"How can you alter your style of teaching to meet the demands of practice and competitive situations for individual, racket and team activities?"

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"How can you alter your style of teaching to meet the demands of practice and competitive situations for individual, racket and team activities?"

There are various styles of teaching suited to different situations and types of teacher. Considered factors should be age of the learner, experience and reasons for participation. This researched by Mosston and Ashworth. They believe that teaching and learning involve decisions about what is taught, what's learned, how and when. This is through the spectrum of teaching styles.

Style: Teacher Control

Command

Practice

Reciprocal

Self-check

Inclusion

Guided Discovery

Problem Solving

Individual programme

Learner Initiated

Self teaching Learner Control

At one end's the teacher style, the opposite being pupil centred. The spectrum looks at options in the relationship between teacher and learner. It's based on decision making which Mosston believed could be grouped into 3 areas:

1. Pre-Impact- concerned with decisions made before and teaching is given

2. Impact- involves decisions about our performance and how we carry out the performance

3. Post-Impact - evaluation of our performance and feedback from the learner to the teacher.

Command style enables the