Course Description
Course Goals: A Teaching Games for Understanding (TGFU) Approach
- For students to improve their technical and tactical playing ability through an understanding of why each skill is needed and how to apply skills appropriately in singles & doubles tennis.
- For students to have the knowledge and ability to analyze their own and other player’s game performance and stroke play using basic diagnosis and correction.
- For students to experience how to progressively teach tennis to enable learners to play the game as part of an active lifestyle.
Course Events: Building Skills in Anticipation of Meaningful Events
- A major, international pickle ball tournament (Feb 5th) in which your team will compete against others for ownership and bragging rights of the famed EPHE 117 Pickle ball Championship trophy.
- A major, international tennis tournament (Mar 26th) in which your team will compete against other teams for ownership and bragging rights of the famed UVic EPHE 117 Tennis Championship trophy.
Background and Context
Both Tim and I have extensive tournament competition and coaching credentials and experience, including coaching (Tim, Coach; Scott, Assistant) the UVic Tennis Team in the early 2000s. We played competitively together as doubles partners for multiple years and have numerous titles to our names. My tennis resume is provided below.
Creative Commons license
EPHE 117: Introduction to Tennis by Scott Gerrity is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 Unported license.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from Scott Gerrity.
Technologies Used in the Course
Tim and I used multiple technologies to assist students in their learning. One was a small tracking assessment application prototype that a fellow graduate student was developing. We helped him test it while also giving students a tool they found useful to assess each other's play making strategies. You can see it demonstrated in the video below. The second was a small iStore mobile application called Ubersense. We used this extensively on the court to capture short videos of student strokes or plays, at times juxtaposing the videos side by side with more experienced players and voicing over simple instructions. We would capture these on court, send them immediately to student email addresses or upload them to the course Moodle site for later viewing, depending on the size of the video. Ubersense is also demonstrated below in the video, along with student blog comments on the use of these teaching strategies.
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