TEACHING GAMES WITH PURPOSE
More Than Just Rolling Out The Ball
Find yourself using the same old games year after year in your #PhysEd classes or team practices?
Looking for a way to get your students excited about learning?
Keen to develop “thinking players” who can adapt to changing game situations?
The Teaching Games with Purpose online course will give you the strategies and techniques you need to make this a reality. This course is designed for physical education teachers, sports coaches and anyone who is interested in how to mix fun with learning through game play.
TGFU FOcusED
Discover how to teach games through a Teaching Games for Understanding approach, using Game Categories to transfer learning.
TACTICAL COMPLEXITY
Explore how to build tactical complexity through the teaching of game play in each different TGfU category.
PURPOSE DRIVEN GAMES
Find out ways to teach games with purpose. Design and teach new games to your students with a clear purpose and watch learning grow.
DEVELOP THINKING PLAYERS
Learn strategies to enable your students to become "thinking players" capable to making good decisions through game play.
MODIFYING GAMES
Learn how to modify games by varying challenge levels within games. Level Up, Level Down or just simply Change the Challenge.
GAME RESOURCES
Access a variety of exclusive resources that will enhance your teaching of games, including easy to follow Game Sheets you can use straight away.
ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
Easy to use assessment strategies, resources and tools to help inform your design and teaching of games.
COURSE COMMUNITY
Interact with other students in the course community and share ideas and resources on how to teach games with purpose.
Course Curriculum
Course Content
Game Resources
*FREE with PREMIUM & TEAMS pricing levels
Pricing
For individuals choose between the BASICย and PREMIUMย levels.ย
Learn together with our TEAMSย level which includes unlimited team member enrollment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most frequent questions and answers
Upon purchase your will be enrolled in the course. You will receive your username and password via email within 7 days of registering.
No! Enrolment in this course gives you LIFETIME ACCESS to all content. Login and learn whenever you have the time.
The course community is hosted on Facebook and all enrolled students are invited to join. Within the community you can discuss the course, ask for help or share your new ideas.
If you went through the entire course start to finish without stopping it would probably take you 2-3 hours. On average students report spending 10-15 hours engaged in this course.
This course contains a number of exclusive game resources not available anywhere else. By registering for the PREMIUM or TEAMS levels you also gain access to the Game Design & Assessment Resources for FREE.
The BASIC and PREMIUM levels are designed for individual students. The TEAMS level enables unlimited members of your department or team to enrol in the course (as long as you all work for the same school/organization).
Upon completing the course you will be able to download a certificate of completion for your records.
This is completely dependent on your school/district/state requirements. It doesn’t hurt to check with your authority before enrolling if you are worried about this.
Being a teacher I understand how school budgets and purchasing works. If you do not have a credit card to register email me at nathan@iphys-ed.com to discuss how we can get you enrolled.
While I believe this course is an amazing resource, if you are unhappy with your purchase, contact me to let me know your issues and discuss a refund.