Coach and Education: The Coaching Process

Question 1

What is coaching viewed as a pedagogic process?

Answer 1

Delivering, physiology, biomechanics, psychology etc. So a coach has specialist knowledge that they teach, deliver during training, and through technical direction.

Question 2

What is too easy to conclude about coaching and teaching?

Answer 2

Too easy to conclude that coaching and teaching are separate. You cannot deliver a skill acquisition session (teaching) without some order or sequencing (coaching), or understanding of learning (teaching), or without using implicit knowledge of your athletes (coaching and teaching).

Question 3

Name two processes that are evident for individuals to learn?

Answer 3

Knowledge and Internalisation

Question 4

Why is feedback important?

Answer 4

Feedback becomes very important as improvement derives from reasoned judgements of previous performance

Question 5

Why is communication important?

Answer 5

Therefore, communication between practitioner and athlete must be clear, with shared goals and a common language.

Question 6

Why is social understanding important?

Answer 6

Additionally, social understanding is required – community, social class, motivation, accessibility, economics, gender, ability, etc, all play their part.
(Lave and Wenger 1998)

Question 7

Where does the power lie between coaches and beginners during training?

Answer 7

Coach in charge

Question 8

Where does the power lie between coaches and athletes during training?

Answer 8

Athlete determines future (what happens during sessions) - a change or handover occurs during relationship

Question 9

Talk about Kidman’s - Athlete Centred Approach

Answer 9

Emphasis on facilitation; sharing responsibility, encouraging self awareness and self-sufficiency.

Question 10

What did Jones’ (2006) find?

Answer 10

Orchestrator – Jones and Wallace

Question 11

Explain Jones’ (2006) findings

Answer 11

Coaching is problematic, e.g. Holding a bird in your hand too tight, you crush the bird; too light it flies away. Hold it without distress, it still shits in your hand!

Question 12

What did Jones’ (2006) conclude

Answer 12

Orchestration becomes a coordinated activity expressed by coaches to plan, organise, monitor and respond to evolving circumstances to seek individual and collective improvement in those being coached.
Coaches are, therefore, flexible, considerate, open-handed, sensitive.

Question 13

What did Gilbert and Trudel (2001) find

Answer 13

Gilbert and Trudel (2001)
When a problematic situation occurs this initiates a reflective conversation;
> Issue setting
> Generate a strategy
> Experimentation
> Evaluation

Question 14

What else did Gilbert and Trudel (2001) find?

Answer 14

Who the coaches approach is important: peers, experienced coaches, informal/formal meetings, self determination.
> Access to respected peers
> Stage of learning
> Issue characteristics
> Community support