Introduction to the sport activities and methodology of teaching motor skills through the Teaching Game for Understanding (TGfU)

Abstract

The sports skills teaching can ensure flexible and transferable motor skills if it uses a solid methodological system. Recent studies carried out in the neu-roscience fields and the consequent didactic applications, have accelerated the study on the selection of contents, organizational methods and methodologies in physical education and in the introduction to sport, to integrate and modulate factors inherent to the quantity and quality of the proposals practices. This study deals with the Teaching Game for Understanding (TGfU) issue, a model of methodological intervention that assumes the role of facilitator of learning and promoter of analysis and understanding of the activity. The teacher’s ability to ask questions and the ability to develop appropriate tasks to answer the questions are essential for motor success according to the TGfU model and to make use of a quality teaching pedagogical model. The interaction of teaching styles will allow the student to choose and exe-cute the most appropriate executive variants and to link previous acquisitions to the motor proposals in progress to structure open and non-linear learning.