Year 11 - Physical education
Classification of skills on a continua
Sport psychology: skill and ability
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Unit Summary
This unit develops understanding of what skillful movement looks like and how it can be classified on different continua. It builds on the basic understanding that psychological factors can affect sporting performance in the same way physiological factors influence it.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to classify skills based on their characteristics and place them on the difficulty, environmental and organisational continua.
Key Notes
- Skills can be classified along continua based on their charactersitics.
- The difficulty continua classifies skills based on how complex they are to perform.
- The environmental continua classifies skills based on the level of influence environmental factors have when performing.
- The organisational continua classifies skills based on the ability to break down the skill into parts or subroutines.
Vocabulary To Learn
- skill: a learned action/behaviour
- difficulty continua: classifying how basic or complex a skill is to perform
- environmental continua: classifying how open or closed a skills is
- organisational continua: classifying whether a skill is low or high orgainsation.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- A very common mistake made when classifying skills is to name a sport without the skill. For example, trying to classify 'rugby' rather than one of the many different skills within rugby.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Skills can be classified along continua based on their charactersitics. The difficulty continua classifies skills based on how complex they are to perform.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'skill'
a learned action/behaviour.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: A very common mistake made when classifying skills is to name a sport without the skill. For example, trying to classify 'rugby' rather than one of the many different skills within rugby. Correction: Ensure pupils understand that specific skills are required and that they can name multiple examples of skills from different sports.
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