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The link between skills and tactics enables students to learn about a game and improve their performance, especially because game tactics provide the opportunity for applying game-related motor skills. The tactical approach we advocate in this book promotes an interest in learning games, an understanding of game play, and the ability to play games. We offer frameworks for games, provide a broader definition of game performance, and identify levels of tactical complexity for each game.
When implementing a tactical games approach, because the goal is for students to focus on successful game play, your assessment should also focus on game play (Veal 1993). The primary focus of a tactical games approach is to encourage students to become better games players (i.e., competent). Assessment helps you and your students establish ongoing feedback about solving a particular tactical problem and helps students demonstrate whether they have achieved particular goals or standards ...
This book is a collection of essays written by teacher educators with a passion for sharing knowledge, research, and insights about the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach. All our authors presented at the Fourth International TGfU Conference, which provided an arena for a restatement of the importance of games as a learning process. The authors explore language for describing games learning as a complex adaptive process that reconceptualizes the purpose of teaching games.
