Game sense focuses on developing problem-solving and decision-making skills through gameplay rather than just following rules. It encourages students to strategize and contribute ideas to achieve game goals as a team. The game sense approach places students in situations where they must solve problems and make decisions to be successful. Teachers prompt students to discuss strategies rather than directly teaching gameplay, and games are paused for reflection. Game sense allows students to discover approaches through cognitive thinking and testing different tactics.
2. Game sense is the tactics and ideas used during the game
more than just completing the rules of the game by reading
the instructions. The rules cannot be broken but they need
to be implemented through the strategy of the game.
Through game sense skills are developed by each student
contributing their ideas or tactics as to how they believe
would be the most efficient way to achieve the goal of the
game.
(Curriculumsupport,n.d)
3. What game sense encourages
Game sense encourages students to interact and develop
ideas and strategies they need to undertake to fulfil the
instructions of the game.
All students need to be thinking and getting actively
involved both mentally and physically so they can allocate
themselves into the correct positions so they can achieve a
goal as a team.
Each student contributes by interpreting what they think
would be the most effective and efficient by strategically
planning how the aim of the game will be reached.
•
(2002. J. Towns)
4. The focus of game sense
The focus of the game sense approach is to place students
in a situation where problem solving and decision making
are central to successful performance.
Teachers using the game sense approach encourages
students to question and stimulate thinking about the
game rather than directly teaching them how to play the
game. The game is stopped at regular intervals and
students are challenged to reflect on what they have
contributed both mentally and physically in order to allow
the game to proceed.
(Australian Sports Commision)
5. Game sense strenths:
Game sense is a process of discovery. Each student
explores and discovers their own approach in order to
contribute a technique in which they find beneficial. It
isn’t just following a specific guideline that involves a
step by step instruction guide. It is more cognitive
thinking and using all kinds of tactics to reach the
final goal of the game. Each student carefully thinks
and is given the flexibility to test possible skills and
observes different ways and different approaches to
achieving the most effective outcome to get to the goal
of the game.
6. Game sense can be applied in 4
different categories:
Striking and Fielding games. For example. Baseball,
softball or cricket
Invasion games such as soccer, netball or football.
Court and net games such as volleyball or tennis
Target games such as bowling or golf
These are the physical activities that involve the use of
game sense to develop problem solving and specific
strategic methods needed in order to enhance a
broader meaning to the purpose of the game.
(Australian Sports Commission).
8. Reference
J.Towns.(2002). Game sense. Retreived from.
http://www.activehealth.uow.edu.au/gamesense/index.html
Curriculum Support.(n.d). Games Sense approach to practical lessons in PDHPE.
Retreived from
http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/pdhpe/assets/pdf/pa_0
02.pdf
Australian Sports Commision. Retreived From
http://www.ausport.gov.au/sportscoachmag/coaching_processes/teaching_games_for_u
nderstanding
