Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills

Code:

663

Acronym:

663

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Sports Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCD	14	First Degree in Sports Sciences (2011/2012)	1	-	3	-	1
			2

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The course "Teaching the Fundamental Movement Skills" aims to present, discuss and experience the basic notions of motor development phases. The emphasis is on the issues around the fundamental movement skills which are assumed to be the basis for sport-specific skills developed later in life. The course presents different views on applying these concepts.

Learning outcomes and competences

- Understand the interdependency between motor development phases

- Understand how different theoretical views alter the comprehension about motor development

- Understand the relation between biomechanics, motor control, and motor learning with the area of motor development.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Short History
1.1 Stages, Phases, Steps and Milestones
1.2 Inter and Intra task models
1.3 Fundamental Movement Skills

2. What does it mean to be basis/fundamental?
2.1 Necessarity
2.2 Task-oriented
2.3 Transfer enigma

3 Theoretical Basis
3.1 Theoretical Views
3.2 Control laws

4 Motor learning (a short introduction)
4.1 Transformation
4.2 Search

5 Fundamental movement skills/ Fundamental movement patterns
5.1 What and which
5.2 Motivation
5.3 Intra and inter paradoxes

6 Motor tasks/skills features and their learning
6.1 Redundancy
6.2 The issue of prescription

7 Transfer
7.1 Whip-like effect
7.2 Body/implement coupling
7.3 Power

Mandatory literature

Keith Davids; Dynamics of skill acquisition. ISBN: 978-0736036863
Kathleen M. Haywood; Life span motor development. ISBN: 978-1-4504-5699-9
Ian Renshaw; The^constraints-led approach. ISBN: 978-1-138-10407-5
Go Tani; Comportamento motor. ISBN: 978-85-277-3047-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teached classes

Laboratory classes to familiarize with a range of methodological designs, instrucments, and research procedures.

Field work.

Discussion groups.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Exame	60,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	39,00
Frequência das aulas	15,00
Trabalho de campo	2,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

The distributed assessment with final exam consists of a theoretical component and a practical component. To successfully complete this curricular unit, the student will have to obtain a grade ≥ 9.5 in each of these components.

Theoretical component: exam.

Practical component: presence in at least 75% of classes taught; participation in activities developed in classes; carrying out and presenting work; participation in the online component.

Students who do not expect to be able to attend at least 75% of the practical classes taught (students with special status, e.g., student workers, highly competitive athletes) must contact the course director within a maximum period of two weeks after teaching the first theoretical class, so that it is possible to define an alternative training and assessment plan for the curricular unit.

If contact does not occur after these two weeks, the student will be considered a regular student.

Students covered by legislation relating to special attendance regimes may be required to take special tests (e.g., demonstration of skills in handling research instruments; knowledge and application of protocols and procedures in the field of laboratory practice) to prove knowledge and skills related to the objectives and contents of the curricular unit.

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted average of the following components:

    Assignment discussion: 20%
    Written assignment: 20% (discussion on the topic in thesis format)
    Exam: 60%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students covered by legislation relating to special attendance regimes may be required to take special tests (e.g., demonstration of skills in handling research instruments; knowledge and application of protocols and procedures in the field of laboratory practice) to prove knowledge and skills related to the objectives and contents of the curricular unit.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who do not expect to be able to attend at least 75% of the practical classes taught (students with special status, e.g., student workers, highly competitive athletes) must contact the course director within a maximum period of two weeks after teaching the first theoretical class, so that it is possible to define an alternative training and assessment plan for the curricular unit.
If contact does not occur after these two weeks, the student will be considered a regular student.
Students covered by legislation relating to special attendance regimes may be required to take special tests (e.g., demonstration of skills in handling research instruments; knowledge and application of protocols and procedures in the field of laboratory practice) to prove knowledge and skills related to the objectives and contents of the curricular unit.

Classification improvement

Improvement of the classification will only be allowed in the Tests/Exam component, when this has been approved. Held during the appeal period, the exam to improve the classification will involve all the theoretical and practical material taught.