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Including Critical Thinking and Problem Solving in Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

McBride (1999) suggested that if PE teachers deliberately structure lessons with the need for critical thinking and creativity in mind, students will learn the cognitive skills and the dispositions that support them will be reinforced.

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Play with Purpose: inquiry strategies to use with players to develop thinking or make thinking visible

Learning Through Sport

Whether questioning by the teacher or coach is being used to prompt practice of thinking or 'doing', or to promote new ways of thinking or 'doing', and both may be used in a coaching/teaching session (see explanation below) there are a number of inquiry strategies that can be used to provide player questioning.