LKI212 A Constraints Led Approach to Sports Activities and Movement Learning (Autumn 2023–Spring 2024)

Introduction

An important, enduring characteristic of Physical Education is that, unlike other educational subjects in formalised schooling systems, students are educated through movement. The core aim of this course is to educate second year physical education trainee teachers to understand and apply a Constraint Led Approach to enable them to support upper secondary school students to become a skilful mover. To support this, aim the trainee teachers will be expected to pay particular attention to how their instructors, across various sports, design activities, manipulate task and environmental constraints to enhance movement skills.

 

A secondary aim of this module will be for second year physical education trainee teachers to think deeply about the movement culture of upper secondary school students and use this knowledge to design a curriculum year plan of activities and sports.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to:

 

• Understand how adopting a Constraint Led Approach can help inform their teaching to develop movement skills in upper secondary school students.

• Effectively apply a Constraint Led Approach when teaching a PE lesson, so that secondary school students improve their movement skills.

• Make informed choices on how to provide feedback to school students based upon observations of their current movement skill level.

• Be sensitive to, and knowledgeable about, movement cultures in which upper secondary students are already involved and also create new opportunities in a movement context that students have not previously experienced.

• Understand the concept of donor sports from a skill acquisition perspective. This means understanding how skills learnt whilst playing a sport can transfer across to a second sport.

Learning methods and activities

The content of the course is illustrated through practical activities, discussions / reflection, student presentations and literature. It is planned that students both individually and in collaboration discuss key topics from the course content. Examples of sports and activities in the course are movement-based activities parkour taekwondo, tennis, football, basketball, floorball, skating and skiing.

 

During the course, students will work on developing their knowledge and understanding and application of a constraint led approach across a wide variety of sports and movement activities, and account for didactic considerations.

Work requirements

80% compulsory participation in teaching.

During the course, you will demonstrate each of these attributes:

 

• Demonstrate a willingness to learn how to incorporate a Constraint Led Approach

• Be well-read around core reading texts and familiar with optional reading texts. This is so that you are able to actively engage in theory lessons and practical activities.

• Ask informed questions to instructors, on a weekly basis, to better understand how they implement a constraint led approach to movement skill learning and appreciate the nuanced approach to how they implement to support students learning.

 

The work requirements must be approved to sit for the exam.

Assessment/exam

Create a presentation (individually) Grading A-F (20 %)

• and provide an example for how to adopt a constraint led approach into the teaching moving forward.

 

Work in groups (of four) to plan and deliver a 45-minute PE lesson. Grading A-F (80 %)

• using the constraint led approach in a non-traditional sporting activity that introduces high school students to a new form of movement culture.

 

The assessment will focus largely on how PE teacher trainees interact with their student participants to support movement learning, assessors will focus on how PE teacher trainees provide instruction feedback and transitions between activities to support skill learning.

Core literature

As we are in a transition phase between two systems, we refer to the Study Handbook 2023-2024 for literature for courses in the 2023-2024 academic year: https://www.nih.no/studier/program-og-emneplan-arkiv/2023-2024/.