Football school putting a different spin on game-based learning

Chelsea Channing

By Chelsea Channing
Published February 9, 2018

AN eSports elective might sounds like a subject dreamed up by a FIFA-obsessed teenager when asked what they’d rather be doing at school, but in actual fact, this is a course currently being developed by Dean Groom, Head of Curriculum at International Football School (IFS) in New South Wales.

IFS is an independent co-educational school located on the Central Coast, where the school day is divided into two hours ...

This story appeared in the February 2018 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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