The Teesra

Category: Whole-Part-Whole

  • Session plan(s): Video-Part-Whole

    I am a great believer in games- and scenario-based learning.

    Games engage games players when drills don’t.

    Well designed games retain important elements of the real activity to help players develop “skills in context”, not just drilled technique. Using the terminology of the constraints-led approach (CLA), games need to be representative of the playing environment, and retain important specifying information.

    I also like the whole-part-whole session structure — play a game, modified to reward a specific skill; practice that skill; play the modified game again.

    But sometimes, the initial “whole” maybe needs to be primed, put into context.

    And with the proliferation of access to video highlights of so many great moments from the past, perhaps it is time for a new session format.

    How about Video-Part-Whole?

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  • “Wipe clean” and whole-part-whole — bringing the two concepts together?

    In his recent ECB podcast, Pete Sturgess talked about learning design in session planning and mentioned the “wipe clean activity”, a (short) distraction between the introduction of a new skill or technique and further consolidation.

    A new one, on me, but perhaps it could be combined with whole-part-whole.

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  • Session plans — batting (hitting straight) and bowling sessions with u11s (hard ball).

    I am setting myself a task for this year, to write up more session plans.

    My preference is to ad lib around a session “theme”. I know what I’m going to do next, but no-one else does, so the plans will be for the coaches I work with and also for a couple of the boys who might appreciate a little less chaos and a bit more structure from my Saturday sessions!

    It will work for me, as well, as much to capture the thinking behind the “plans” as actually to use them again.

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