Traditionally games activities have been taught and coached alongside Fitts and Posner’s theory of learning stages. This involves participants developing skills through cognitive, associative and autonomous stages and when they are seen as proficient enough in their chosen area of activity, opportunities are provided to contextualise skills in a game situation. For example, a typical football session could be structured around developing passing and would involve a warm-up, skills practice and a game to end. Tactics are introduced late on, when participants have progressed to the autonomous stage.
Cognitive Identification and development of the component parts of the skill. The early stages of skill learning and development.
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