More Teaching Games for Understanding: Moving Globally by Joy I. Butler (English

Description: More Teaching Games for Understanding by Joy I. Butler, Linda L. Griffin The e-book format allows readers to bookmark, highlight, and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the HK site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when your order is received. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With More Teaching Games for Understanding: Moving Globally, you can learn and apply an innovative approach to teaching games that has been used around the world for 30 years in school and sport settings. Editors Joy Butler and Linda Griffin bring the teaching games for understanding (TGfU) approach to life for you in this practical book. More Teaching Games for Understanding follows Griffin and Butlers highly successful 2005 book, Teaching Games for Understanding. This new book is based on the Fourth International TGfU Conference held in 2008 and includes all-new chapters written by 27 world-renowned contributors representing 6 countries. The preface and foreword are written by the founders of TGfU, Rod Thorpe, David Bunker, and Len Almond. This book is not a rehash or a revision of the 2005 book; it presents all-new material on TGfU. More Teaching Games for Understanding offers a comprehensive description of the TGfU model (sometimes referred to as the tactical games model or the games sense model). The text grounds you in the models latest theory, research, and practice, and it helps you understand * various models of practice for sport and games education, * worldwide perspectives on the TGfU model, * how to facilitate flow motion in games and sports, and * how to modify games to enhance learning and achieve learning objectives. The authors use chapter-opening scenarios to draw readers in and introduce important concepts, and they provide chapter-ending summaries that help readers test their understanding of those concepts. They also offer discussion questions that function as starting points for discussion and review. This is the most complete, current, and authoritative book on the TGfU model that you can find. The breadth, depth, and quality of the chapters afford you an insiders look at this highly successful model, and its practical approach will help you readily put to use the knowledge gained from the highly regarded contributors. A small sample of what youll learn includes how to involve students both in creating games and in assessing games to shape future performances, how to employ TGfU as a coaching methodology, how to use complexity thinking as a theory to frame the learning processes involved in TGfU, how to best use TGfU in elementary school physical education settings, and TGfUs role in developing physical literacy in children. More Teaching Games for Understanding supplies you with a teaching model that will empower kids, deepen their knowledge of game tactics and strategies, help them improve their skills, and bring greater joy to them as they play games. Notes Help players learn through the tried and tested knowledge of others. Author Biography Joy I. Butler, EdD, is an associate professor in the curriculum and pedagogy department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. She began the first International TGfU Conference in 2001, established the TGfU International Task Force in 2002 and served as its chair through 2008, consulted for the second and third TGfU conferences, and directed the 2008 conference. In addition to coediting Teaching Games for Understanding in 2005, she has coedited two other books on TGfU. Dr. Butler serves as the coordinator of the first MEd Cohort with specialization in TGfU in Canada. She has been a keynote speaker around the world and has presented on TGfU at state, regional, national, and international levels. She also coached the Southeast England U17 girls basketball team for nine years, taking the team to the national finals three times. A member of numerous educational and professional organizations, Dr. Butler enjoys field hockey, basketball, windsurfing, and training dogs in her leisure time. Linda L. Griffin, PhD, is an associate dean and professor in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. TGfU has been Dr. Griffins primary research interest for nearly 20 years, and she has coauthored three texts on the subject in addition to coediting Teaching Games for Understanding in 2005 with Joy Butler. Dr. Griffin has presented internationally on TGfU on numerous occasions, and she taught and coached for 14 years in K-12 settings. She served on the planning committee for the first TGfU conference and served as chair for the Curriculum and Instruction Academy for NASPE and as Research Consortium president and chair for the AERA Special Interest Group in Physical Education. She has also served as a reviewer for various professional journals. In her spare time, Dr. Griffin likes to bike, walk and hike with her dog, read, and enjoy the beach. Table of Contents Part I. TGfU Movement in an International Context Introduction Joy I. Butler, EdD and Linda L. Griffin, PhD Chapter 1. Asian-Pacific Perspectives on Analyzing TGfU Raymond Liu Yuk-kwong, PhD Hong Kong Institute of Education Part II. Research: ReexaminationChapter 2. TGfU: Celebrations and Cautions Judith Rink, PhDUniversity of South Carolina, Columbia Chapter 3. Sport and Games Education: Models of Practice Connie S. Collier, PhD; Judy Oslin, PhD; Daniel Rodriguez, MA; and David Gutierrez, PhD Kent State University and Universidad de Castilla la Mancha (Gutierrez) Part III. Theory: Understanding, Learning, and Complexity Thinking Chapter 4. Teaching Games for an Understanding of What? TGfUs Role in the Development of Physical Literacy James Mandigo, PhD and John Corlett, PhD Brock University Chapter 5. Feeling Flow Motion in Games and Sports Rebecca J. Lloyd, PhD and Stephen Smith, PhD University of Ottawa and Simon Fraser University Chapter 6. Enabling Constraints: Using Complexity Research to Structure Collective Learning Brent Davis, PhD and Dennis Sumara, PhD University of Calgary Chapter 7. Occasioning Moments in the Game-as-Teacher Concept: Complexity Thinking Applied to TGfU and Video Gaming Tim Hopper, PhD and Kath Sanford, EdD University of Victoria Chapter 8. Ecological Thinking and TGfU: Understanding Games as Complex Adaptive Systems Brian Storey, MA and Joy I. Butler, EdD Douglas College and The University of British Columbia Part IV. Practice: Assessment, Coaching, Elementary and Secondary Teaching Chapter 9. Student-Involved Formative Assessment as a Cornerstone to the Construction of Game Performance Jean-François Richard, PhD l Université de Moncton Chapter 10. TGfU and Humanistic Coaching Lynn Kidman, PhD and Bennett J. Lombardo, EdD University of Worcester and Rhode Island College Chapter 11. TGfU as a Coaching Methodology Adriano De Souza, MA and Steve Mitchell, PhD Illinois State University and Kent State University Chapter 12. A Model for TGfU in Elementary-School Physical Education Inez Rovegno, PhD University of Alabama Chapter 13. Development of Creativity in the Scope of the TGfU Approach Daniel Memmert, PhD German Sport University Cologne Chapter 14. Unpacking Tactical Problems in Invasion Games: Integrating Movement Concepts Into Games Education Kath Howarth, PhD; Jennifer Fisette, EdD; Michele Sweeney, EdD; and Linda L. Griffin, PhD State University of New York at Cortland, Kent State University, Salem State College, and University of Massachusetts Long Description With More Teaching Games for Understanding: Moving Globally , you can learn and apply an innovative approach to teaching games that has been used around the world for 30 years in school and sport settings. Editors Joy Butler and Linda Griffin bring the teaching games for understanding (TGfU) approach to life for you in this practical book. More Teaching Games for Understanding follows Griffin and Butlers highly successful 2005 book, Teaching Games for Understanding . This new book is based on the Fourth International TGfU Conference held in 2008 and includes all-new chapters written by 27 world-renowned contributors representing 6 countries. The preface and foreword are written by the founders of TGfU, Rod Thorpe, David Bunker, and Len Almond. This book is not a rehash or a revision of the 2005 book; it presents all-new material on TGfU. More Teaching Games for Understanding offers a comprehensive description of the TGfU model (sometimes referred to as the tactical games model or the games sense model). The text grounds you in the models latest theory, research, and practice, and it helps you understand * various models of practice for sport and games education, * worldwide perspectives on the TGfU model, * how to facilitate flow motion in games and sports, and * how to modify games to enhance learning and achieve learning objectives. The authors use chapter-opening scenarios to draw readers in and introduce important concepts, and they provide chapter-ending summaries that help readers test their understanding of those concepts. They also offer discussion questions that function as starting points for discussion and review. This is the most complete, current, and authoritative book on the TGfU model that you can find. The breadth, depth, and quality of the chapters afford you an insiders look at this highly successful model, and its practical approach will help you readily put to use the knowledge gained from the highly regarded contributors. A small sample of what youll learn includes how to involve students both in creating games and in assessing games to shape future performances, how to employ TGfU as a coaching methodology, how to use complexity thinking as a theory to frame the learning processes involved in TGfU, how to best use TGfU in elementary school physical education settings, and TGfUs role in developing physical literacy in children. More Teaching Games for Understanding supplies you with a teaching model that will empower kids, deepen their knowledge of game tactics and strategies, help them improve their skills, and bring greater joy to them as they play games. Details ISBN0736083340 Year 2010 ISBN-10 0736083340 ISBN-13 9780736083348 Format Paperback Media Book Publisher Human Kinetics Publishers Country of Publication United States Short Title MORE TEACHING GAMES FOR UNDERS Language English DEWEY 796.077 Publication Date 2010-06-23 Subtitle Moving Globally Edited by Linda L. Griffin Illustrations 12 illustrations Pages 296 UK Release Date 2010-06-23 Imprint Human Kinetics Place of Publication Champaign, IL NZ Release Date 2010-06-23 US Release Date 2010-06-23 Author Linda L. Griffin Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2010-06-22 Audience Age 18-99 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161821472;

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