Teacher Resource 1

An introduction to sportsmanship, gamesmanship and deviance

Instructions and answers for teachers

This Learner Resource supports OCR GCSE (9-1) Physical Education.

When distributing the activity section to the students either as a printed copy or as a Word file you will need to remove the teacher instructions section.

Introduction



This is a practical task that will allow pupils to experience sportsmanship, gamesmanship and deviance in a variety of activity contexts.

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Aims

The aims of this activity are:

  1. For learners to gain an understanding of the meanings of sportsmanship, gamesmanship and deviance.
  2. To allow learners to apply their knowledge of ethics in sport in a range of practical activities.

Organisation

You will need to set up an activity for the pupils to participate in. Invasion games will work well.

This activity could be used as an ice-breaker. It will work well without pupils having any prior knowledge of the topic.

You will need to have copies of the three different Learner Resource cards.

The activity

  1. Explain which practical activity that the learners will be participating in i.e. basketball.
  2. Split the group into three teams. This could be a mixture of participants/coaches/spectators.
  3. Hand each group one of the resource cards. Allow an appropriate amount of time for each team to read the information and plan their tactics for the game. Explain that each team member is to behave as the card asks them to for the duration of the match.
  4. Play a game between two of the teams for an appropriate amount of time. The third team are to observe.
  5. Play a second game between two different teams without any further conversation.
  6. Discuss as a group what happened. Allow pupils to work out which group was displaying each behaviour type.
  7. Using the definitions below, discuss the three behaviour types. Make clear distinctions between positive and negative deviance. Use this discussion to get learners to differentiate between the two types of deviance.

Extension activities/questions

Changing to an individual activity and giving pupils a free rein over their chosen behaviour type could be a useful extension task. Learners will recognise each behaviour type more quickly the more times they try them out, but the learning will become embedded.

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