Developing Future Secondary Health and Physical Education Teachers as Leaders in
Games Teaching

The main goal of my oral presentation is to create discussion amongst those of you who are involved and/or interested in the training and development of future secondary Health and Physical Education teacher candidates in the curriculum area of games playing.

As a starting point in this discussion, the current model used by myself and instructors in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education (FKPE) University of Toronto will be outlined and explained.

In recent years there has been much written about different games teaching methods which have evolved from the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model originally proposed by Bunker and Thorpe (1982) and updated by Butler and Griffin (2005). Although I acknowledge the origins of this model, it is two other models that have evolved from TGfU which I currently use in the teaching of games at FKPE. These are the Game Sense model proposed by Richard Light(2012) and the Play Practice model suggested by Alan Launder and Wendy Pilz (2013).

HPE Teacher candidates are required to read Game Sense by Richard Light (2012) and Play Practice by Alan Launder and Wendy Pilz (2013) in Year 3.