Classification of skills on a continua
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can classify skills based on their characteristics and place them on the difficulty, environmental and organisational continua.
Key learning points
- 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.
Keywords
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 misconception
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.
Ensure pupils understand that specific skills are required and that they can name multiple examples of skills from different sports.
Teacher tip
Edexcel's Practical Performance Assessment Criteria document is a useful source for lists of sport specific skills which students can practice placing along the different continua for their own sports.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these best defines a skill?
Q2.Which of the following makes you a skillful performer?
Q3.Match these skills to their sport.
rugby
cricket
sailing
volleyball
figure skating
Q4.What does the word classify mean?
Q5.Which order would most people learn the following skills in?
Q6.What does the word environment means?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these are not skills?
Q2.Put these skills in order from the most closed to open in terms of environmental factors.
Q3.Match the continua to its description.
classifying how basic or complex a skill is to perform
classifying how open or closed a skill is
classifying whether a skill is low or high organisation
Q4.Low organisation skills have separate subroutines. Put these subroutines in order for the tennis serve.
Q5.A skill which is complex is likely to have which of these characteristics?
Q6.A skill which cannot be broken down into subroutines is classified as organisation.
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