Tactical Problem #3

Basketball:

Basketball is an invasion game, with tactical problems such as moving to open space to maintain possession of the ball for your team, placing the ball into the hoop, and defending your hoop by staying close to your opponent.

Keep-Away:

Keep-Away is a game to allow students to practice their dribbling skills while keeping their head up to have attention on their surroundings. It is essential to be aware of your surroundings so that you know at all times where your team members are, your opponents are, and as well as where the hoop is.

Each player has a ball and everyone begins in a boundary. Depending on the group size, half court usually works well. Players go around dribbling their ball and try to knock out other players balls, while protecting their own as well. This is a simple game, but a fun and worthwhile experience for students to practice their dribbling, keeping their heads up, and protecting their ball.

 Around the World:

This game can be played in groups or by oneself. It helps for practicing shooting the ball at many different angles and positions. Each players starts in one corner of the key, and each time he or she makes a basket they move onto a new position around the key. They key is the “world”. You can make it so that each player cannot move on to the next stage until they make the basket, or that they have to go back to the beginning if they miss a basket, depending on the skill level. This is another simple game, but a great way to practice shooting on different areas of the court. Also make sure to go over the proper techniques of shooting a ball.

Tactical Problem #2

This week I am focusing on tactical problems associated with invasion games, more specifically soccer. Some tactical problems include:

-          Marking up and reading the opponent  to regain possession of the ball

-          Moving to open space to maintain possession of the ball

-          Scoring against the goalie

1 on 1 :

This game/drill is excellent practice for older groups of students or in a coaching situation. It allows students to work on maintaining or regaining possession of the ball, as well as attacking the goal. Have players divide into two separate groups and line up on either end of the goal posts. Set up 2 cones parallel to the goal posts typically at the 18 yard box, or further out for more of a challenge. On go, the first player in each line must run to and around their designated cones and meet in the middle. As the players are running the goalie will kick a ball to the center of the two cones. The player to reach the ball first will play offensively, and the other defensively. The defensive player tries to stop the other from scoring and get possession of the ball, while the other tries to score and maintain possession. The pair goes until either one scores, the goalie stops the ball, or the ball goes out of bounds, then the next pair goes. This is an active and efficient game to help players practice a number of skills by combining game-like situations into one activity.

Explode:

This game is fun for all ages, and teaches the importance of controlling the ball. It is important to control the ball to be able to maintain possession. Every player has a ball, and begins in a small designated area. Have them dribble the ball around while keeping it close, using the insides of their feet. Players will discover that they have to keep the ball close and their heads up in order to not run into other people in the small space. It is important to practice keeping your head up so that you can see where your team mates are as well as the open spaces. At some point the teacher yells out “EXLODE”, and then all players run as fast as they can while dribbling their balls to a boundary. Boundaries can be hoola-hoops, cones, a wall, or even a net that they must score on.

GPAI ASSESSMENT FOR FLOOR HOCKEY

 http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jakurtz2/Jen/GPAI.htm

I have provided a link to the GPAI assessment that I am viewing because any assessment table that I could find was to large to fit on my Blog Page. The assessment table can be located at the bottom of the page of this link.

This particular Game Performance Assessment Indicator is assessing Floor Hockey, more specifically, decisions, skill execution, and adjustment.

Decision Making involves shooting, passing, support, defending, and backing up.  Skill Execution involves shooting, passing, and receiving. Finally, Adjustment includes moving to the puck, and playing defense. Furthermore, under each of these categories students are assessed according to their appropriateness and inappropriateness (A's and I's) on a scale of 1 to 5.

This is a very simple example of a GPAI assessment, but nonetheless just as effective. It is important to assess students, and show them these assessments with comments, so that they can learn from their mistakes, develop a better understanding of the game, improve their abilities, and grow as a person

This is the table that was used in this particular GPAI assessment.
Unfortunately, I could neither make it smaller, or my page bigger...

Names	Decisions		Skill Execution		Adjustment
	A	I	A	I	A	I
Smyth (F)	IIIII (5)	III (3)	III (3)	I (1)	III (3)	I (1)
Jackson (M)	II (2)	III (3)	III (3)	I (1)	I (1)	IIIII (5)
Reed (M)	IIIIII (6)	I (1)	IIIII (5)	(0)	IIIII (6)
Carson (F)	IIII (4)	I (1)	IIIIIII (7)	IIII (4)	III (3)	II (2)
Gode (F)	I (1)	IIII (4)	I (1)	II (2)	II (2)	III (3)
Cindar (M)	IIIII (5)	II (2)	IIIII (5)	II (2)	IIIII (5)	II (2)