Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach

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.