3.1.2.2 Practise

3.1.2.2 Practise

1. Presenting Practise

   • Whole Method a skill is taught without breaking it down into sub-routines or parts usually used for highly organised skills e.g. cartwheel
     • unsuitable for complex skills, can't cope with high attentional demands, skills that includes danger need to broken down
     • forms kinesthesis, fluency of skill, understands relationship between sub routines of the skill, quicker to learn and transfer to real situations are positive
   • Progressive part known as 'chaining' is when serial skills are broken down into constituent parts and then learnt 1 1+2 1+2+3 1+2+3+4
     • the flow of skill is lost, transfers can be difficult, time consuming and not all skills can be broken down
     • useful for low organisational, complex and dangerous skill, focuses on particular elements, helps motivate, increases confidence and gives an initial understanding of the skill
   • Whole-Part-Whole you try the whole routine to get a fell and establish the easy and difficult parts, take out the difficult parts to practise separate then put the routine back together used for low organisational skills e.g. gymnastic routine
     • transfer can be difficult and can't be used for highly organised skills
     • teacher can concentrate on individual weaknesses while learner feels the movements and is quicker than the part method

2. Types of Practise

   • Massed is when the learner practises continuously at a skill without any breaks or rest intervals
     • sessions can lead to boredom, fatigue, poor performance and learning, lose concentration and attention
     • time saving, god to groove the skill, can stimulate performance conditions when there is an element of fatigue
   • Distributed practise is when the sessions have rest intervals and are used for continuous, complex and potentially dangerous skills
     • can disrupt the flow and rhythm, no replication of real life situation
     • MOST EFFECTIVE allows you to recover mentally and physically, gives opportunity to receive feedback, mental practise and keeps motivation
   • Varied practise is when the skill is practised in many different environment and is used for open skills to allow the schema to develop
     • helps to develop decision making, adapt skills and allows overlearning to occur
     • the skill has to be learnt
   • Mental Rehearsal is a cognitive process where the performer goes through the movement in their mind without physical movements, muscular neurones are still firing as if the muscle is active
     • need to know kinesthesis as the muscles are remembering what to do
     • help to solve problems, understand sequence of the moves and stimuli to attend to and helps to groove a correct response