Across
- 2. An aspect of formal games that can be modified as a developmental teaching strategy. For example, in soccer, playing without a goalie is a modification of the [blank] of soccer.
- 6. [Blank] models. A model of performance which is an expectation of the performance that a teacher is teaching toward, but that is contextually bound to the developmental level of the students.
- 10. Something that is done with a task within a game. An example is actually volleying a ball back and forth.
- 12. Improving performance by presenting challenges such as time constraints.
- 13. [Blank] model. A model that uses games to teach skills and strategy.
- 15. Something that is done to a task to make it more complex or easy by modifying the space or the complexity of the technique.
- 16. Teaching IN the game, for example, by providing learners with cues.
Down
- 1. A type of game model that emphasizes understanding and decision-making through modified games. For example, beginning to teach tennis by having students throw the ball over the net instead of using rackets.
- 3. Reducing or increasing the technical or tactical demands of the game. For example, by manipulating the rules of the game.
- 4. The similarity between the practice tasks and the formal version of the game.
- 5. Something that is done to a task to improve the quality of performance. For example, focusing on bent knees.
- 7. An important activity that should be undertaken by teachers to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching. For example, asking why they made certain decisions during a game or thinking about how the lesson plan compared to the actual progression of the lesson after the lesson is over.
- 8. [Blank] model. A model that progresses student learning from performing discrete skills into playing games in a systematic way. For example, in volleyball, bumping a volleyball in isolation and then bumping it back and forth with a partner.
- 9. [Blank] games. A type of game used as a "stepping stone" in which some skills or rules of a sport are introduced but there is no sequenced progression and little emphasis on tactical understanding. Not considered an effective way to teach sport. (Hint: the fifth character of the answer is not a letter, but a hyphen.)
- 11. A type of practice which uses modified games to develop skillful gameplay performance.
- 14. The teaching of game-like activities, modified games, and play practices that lead to the progression of a student's understanding and performance toward an increasingly more formal version of the sport.