Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach - Softcover

Griffin, Linda L.; Mitchell, Stephen A.; Oslin, Judith L., Ph.D.

9780880114783: Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880114789 ISBN 13: 9780880114783

Publisher: Human Kinetics, 1997

Teaching Sports Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach is the first book to provide a comprehensive, applied, and successfully field-tested plan for using a tactical approach to teach games and sport. This cohesive approach lets students experience the excitement of actual play before they begin practicing specific skills. This approach allows students to first develop an overall sense of the sport, then take a problem-solving approach to mastering skills. Then, when they understand why each skill is important, students can apply the skills effectively during game play.

Teachers and coaches working with students in grades 5 through 12 have found that this approach increases students' motivation, greatly enhances their tactical awareness, and improves their skill development and game performance.

Teaching Sports Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach fully explains the principles of tactical teaching and provides a wealth of practical material for teaching and assessment. Each of the 168 lesson plans includes

� a tactical problem,

� a lesson focus,

� objectives,

� appropriate games,

� problem-solving questions, and

� practice tasks.

You'll also find 118 diagrams to help you visualize lesson organizations, as well as a chapter on assessing game performance and implementing the tactical approach.

While this book specifically addresses soccer, basketball, volleyball, badminton, tennis, softball, and golf, it also gives you the foundation you need to successfully apply a tactical approach to any sport.

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About the Author:

Linda Griffin received her PhD in physical education and teacher education from the Ohio State University. With 20 years of experience as a physical educator and coach, Dr. Griffin has conducted extensive research, published nearly 20 articles and abstracts, and given numerous presentations on the tactical approach. She is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a member of both the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Stephen Mitchell is an assistant professor of sport pedagogy at Kent State University. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Loughborough University, England, where the tactical approach was first developed, and earned a PhD in teaching and curriculum at Syracuse University. He has employed a tactical approach throughout 15 years of teaching and coaching at the middle school, high school, and college levels. Dr. Mitchell is a member of AAHPERD and the Ohio Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (OAHPERD).

Judy Oslin is an associate professor of sport pedagogy at Kent State University. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees from Kent State and earned a PhD in sport pedagogy at the Ohio State University. She has 23 years of experience as a physical educator and has coached high school basketball and volleyball for 11 years. An avid slow-pitch softball player, Dr. Oslin has played in 13 national tournaments. She has used the tactical approach throughout the past six years with middle school, high school, and college students. Dr. Oslin is a member of AAHPERD, OAHPERD, and AERA.

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