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What is Game Sense?
What is
Game Sense is an innovative approach to teaching PDHPE. It is a student centered,
inquiry-based approach that allows students to develop their fundamental movement
skills through active participation of games. Game
Sense?
Traditionally, PDHPE is taught by teaching students the fundamental movement
skills and then these skills are put into practice through games or
participating in sports. Game Sense teachers students fundamental movement
skills by teaching students the game/sport first.
What is Game Sense?
Students participate in modified games that build on fundamental
movement skills that they can transfer to the specific sport.
What is
According the NSW Board of Studies PDHPE Syllabus (2007) students should be
using the skills of problem solving, interacting, moving, decision making and communicating
Game
throughout their PDPHE experiences. The Game Sense approach allows students to use
these skills to aid in their student – centred learning. Having these skills are not only important
Sense?
in Game Sense but are important in everyday life situations.
Game Sense also provides students with the ability to contribute to their learning and making
decisions on their own, to benefit not only their own experiences of games but those
around them.
Links to the Syllabus
Communication COS1.1
Communicates appropriately in a variety of ways.
Bunker, D., & Thorpe, R. (1982). A model for the teaching of games in the
secondary school. Bulletin of Physical Education, 10, p. 9-16.
Light, R., Ebooks Corporation, & MyiLibrary. (2013). Game sense pedagogy
for performance, participation and enjoyment (Routledge studies in
physical education and youth sport). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon;
New York: Routledge.