The document discusses Game Sense, a modern approach to teaching physical education. Game Sense focuses on modifying games to give students opportunities to learn strategies, develop skills, and understand different sports. It allows students to play with purpose by focusing on key concepts and skills. Game Sense is student-centered and promotes thinking on their feet. It creates an inclusive environment where all skill levels are engaged. The approach encourages communication, problem-solving and having fun while learning.

1. G A M E S E N S E : A
M O D E R N
A P P R O A C H T O
T E A C H I N G
P D H P E !
T H E N E X T F E W S L I D E S W I L L E X P L A I N :
• W H A T I S G A M E S E N S E ?
• W H Y C H O O S E G A M E S E N S E ?

2. WHAT IS GAME SENSE?
Game sense approach is a way of learning sports and games in our HPE
classes. It provides students with a variety of skill sets for students, now
and in the future, when this approach is implemented in HPE – more
room for learning through play! This gives students the opportunity to
engage in a wide range of learning opportunities, where they can take on
new strategies, develop new skills and become confident in sports,
according to their skills and interest (Wright & Forrest, 2007).

3. WHAT IS GAME SENSE?
The game sense approach is
teaching and learning about
games and sports. It is an
approach whereby games are
modified to give students the
opportunity to learn and
engage in strategies to develop
skills and and understanding of
the game. It is a technique
used to break down the the
game into different parts in
order to understand and refined
through practice before put into
play.

4. WHAT IS GAME SENSE?
The strategies used in game sense approach
allows for students to play with purpose.
Game Sense approach is the purposeful
selection of skills used to shape a game in
order to focus the play on the concepts and
movement skills to be learnt through the
common principles of play i.e. basket ball
and net ball are invasion games, students will
learn the concept of invasion and defense,
which makes sense through the common
principle of play (Mitchell, Oslin & Griffin,
2013).

5. WHY CHOOSE GAME SENSE?
Game Sense creates sociocultural contexts where students draw on their
funds of knowledge and make meaning of their body education (Wright &
Forrest, 2007).
Game sense approaches are games promotes the development of
thinking players, as is is a player-centered game with high-activity levels,
that are disguised within fun and challenging activities. The flexibility of
game sense approach allows for modification to ensure there is inclusion,
challenge and skill development within that session/game.

6. WHY CHOOSE GAME SENSE?
Teaching through the Game Sense approach recognises skill as
information-in-action, encouraging student participation to develop new
skills (Forrest, Webb & Pearson, 2007).
Game Sense is the purposeful design of games as learning contexts,
whereby sessions are designed to focus on developing skills, modified for
individuals through class engagement, physically and cognitively.

7. WHY CHOOSE
GAME SENSE?
Game Sense opens doors
for questions, thinking,
communication, player-
centered approaches,
inclusive of different skill
levels and best of all – fun!
Questioning evokes high
order thinking and problem
solving skills allowing
students to become
connected to the modified
game. i.e. “What can we do
to make this game
better/faster?” “What skills
did we learn when playing
basketball?”

8. References
Forrest, G. J., Webb, P., & Pearson, P. (2007). Games for understanding in pre service teacher education:
a'game for outcome'approach for enhanced understanding of games.
Mitchell, S. A., Oslin, J. L., & Griffin, L. L. (2013). Teaching sport concepts and skills: A tactical games
approach for ages 7 to 18. Human Kinetics.
Wright, J., & Forrest, G. (2007). A social semiotic analysis of knowledge construction and games centred
approaches to teaching. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 12(3), 273-287.