3. Game sense is an approach to learning where
a game styled learning experience is usually
encouraged through coaching and PE
education. It is a learning experience which
develops various skills and allows the student
to slowly develop bigger skills by learning the
smaller and basic ones first.
(Pill, 2013, Page 124)
4. Develops skills
Improves participation
Improves enjoyment level
Encourages students to try things they
wouldn’t usually try
Self development
Team building exercises
It allows better teaching to the
syllabus content.
5. Game sense develops students skills whether it be in
decision making, moving, communicating, interacting,
and problem solving. Developing these areas encourage
students to get out and try new things as they develop
the basic skills of different sporting activities.
It improves participation and enjoyment level as
students learn the basic and improve in skill level
before just being thrown into a game situation without
warning.
It encourages students to try new things and not be
stuck on the same thing all the time. This encourages
motivation levels and gets students to be more creative
and imaginative.
6. It develops self development. It develops self confidence
and allows students to find out what they are passionate in
and what they need improvement in.
It develops team building skills. It allows students to work
with one another and work with people who they would
not usually associate themselves with. It allows students to
develop team building skills and its something they take
on with them in later years of their lives in high school and
in their working years.
It also allows better teach methods for teachers as it
allows them to teach different skills in different aspects of
the syllabus such as active lifestyle and how decision
making and moving are skills which can be developed
from this but can also be used in personal health choices.
7. Light, R. (2012). Game Sense Pedagogy for
Performance, Participation and Enjoyment.
Taylor and Franis. ISBN: 9781136291708
Pill, S. (2013). Play with purpose: game sense
to sport literacy. Hindmarsh, South
Australia.