences different types of
sports that require similar skills. It can vary from simple to difficult, to help students be used to such skills so they are familiar with it.
Furthermore, they are able to adapt these skills in different
games to help them have an even better experience in the chosen game.
1. Invasion- Soccer, rugby, netball
2. Striking- Cricket, t-ball, tennis
3. Target- archery, golf, Oz tag
4. Net and ball- Beach volleyball, squash
+ Example - Invasion game This game is about how students can multitask many movements within the same time. The invasion game involves students to score their own goals, while making sure they safeguard their own respective goal.
Students will need to be in 2 different teams and must effectively
work on communicating to ensure each team member understands the rules and format so they are able to win
The game builds on social skills, as students will need to think of a
strategy with their team members to help them win. This will enhance communication skills.
Modifications can be given to this game as the ball can be swapped
with different types of soft balls to increase variation in the game.
The game can emerge into a different sport like rugby to help increase the use movement skills such as defending, receiving, running, dodging and passing. + Advantages of Game sense
Game sense incorporates student-centered learning, it
also considers the academic ability of different students.
Students will be emerged into independent learners, as
they will become more mindful of their own learning methods and guides
Game sense will help students enhance their
communication and social skills by actively participating in teamwork and socialising with other students, to help effective decisions to resolve conflicts
It strongly enhances the essential importance of
fundamental movement skills and increases the overall participation and approach of students in sports. + Fundamental Movement skills
The 12 fundamental movement skills are the basis of
movement. It should be taught from childhood, to help children build on motor skills.
When a child is not introduced to such basic skills, they will
struggle on harder movements as they age. Hence, it is important to teach children the important movements.
It largely plays a big role in ensuring children reach adequate
physical development.
Static Balance, Vertical jump, Sprint run, Catch, Hop, Leap, Side gallop, Kick, Skip, Two hand strike, Overarm throw, Dodge. (Lecture 1) + Rational Game sense will strongly be main focus when introducing it to my activities, as it will enhance student’s cooperation and participations. I will be introducing game sense into all my activities, to ensure that students work on their weaknesses and constantly build on their skills, which will enable them to be more familiar with games tactics.
Game sense generates social skills as the reinforcement of group
work, will enhance student’s communication skills and enable effective teamwork. They will be independent, hence why they will be compelled to take their own learning decision’s themselves. The build of academic skills will help students to grow into taking their education in their hands, conveying the student-centered approach, hence it allows students to be responsible of their own learning and education making them self-governing individuals.
Inquiry based learning will be the core of my lessons, as it is
beneficial for students to reflect on why they make certain decisions. The use of evaluation and reflection will strongly help me as a teacher to know where my students are going wrong or where they need help.
