Browsing by Author "Kallio, Tuukka"

Aims. Aim of this qualitative study was to examine how Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) fits for physical education in elementary school, according to the year 2014 curriculum. This study examined what parts of the physical education curriculums tasks, aims, evaluations process do Teaching Games for Understanding fulfil. Especially it examined elementary schools physical education curriculum for grades 1-2 and 3-6. This study aims to give teachers tools to develop theirs teaching to be more play like and more motivational for kids. There are no prior researches but the hypothesis was that Teaching Games for Understanding fits well with the curriculum criteria because it is one of preferred teaching styles by National Board of Education. Methods. The study method was qualitative grounded theory text content analysis. Data of the study consist of texts of the curriculum, physical education based theory and Teaching Games for Understanding model based theory. Results and conclusions. The results showed that Teaching Games for Understanding does fit well for physical education in elementary, according to curriculum of the year 2014. With the TGfU-model the tasks and aims of the physical education could be achieved. Evaluation process also followed the same guidelines in TGfU-model and in the curriculum. The results reinforced the perception that the model fits for teaching that follows the curriculum and teachers should use it for enhancing student’s motivation and satisfaction in physical education. In the future it would be interesting to examine how much Teaching Games for Understanding model is being used now in the elementary schools and what kind of thoughts teachers have about it. Interesting topic to examine would also be that how has the teaching of ball games changed through new curriculum or has it stayed the same as before.