Teaching physical education for effective learning
Teaching is a complex and sometimes complicated endeavour. The goal of physical education teaching is student learning and it is the teacher who has the responsibility for directing the learning through their curriculum (program design), pedagogy and assessment decision-making. Pedagogical and content knowledge together with knowlesdge of the student as learner will direct the teaching design (curriculum) and enactment (pedagogy and assessment) process of the teacher. Physical education teaching is therefore a goal directed activity. That means, physical education is meaningless unless it is designed with a clear goal regarding what the students will learn. The pedagogy-instructional processes used by the physical education teacher need to be specific to the intent of the curriculum: the goal for student learning. Teaching for effective learning in physical education teaching therefore begins with the curriculum design - what Mosston termed the pre-impact decision making of...
