Pre-Service Physical Education Teachers’ Implementation of “TGfU Tennis”: Assessing Elementary Students’ Game Play Using the GPAI
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This article reports on a study of upper elementary students’ (years 4–6) learning of three games components (base, decision-making, skill execution) as a result of their participation in a tennis unit taught by pre-service physical education teachers. Utilizing the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model (Bunker & Thorpe, 1982), pre-service physical education teachers taught students (n = 54) from three separate schools. Video-recorded game play of 19 of these upper elementary students before and after tennis instruction was analyzed using the Game Performance Assessment Instrument (GPAI; see Oslin, Mitchell, & Griffin, 1998). Results indicate that mean indices for all three game components increased significantly between the baseline and post-intervention assessment dates. These results suggest that pre-service physical education teachers can utilize TGfU as an instructional model so that a group of novice learners can improve in selected game play components.
Cet article présente une étude sur l’apprentissage de trois composantes du tennis (bases, prises de décisions, application d’habiletés) réalisé dans une séquence d’enseignement basée sur l’approche « Apprendre et comprendre par le jeu » (APJ) (Bunker et Thorpe, 1982) et enseignée par des stagiaires en éducation physique. Les stagiaires ont enseigné ces leçons à des élèves (n=54) de 4e à 6e année de trois écoles. Des enregistrements vidéos illustrant les façons de jouer de 19 de ces élèves avant et après l’apprentissage du tennis ont été analysés à l’aide d’un outil d’évaluation de la performance en jeu, le GPAI (Game Performance Assessment Instrument) (Oslin, Mitchell et Griffin, 1998). Les résultats révèlent que les indices moyens de performance pour les trois composantes du jeu se sont améliorés significativement entre le pré test et post test.. Ces résultats portent à croire que les stagiaires qui donnent des cours d’éducation physique peuvent utiliser ACJ comme modèle d’enseignement pour aider un groupe d’apprenants novices à s’améliorer dans des composantes particulières du tennis.
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