Game-Based Teaching and Coaching as a Toolkit of Teaching Styles

Although some may think of game-based teaching as a ‘tactical’ teaching style instructionally distinctive by an emphasis on guided discovery, this article shows that it is more accurate to think of it as a range of teaching styles or a ‘toolkit’ of styles. Mosston and Ashworth's spectrum of teaching styles is used to analyze examples of learning experiences to show the range of teaching styles observable when using a game-based teaching approach. It is possible for three types of discovery learning to take place when using a game-based approach.