#1 – Direct Teaching “Follow my Lead”
Objective: Demonstrating how a drill is performed and having them follow your steps helps the
students visualise what is you are requiring them to do.
The advantage of this strategy is that it is time efficient and is a good strategy for the
introduction of new skills. The Teacher’s role is to pre-plan the routine or drill and demonstrate
it effectively to the class. The students need only to replicate your actions to learn the exercise.
The disadvantage of this is that it can be difficult to deliver individual feedback to each student
#2 Teacher Feedback “Roaming Review”
Objective: The class carry out the assigned tasks following clear instruction given prior
The advantage of this strategy is that the teacher is free to roam from group to group and
individual to individual to provide feedback and correct or re-teach the skill they are having
trouble with.
The disadvantage of this is that time may not allow you to provide individual feedback to each
student. While you are demonstrating something to one individual, another student having
problems may risk going unnoticed
#3 Peer Feedback “Collective Correction”
Objective: Students are placed in small teams and given a task that they must perform, usually
competing against other teams.
The advantage of this strategy is that the team provide feedback to each other and work
collectively to carry out the required task, correcting each other at each wrong move. It
encourages competition and fosters teamwork
The disadvantage of this is the feedback that students give to each other may not be positive and
lesser skilled students may feel intimidated and bullying can occur
#4 Self Feedback “Retrace Your Steps”
Objective: Students look at their outcome and assess if it was done correctly, or could have been
done better. This is perfect for sporting drills where correct form, set moves, or plays need to be
performed and the use of Videos, GoPro’s or suitable Iphone Apps are available.
The advantage of this strategy is that students can see for themselves the point where things went
wrong. Whether the feedback was provided by themselves, their peers, or yourself, it is sure to
be precise and correct. Think of a football coach setting up plays or set moves for their team and
it not being executed correctly, here you can playback footage and review what exactly
happened.
The disadvantage of this is that it may not be practical or realistic to have a recording of the
activity to refer to. Self-Feedback can still work in this instance if you ‘revise your steps’ and
walk through with the student exactly what they did
#5 Convergent Discovery “Here’s a problem, Go Solve
it”
Objective: Students are given a set of items, or scenario, and told what the end result needs to
look like. The students are placed in teams where they need to collectively work together to
discover how to get the job done.
The advantage of this strategy is that students learn teamwork and social skills. So the Problem
that needs solving does not directly need to be related to PE because the outcome and the steps
leading up to it are essential ingredients in any team sport, and class cohesion. The same reason
why Corporate Executives at Team Building Days perform very similar problems. It’s ALL
about working as part of a team
The disadvantage of this is that students need to be motivated to complete the task. As the
teacher you need to plan who you will ‘randomly’ grouped together to achieve the desired result
#6 Jigsaw Learning “Let’s Teach Each other”
Objective: Using a Drill that involves multiple tasks. Teach one task to each group, and then pair
each group up to teach each other their learnt skills. As an example we can use Volleyball. You
can start off with 4 groups. Teach one group how to serve, one group how to set, one group how
to dig and one group how to spike. Then have each group teach a different group their new
skill, so that they all get taught each component.
The advantage of this strategy is that once you teach the task to the individual groups, you are
then free to roam around among them and use the Teacher Feedback strategy to assist them.
The disadvantage of this is that students need to be motivated to complete the task. Lower
skilled students may not be able to acquire the skill as quick as their team mates, leading to
possible problems.
#7 Team Games Tournament “World Cup”
Objective: Flowing on from Jigsaw learning (or any other strategy that had success), the 4 teams
now compete against each other to win the tournament. Play can either be straight knockout, or
Round Robin
The Advantage of this strategy is that it applies all the other strategies together as it relies on
Self-assessment, Peer Assessment, Problem Solving and improvement. Most students love
competing against each other and this offers a fun way to cement their new skills
The Disadvantage is that some students may start to dominate play and lower skilled players may
only play bit parts. Think of the “Pass it to me kid” who is always unmarked, but never gets the
ball because his skill level is not great.
