Altering Your Style of Teaching for Demands of Different Practice and Competitive Situations

Altering Your Style of Teaching for Demands of Different Practice and Competitive Situations

Before deciding on one's teaching style, one must view the performer

or team, to establish their strengths and weaknesses. By doing this

the teacher can decide what needs to be taught in using either

command, reciprocal, discovery, or guided discovery styles of

teaching. When choosing which method to use, the leader must decide

what they want to achieve, by using that specific teaching method and

how each type of style is going to affect the team or individual they

are teaching.

Mosston and Ashworth's spectrum of teaching styles is a continuum,

based on who makes the decision about the learning environment.

However when choosing the type of teaching style a number of factors

should be taken into account, for example the nature of the task, the

ability of the performer as well as the personality and experience of

the teacher. The coach or teacher should recognise these factors and

use a variety of styles accordingly to maximise the learning

environment, making it fun and enjoyable when learning. There are

numerous styles which can be put on a spectrum, with the above four

styles being the most common.

The Command style of teaching is where the teacher adopts a more

strict approach when teaching, making all decisions with no feedback

from the group. Those being taught have little social interaction and

have no decisions to make. Benefits are that it ensures the objectives

are clear, routines are established and control is maintained. The

Command style of teaching is useful when instructing large numbers of

beginners who need to learn th...

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teacher will then be able to put that skill into an open situation.

The difference between practice and competitive situations is that in

a practice session you are taught the skill repetitively in a

comfortable, stable environment. In a competitive situation there are

many factors that may affect the athlete's performance, such as

opposition and environment. In a practice session the coach can give

one on one tuition, but in a game, the teacher is having to talk to a

team, where the teacher cannot give enough time to help each player

separately and to work on each of their poor kills. If a teacher was

teaching a beginners lesson to netball, he/she would first

Bibliography

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