Why Game Sense Is Good For Your Children

2.  Curry & Light, 2006:
 Game Sense is a student-centered,
inquiry-based approach to PE
 Allows students to develop their own skills
and understanding while being actively
involved in the game

3.  Focuses on game, not discrete skills or
techniques
 Learning occurs within modified-games
or game-like activities to develop
understanding, decision-making and
skills
 Skill development occurs at same time
as understanding, reduces technical
demand, increases game concentration

4.  Integrates physical, intellectual and
social learning
 Caters for different age, size, ability,
inclination and motivation
 “offer opportunities to intellectualize
games teaching in physical education”
Light & Fawns, 2001

5.  From a teacher perspective, student participation is
key
 Lack of participation can lead to lack of enjoyment,
which may cause a negative view of physical activity
 This negative view can lead to decreased socialising
chances as well as higher risk of obesity and
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
 According to the NSW PDHPE Syllabus, the skills
apparent in each strand are moving, problem-
solving, communicating, interacting and decision-
making
 The attainment and refinement of these skills can
have a positive impact on their ability to participate
in a game

6.  Game Sense is the best way forward in
teaching PDHPE
 Increase in participation because it
caters for all students
 Focuses on playing the game, not
technique or skills
 Highly enjoyable= Positive influence of
exercise in the future

7.  Curry, C., & Light, R. (2006). Addressing
the NSW quality teaching framework in
physical education: Is Game Sense the
answer. In Asia Pacific Conference on
Teaching Sport and Physical Education
for Understanding (pp. 7-19).
 Light, R. & Fawns, R. (2001). The thinking
body: constructivist approaches to
games teaching in physical education.
Melbourne Studies in Education. 42(2),69-
87.