Practice Questions

Question 1

Name the three main competing agendas within PE and how these agendas are influential?

Answer 1

Sport
(Kirk, 2011) - “leads to PE being taught as a sport technique”

Health (Cale, 2010) “PE and health have a long standing relationship”

Education (Griggs, 2007)
“historically seen as a second class subject”

Question 2

What are the four main drivers of the enacted curriculum?

Answer 2

Situational
Material
Professional
External

Question 3

Evaluate the concept of “outsourcing” within PE?

Answer 3

+ve
-perceived increased subject knowledge
-increased enthusiasm
-increased subject knowledge
-perceived benefits of coaching abilities
-increased flexibility in recruitment

-ve
-deprives generalist teachers of expanding skills
-lack pedagogical knowledge
-lack student specific needs
-lack classroom management skills

Question 4

What do Soltz and Thornburn (2017) state the four main learning domains are?

Answer 4

Cognitive- “adademicsation” of PE
Affective- “subjective consciousness”
Physical/ psychomotor- has weight in schools, sport technique
Social/ socio-moral- socially engaged- community and character development

Question 5

What does the AfPE state that we can do to promote holistic learning?

Answer 5

KS1

Head, Heart, Hands

= more holistic

Developing the whole child through PE

Behaviour and attitudes, Personal development,
Quality of PE

Impact - affected by
- (Intent and Implementation)
- (Leadership and management)

Question 6

What is the main aim of the “Spectrum of Teaching Styles” and what are the main elements?

Answer 6

A theoretical framework that is based on the idea that teaching PE is a chain of decision making

1. The axiom
2. The anatomy of any style (pre, impact, post)
3. The Decision makers
4. The Spectrum

Question 7

Name the styles within the reproductive cluster?

Answer 7

Teacher centred
Look back on and recap past knowledge

A-E
Command
Practice
Reciprocal
Self-check
Inclusion

Question 8

Name the styles within the productive cluster?

Answer 8

Learner centred
Expansion upon past knowledge

F-K
Guided discovery
Convergent discovery
Divergent discovery
Individual
Learner initiated
Self-teaching

Question 9

How have traditional approaches to PE been criticised?

Answer 9

1. Been said to adopt a one size fits all approach
2. Ineffective at enhancing knowledge and understanding
3. Disconnected from wider movement cultures

Question 10

What are the main aims of MbP?

Models Based Practice

Answer 10

(O’Donnovan, 2011)

-“ensuring that teachers have a comprehensive and coherent plan for teaching and learning”

1. PLANNED
2. CLARITY OF PURPOSE
3. INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH

Question 11

TGfU model?

Answer 11

(Bunker and Thorpe, 1982)

STAGES AND PRINCIPLES

6 STAGES
1. Game form
2. Game appreciation
3. Tactical awareness
4. Decision making
5. Skill execution
6. Performance

4 principles: Representation, Exaggeration, Tactical Complexity, Sampling

Question 12

CL model?

Answer 12

Pupils working together to complete a clearly assigned task

ELEMENTS

(Johnson et al, 2008) “aims to maximise their peers learning whilst also maximising their own”

5 KEY ELEMENTS:
1. Positive interdependence
2. Individual accountability
3. Promote face to face interaction
4. Interpersonal skills
5. Group processing

Question 13

SE model?

Answer 13

(Siedentop, 1984)

Felt that teaching was decontextualised

(1984- “aims to develop pupils in the fullest sense” )

ASPIRATIONS + CAR FFS
1. Authentic XP
2. Diverse roles
3. Social and personal learning

Culminating event
Affiliation
Record keeping

Festivities
Formal comp
Season

Question 14

The importance of net and wall games?

Answer 14

“Using pedagogical principles in net and wall games to enhance teaching effectiveness”

L Mandigo and T Anderson (2003)

“one of the major benefits of using the TGfU approach is the notion that tactical awareness can be transferred between games in the same category”