This week’s podcast looks at an expanded notion of the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model and argues that we need to think differently about teaching. We need to move away from practices that see us focusing on the cognitive and psychomotor – the thinking and doing aspects of learning so to speak – and focus instead on the whole child. It suggest that we can do that, in games teaching, by allowing children to try different sports, by showing them representations of the game, by exaggerating different aspects of the game and by adjusting the tactical complexity of the game. In this way children get the enjoyment and understanding that they need to, hopefully, engage in and enjoy the games they play at school
