Through Teaching Games for Understanding: Theory, Research, and Practice, you can - gain a comprehensive perspective of the teaching games for understanding (TGfU) model, seeing it in context of its influences and evolution; - tap into the latest research and findings in the model, learning from worldwide experts in each of the topics covered; - consider how students learn best, what should be taught, and why it should be taught using the TGfU model; and - learn how to apply the TGfU approach at all educational levels.
Teaching games for understanding (TGfU) is a dynamic approach to sport education that has gained worldwide popularity over the past 25 years. Now, through Teaching Games for Understanding: Theory, Research, and Practice, readers can discover the latest refinements and up-to-date research from the world's highest-regarded experts on the topic. 
This book presents a comprehensive look at the TGfU model and provides multiple perspectives from 17 contributors in 6 countries. As such, it is a valuable resource for preservice and in-service teachers, teacher educators, and coaches around the world. It details the history, theory, research, and practice of the approach (also known as the tactical games model and the games sense model) and enables readers to better understand and apply TGfU.
Teaching Games for Understanding includes the following features: - Opening scenarios or quotes to make the material relevant and draw the reader in - Discussion questions for each chapter to facilitate understanding and provide teachers with a ready-made starting point for review of the material - Chapter-ending summaries that present an overview of the material to help students test their understanding and recall the contents
Never before has a book presented such an all-encompassing analysis of the TGfU model. Every angle is covered. The book explores why and how to involve students in the construction of games, how to use the model in curriculums at the elementary and secondary levels and in teacher education programs, and how assessment factors in. It examines how to integrate the model with sport education, covers the social interactions and decision-making processes involved in the model, and details the implications of model-based instruction for research on teaching. It also presents real-life stories of teachers successfully implementing this approach. Finally, it takes a look at the future direction for TGfU, considering its continuing evolution.
Highly readable and widely applicable, Teaching Games for Understanding: Theory, Research, and Practice is a vital text in the field of sport education, affording readers a solid foundation for understanding and using TGfU.

Teaching Games for Understanding: Theory, Research, and Practice

Griffin, Linda L.

Butler, Joy I.

Sports & Outdoors

Human Kinetics

Games, in the right environment and with the right guidance from teachers, offer students opportunities to grow as independent problem solvers, decision makers, and team players. In addition, students can learn a host of other skills, strategies, and concepts that can transfer not only to other games but also to other life situations. 
Playing Fair shows teachers how to create the learning environments typical of the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach. This text takes the TGfU approach to a new level, incorporating the development of group processes and democratic behaviors that promote personal growth as well as the ability to thrive in group situations. 
 Antisocial behavior and bullying are ongoing problems in schools today. The concepts and practical ideas for lessons offered in Playing Fair address those problems proactively as students learn about conflict resolution, inclusion, democratic decision making, leadership, and bullying. The topics in this book come together in developing the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains, all primary goals of the physical education curriculum. 
A Peek Inside Playing Fair
Playing Fair offers teachers these benefits: 
 • Practical classroom stories showing teachers how they can apply theory and learning situations to their own students and school context 
 • Activities that include modifications so teachers can apply the games with students of all developmental levels 
 • Learning checks consisting of questions for teachers to ask their students in order to assess their learning 
 • Key Concepts, a special element that calls out important concepts for readers 
 The first part of the book covers the process of inventing games and the democratic principles involved, how social justice can be taught and learned through games, understanding the TGfU classification system, curriculum design, and pedagogical principles. The remaining 10 chapters show how to implement the concepts presented in the earlier chapters. Readers learn how to invent and play a variety of games: target games, striking games, net/wall games, and invasion games. 
What Your Students Will Gain
 Implementing the principles advocated in this book will help learners in these ways: 
 • Better understand and appreciate the constructs of game play through external and internalized schemas 
 • Transfer concepts, strategies, tactics, and skills within and among game categories 
 • Improve their performance and become more engaged in their own learning 
 • Become more self-effective and empowered as they understand and value the processes of decision making 
 • Understand how democracy works from the bottom up 
 • Grasp that democracy is tenuous, that it breaks down in the absence of active social justice, and that we all have a role and responsibility in constructing and reconstructing it, moment by moment 
Playing Fairwill help students gain a better understanding of themselves and others, and it will make them sensitive to issues such as social justice, collaboration, negotiation, inclusiveness, and fairneess. Students will learn to make informed decisions in the context of their invented games and to make intentional, reasoned inquiries about game situations, which they can then transfer to other areas of their lives. 
Bringing Systemic Change and Facilitating Personal Growth
 This book will help teachers and coaches teach the principles of game play and those of democracy and citizenship in concrete ways. They will contribute to systemic change in the school culture—a culture in which students learn to create their own games and gamelike situations wherein concepts, skills, and strategies can be learned in context through a process called democracy in action. 
 The bottom line is simple. Playing Fair brings out inherent qualities that have been part of games since the beginning of humankind: play, fun, challenge, inventiveness, teamwork, friendship, and quick thinking. Along the way, games offer opportunities for moral and spiritual development—and the games in Playing Fair offer all that and more.

Playing Fair

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