Enhancing students’ skill and motivation using an alternative teaching approach

Dr Joe Scott, a Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education in the School of Education and Tertiary Access at the University of the Sunshine Coast speaks with Associate Professor Brendan Moy from the Queensland University of Technology. As a former HPE teacher and an experienced university teacher educator, Brendan shares his valuable insights on how HPE teachers can tweak the design and delivery of their current learning experiences to enhance the transfer of student’s skills from practice to the performance environment as well as enhance students’ motivation. His simple message to HPE teachers is to try to incorporate some of the learning design principles of the constraints-led approach (CLA) into their teaching practice. The CLA is alternative teaching approach underpinned by contemporary motor learning theory. There is extensive research evidence to demonstrate that adopting the CLA in practice effectively meets the skill acquisition and psychological needs of the individual.