Dr. Fatih Dervent

In my courses the students learn, rehearse, and practice instructional models including Play Practice, Sport Education, Teaching Games for Understanding, and Situational Game Teaching through Set Plays as well as the basic ways to integrate technology and sport coaching. My classes are based on the idea that teaching is a social and practice-based work where my focus is to equip my students to deal with complex situations and construct knowledge over time through experience. I focus on the term “learn to teach”, which emphasizes that learning occurs while engaged in the coaching experience. These experiences tied to close supervision, coaching feedback, and reflection provide my students with opportunities to develop contextually specific craft knowledge to solve the problems they encounter in new situations throughout their teaching/coaching career.