Coaching Ireland Coaching Children Workshop Series: Developing Physical Literacy Through Sport: Coaching Children to Think - Factsheet 4

COACHING CHILDREN SERIES: WORKSHOP 2 INTRODUCTION This factsheet aims to provide a supporting framework for the development of child appropriate sport and physical activity games. It aims to explain basic theories and methodologies of skill acquisition and gives examples of how to apply these into practice. Specifically, this factsheet gives insight into children’s FUNdamental Game Skills i.e. children’s ability to understand and manage the complexities of games and competitions. This will enable you to apply a gamebases approach to your coaching sessions. This factsheet aims to assist you to design games that support the development of FUNdamental Game Skills and deliver inclusive and differentiated sport and physical activity sessions that cater for a wide range of children’s abilities including children with disabilities. “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” Fred Rogers