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The Tactical Games Approach is an excellent teaching guide when teaching upper elementary, middle school, and high school students as it allows students to play more dynamic games.  At this point in the students schooling, i taught correctly, they should have the basic skills down and be able to preform complex dynamic movements.  They also should have a general idea of sports, rules, and competition.  The tactical games approach simply combines all this so that students are learning new content but in a sports like setting.

 

The general order for the tactical games approach is your warm-up, introduction, game, tactical problem with practice task, game, tactical problem with practice task, game, and this repeats until you're done with the lesson. The warm-up can be anything that gets the students moving but typically is themed to whatever you're going to be playing.  For example if the lesson is soccer then you may have the students warm-up by dribbling a soccer ball.  The introduction should have a hook, something to get the students excited for what they are about to learn.  The first game should be small sided with little rules to get the students to more of just focus on the equipment while the later games will have extra rules to reinforce the practice task.  For example if the thing your students are working on is passing routes in football then a rule could be that every person has to be quarterback and receiver at least once.  The practice task generally means that students are breaking the game into one fundamental part and focusing on that in their small groups of 3 or 4. 

 

I plan on using this all to get my older students excited about learning new content.  Middle schoolers and high schoolers get bored doing the same things all the time and you shouldn't have to teach them to catch by throwing a ball into the air by yourself so the tactical games approach allows the students to practice new skills but in a more dynamic, competitive way.  I would also structure the lesson plans around what students may be doing in out of school activities.  Teaching volleyball and football in the fall.  Baseball, laccrosse cricket in the spring.  Basketball, soccer in the winter.  Just trying to keep them interested and allow the students to relate what they learn in sports to what they learn in class and vise versa.  This approach also allows students who don't play sports or those who play only a few to learn new skills that aren't taught during what they are doing.

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