Thoughts on the two models

This semester was a great learning experience!!!! The group work was a bit difficult at times with everyone having such busy lives but we made it happen. It is not hard to see how to incorperate both the Social and Personal Responsibility Model and Teaching Games for Understanding – Teaching a Tactical Perspective models into the classroom. I liked the visual used from the Social and Personal Responsibility Model, I thouhgt that it was a great way to show young children what types on things teachers are looking for from their students in  a way that can visually be seen and used as a reminder to the children. During the group work for this model it was interesting because it made us think of games that we thought would best represented the model, making us think more outside the box then just assigning the same drills kids do each year before doing a game at the end of the P.E. unit. Teaching Games for Understanding – Teaching a Tactical Perspective was a great model to learn, I think this model was a great way to reallly make you think out side the box and focus on one/ two tacticle problems at a time. The games that the groups came up with were fun to play and really show how many mini games there are or could be for any particular game. It was alittle more difficult for the groups that got target (the mini golf course was awesome creativity) but they did a great job working with what they had. I will for sure bring both of these models into my future career in teaching. These models show how you can have fun and gain valuable skills and understanding of the game in a different approach then drills, game, repeat. These models will help myself and the children become a more well rounded at activities and hopefully give them a different aspect on how P.E. can be more then a competative enviroment, but one that focuses on the group as a whole not individually.