11.1 - Pedagogy for Skill Acquisition

• Pedagogy


  The method and practice of teaching, especiallly as an academic subject or theoretical concept
• Sports Pedagogy


  teaching an instruction in sport, physical education and related areas of physical activity
• Skill


  the ability to choose and perform the right techniques at the right time, successfully regularly and with a minimum effort
• Traditional Pedagogy


  The simple transmission of fixed knowledge from coach to athlete
• Non-linear Pedagogy


  occurs in a non-linear, unpredictable manner with coach and athletes exploring a situation/problem/issue together
• Motor skills


  motions carries out when the brain, nervout system and muscles work together
• Constraints


  factors that limit, contain or help shape the development of movement
• Newells’s Contraints Led Approach


  a more ‘hands-off’ approach to teaching and learning

  
• Athlete Constraints


  Explanation: self organisation, movement patterns, cognition, decision making

  Example: learners struggling with the rules of rugby

  • allow passes in all directions
  • passing through multiple hands before scoring
• Task Constraints


  Explanation: the gail of the specific task, rules on actions or condition on tasks, rules on the equipment used

  Example: girls not as strong as boys

  • girls throw lighter shot puts
  • 10 consecutive passes
• Environmental Constraints


  Explanation:

  Physical factors —> light, noise, space, court surface and net height or line on the area of play

  Social factors—> peer pressure, social and cultural expectation

  Example: players are crowding the football

  • play smaller sided games (3v3) or games with wingers who must stay waide
  • provide zones —> netball