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Game Sense for Teaching and Coaching

27 August 2024

Check out UC's programme and resources for Game Sense Teaching and Coaching.

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Programme and Resources

 

Conference Proceedings (PDF, 2MB)
 
Monday 16 November
TimeEventMedia
4.00pmSpecial presentation: John McKee (Fiji national rugby coach)
Coaching for decision-making in rugby
Video | John McKee presentation
5.30pmDrinks and nibbles with John McKee in the Shilling Club
Tuesday 17 November
Time                                      Event 1Event 2
8.15amRegistration, tea/coffee 
8.45amWelcome, opening  
9.00am

Keynote speaker: Assoc Prof Stephen Harvey (West Virginia University, US) Enhancing practitioners' observation, analysis and questioning skills in a game-based approach

Video


10.00am

Invited guest speaker: Prof John Evans (University of Sydney, Aust) The roots of Indigenous expertise in informal games as children

Video


10.30amMorning tea
10.50am

Invited guest speaker: Prof Warren Young (Federation University, Aust) Training agility for invasion sports

Video



Parallel Session 1: Game Sense in Coaching
Session Chair: Dr Carl Petersen
Parallel Session 2: Game Sense in Teaching
Session Chair: Professor Richard Light
11.30am

Informing Game Sense pedagogy with constraints led theory for coaching Volleyball - Shane Pill

Shane Pill: Video

Fostering Creativity: The Games Lesson as the Laboratory of the Possible - Richard Light & Amy Light

Richard Light: Video | Richard Light Presentation

11.45amGame Based research in Cricket Sport Science - Carl Petersen

Supporting teachers to implement game based approaches: Investigating the influences on teacher learning when implement GBAs - Kelly Ann Parry

Kelly Ann Parry: Video

12.00pmTeaching styles of Australian junior tennis coaches - Mitchell HewittKen Edwards & Shane PillPrinciple Based Teaching Approach for Understanding Games - Ryosuke Tsuchida & Ryoji Isano
12.15pm

Teaching older athletes new tricks: Coaching croquet through Game Sense - Jenny Clarke

Jenny Clarke: Jenny Clarke presentation

Current Situation of Game teaching in Japan - Naoki Suzuki & Jun Fujisawa
12.30pmQ & A Session for all SpeakersQ & A Session for all Speakers
12.45pmLunch  
1.30pm

Special presentation: John McKee (Fiji national rugby coach) Coaching for decision-making in rugby

Video | John McKee presentation



Parallel Session 3: Game Sense in Coaching
Session Chair: Dr Jenny Clarke
Parallel Session 4: Game Sense in Teaching
Session Chair: Mohammad Shah
2.10pm

Developing a ‘Sense’ of Team (Part 1): Lessons from High Performing Teams - Andy Martin & Lana McCarthy

Andy Martin & Lana McCarthy: Video | Andy Martin & Lana McCarthy presentation

Representing teachers’ experiences of Game Based Approaches through Poetic Transcription - Kendall Jarrett

Kendall Jarrett: Video

2.25pm

High Performance Coaching: Comparison between a highly successful coaches’ approach and Game Sense - Ricardo Pimenta

Ricardo Pimenta: Video | Ricardo Pimenta presentation

Games Concept Approach (GCA) and Game Sense: A Practitioner’s Reflections of Physical Education (PE) Teacher from Singapore - Mohammad Shah Razak

Mohammad Shah Razak: Video

2.40pmUsing working memory training within a Game Sense paradigm in football - Joe HallMaking learning visible – the pedagogy of questioning in a Game Sense approach - Shane Pill
2.55pm

Tactical Games meets Inquiry meets Mosston and Ashworth in the Olympic sport of Handball - Susan Wilson-Gahan

Susan Wilson-Gahan: Susan Wilson-Gahan presentation

A challenge to the idea of an authentic version of a Game Based Approach - Bianca Couto de Aguiar

Bianca Couto de Aguiar: Video

3.10pmQ & A Session for all SpeakersQ & A Session for all Speakers
3.25pmAfternoon tea and Book Launch: Dr Barrie Gordon Developing Thinking Players (DTP) Baseball/Softball
3.45pmDr Barrie Gordon: Developing Thinking Players (DTP) Baseball/Softball
4.05pmInvited Guest Speaker: Assoc Prof Jeanne Kentel (University of Canterbury, NZ) Getting lost in the play: turning to the sense of game sense.

Parallel Session 5: Game Sense in Coaching
Session Chair: Dr Judy Bruce
Parallel Session 6: Game Sense in Teaching
Session Chair: Dr Chris North
4.35pm

"Developing a ‘Sense’ of Team (Part II): Applying Theory to Practice in High School Sport Teams - Lana McCarthyAndy Martin

Lana McCarthy & Andy Martin: Lana McCarthy & Andy Martin presentation 2

Decision-Making Process for Game Shaping – for Invasion Game units in 5th and 6th Grade - Jun Fujisawa
4.50pm

Undercover Game Centred Approach in a Men’s English Non-League Football Team: An auto-ethnographic account - Amy Price & Joana Fonseca

Amy Price & Joana Fonseca: Video

Game Sense Pedagogies: Changing Roles for Students and Teachers - Chris North

Chris North: Video

5.05pmGame Centred Training and Learning in Australian Rules football – Progressions and Challenges - Matt Jones

A Change in Cognitive Domain of Students by Utilizing ICT in TGfU Approach - Seiji Ookuma

Seiji Ookuma: Video

5.20pmQ & A Session for all SpeakersQ & A Session for all Speakers
Wednesday 18 November
Time                 EventMedia         
8.15amDr Shane Pill (Flinders University) – Volleyball
9.15amDr Christina Curry (Western Sydney University) – Basketball
10.15amCoffee break
10.45amDr John Evans (University of Sydney) - Rugby
12.10pmLunch
1.00pmDennis Slade (Massey University) – A game centred approach to teaching handball: Introductory lessons.Dennis Slade presentation
2.00pmProf Richard Light (University of Canterbury) – Cricket for Primary Schools
3.00pmDr Mitchell Hewitt (Tennis Australia) and Dr Shane Pill (Flinders Uni) – TennisMitchell Hewitt & Shane Pill presentation
4.00pmAfternoon tea
4.30pm“Town Meeting” Open discussion – Led by Richard Light
5.00pmClose
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