Understanding

Pedagogical strategies to foster UNDERSTANDING:

• Create well planned lessons that ensure all activities are linked to achieving curricular expectations and/or outcomes.
• Encourage deeper forms of understanding that go beyond simple knowledge.
• Encourage various forms of communicating knowledge, analyzing movement, and applying movement and its principles across and within a wide variety of physical activities.
• Encourage students to be “intelligent movers.”

Visit the links below to discover activities that foster UNDERSTANDING:

• TGfU (Teaching Games for Understanding) Instructional videos
• Dr. Tim Hopper’s TGfU Website
• MPETA TGfU Overview
• TGfU Clipboard
• Lead Up Games Clipboard