Dennis G. Slade, MPhil, is a senior lecturer and coordinator of the BEd Secondary physical education degree at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He has played national and international sport and is currently a member of the New Zealand men's masters' field hockey team. He has had a long career in teaching physical education and coaching sport and was the head coach of the New Zealand U16 boys' field hockey academy. Dennis was also a junior represenative player in cricket and badminton.

Dennis's main research, practical teaching and coaching interests are in youth sports, especially the instruction of novices and he has several publications in this genre. His latest book (Slade, 2009) Transforming Play: Teaching Tactics and Game Sense, is published by Human Kinetics Ill USA. 

Dennis is also the author of Senior School Physical Education: A Course Book for New Zealand Schools (two editions), Teaching Attack and Defence in Team Games: A TGfU Approach (5 reprints) and a CD-ROM Stick2hockey, a TGfU approach to teaching field hockey to novices. He has presented at two international TGfU conferences, was the keynote presenter for the West Zone Physical Education Conference in Singapore (2006) and has presented numerous workshops on TGfU and game sense approaches to game instruction in New Zealand. Some of his work has been included in the New South Wales, Australia, physical education curriculum on teaching games.

Some Coaching Roles:

2010 Assistant Coach Central Women U21
2009: Coach, Broadway Men's Premier Team: League Championship winners
2006 Coach Broadway Men's Premier Team: Joint Winners Manawatu Championship: Winners Central League Division 2
2003: Assistant Coach, Manawatu Emeralds Women's Team, New Zealand National Hockey League.
2001-2 Head Coach, HNZ National Junior U16 Boys Team and U16 Academy, 2001-2002

1999-00 Assistant Coach, HNZ National Junior U16 Boys Team and U16 Academy

Coach Manawatu U18 & U16's Boys teams

Coach: Ruahine Junior Football Teams: (3x Ruahine Coach of the year)