Had a look at one of our PEX students today teaching a Year 9 Girls group in Invasion Games. Her summary of the class was that they were fairly inactive and not really motivated. I have included the lesson / unit I advised her to run and was wondering if anyone wants to try it. I'll post the results of her lesson on the next blog.
The email to her went as follows.
Shame we have not done our Invasion Games course yet. I would stick with a passing catching game in the style and develop this eventually towards netball. 2 goals per team (one in each corner of the netball court and put them on the ground so it does not require the girls to shoot into a high goal - can be a crate, markers set in a square or a hoop). Simple rules: no moving once you have possession, movement down the court is by passing, drop ball is play on. If the team in possession throw it out it is the other team's ball and if they intercept it, then it is their ball. If the person in possession is able to tag an opposition player with the ball, then they must stand beside until the pass and then they can rejoin. Score in any of the two goals and scoring results in a restart from the back of the court for the team scored against. If you are doing strategies and tactics, then you need the class to understand the foundation principles of play / action for Invasion Games
With Possession (3): Make an appropriate pass, move to create or receive a pass, advance to score
Without possession (3): Track the ball and receivers, pressure the receivers and the passer, play player to player, zone (mark and area) or a mix.
Hopefully you are on the basketball courts so be very direct with the teaching and have a fairly direct warm up with girls working in threes across the court (2 on one side, one on the other). They can start with slow runs, then skips, side gallops, 3 step hops, combinations and then add in a ball to work with.
Play the game, rotate the teams and then bring in a rule change. Each team must have at least one player who stays in the back half of the court (who stays there) and then one player who stays in the front half (who stays there). The others can go anywhere on the court. You can rotate these numbers (eg two must stay in each half). Rotate each of these players and give some direct feedback on each player's role whether a 'forward', 'mid' or 'back'.
You can then give each of them a target: one team must score within seven passes, the other must take more than 10. They will then work out how to achieve it without showing the other team what the strategy is (there is a whole lesson in that).
Next, go to thirds and then do the same thing, keep certain players in thirds, others to roam free. Keep the goals the same. You can then rotate the thirds 90 degrees to encourage overlapping play from behind (players cannot swap across thirds but can move up and down. Or rotate the thirds back to a netball style court and divide in half (each third now 2 squares for a total of six squares). Players can swap squares but there cannot be two players at a time in one square. This allows them to begin to swap, move for passes and you can teach zone defence and presses.
Anyone else wish to implement this? Have a go and drop us a line to tell us how it went.
Greg
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Using this at the moment and going extremely well. At first using a Game Sense approach was met with much opposition from students within a volleyball and softball context. What has been pleasing however is that as time has gone on, both my Yr 7 and 8 classes have become very responsive to the challenge of movement thought.
ReplyDeleteWithin my Yr 7 class we have been looking at netball. I started by simply playing a game with a hoop laid on the ground at each end for a goal. Students were not allowed to move with the ball but there were no restrictions on where they could go. Slowly we have made the game more like netball with zones and more recently a ring (I have kept the hoop underneath the ring as a second scoring option). The tactical insight has been outstanding with many ideas on going back to go forward and moving to space to create a pass.
Interestingly I asked my students to simply play the game today with no direct questioning about where improvements could be made. What I saw was 22 thinkers who when their team was not on the court, was not hitting the boxing bags or sitting down, they were instead huddled together discussing how they would set themselves up over the court. Very impressed to say the least.
What I also found interesting is that an "experienced" teacher commented that I was not using the netball bibs and why? When explained that they were not required the eyes rolled as that is certainly not how to teach netball. Hopefully this train of thought can be soon changed.
Try the AFL corridors with this unit. You get some great overlap and then try to have two goals so you can develop the concept of switching play, a key strategy in an invasion sport. Then focus on the team without possession and develop zones and player to player.
ReplyDeleteGood luck.
Greg
Oh and another thing, remember this is not about using 'Game Sense' but developing 'game sense' or game play intelligence' in our students. Just think we should keep this as a clear objective. TGfU and other Game Centred Approaches can develop this but lets be ready to use a variety of methods to develop this.
ReplyDeleteGreg