Thoughts from a Trial Game 2 - Thinking and Movement Education

What is the relationship between cognitive processing involved in understanding games and sports and the teaching of games and sports?
We all learnt at University that there are three components to quality Physical Education: the psychomotor component (of which PA is just a part), the affective component and the cognitive component, an area that I believe, has been neglected in our teaching for a number of years. It seems that PE teachers certainly like students to learn motor skills and, of course, fun is supposedly obligatory, but we don’t seem to teach the students how to approach elements of game play in a cognitive way. However, do the people we teach view this as important or needed? Perhaps not.

Thoughts from a Trial Game Observations 1 - PE, Sport and Physical Activity

I watched my son’s Cricket trials this week and I had the opportunity and time (as you do as Cricket spectator) to reflect on two key issues that have been unresolved in Physical Education. Firstly PE’s ‘blurred relationship’ with Sport and more recently, Physical Activity and secondly, the attitudes of students to the more cognitive aspects related to the problems that are presented in Physical Education environments, in this case, a Sport.