Teaching Game for Understanding

Assignment #1 Analytical Paper: Effective Instruction of Team Sport.
"There is more than one way to teach games, and it may not be necessary to separate skill development from game play" (Bunker, Thorpe, 1982). The five of the six readings are based on teaching tactics and strategies before skill development. Although the authors of the articles each have their own specific views on how games should be taught; they are all in the best interests of the students/athletes. Rod Thorpe and David Bunker developed the "Teaching Games for Understanding" model. …