Play Practice: The Games Approach to Teaching and Coaching Sports

This text presents a clear alternative to traditional approaches that will revitalize your own teaching and coaching. It replaces mindless games and mechanistic training methods with creative and enjoyable practices that improve students' skills and enhance their tactical understanding. This book focuses on teaching game play first instead of techniques and skills - an approach that sets it apart from other games-approach texts. It provides answers to many of the problems that sports educators face, such as motivating reluctant or resistant students. It provides both the theoretical basis and the practical plans for changing practice from drudgery into an educational experience young people look forward to.