CONDUCT SPORT COACHING SESSIONS WITH FOUNDATION LEVEL PARTICIPANTS Flashcards
What is the role of an assistant coach:
-Assistant coaches work under a head coach
-Their primary role is to ensure that participants, equipment, and
facilities are prepared, organised, and ready for the training
session or competition.
What is working with children check:
-is a look at your criminal history(any charges you have been found guilty of)known as a conviction or sentence.
- the purpose is to ensure children will be safe from physical or sexual harm in your care.
Duty of care:
For example- teachers and students under their supervision, have a responsibility or obligation to care for those I have a duty of care over.
- appropriate instructions
- watching/supervising
- look out for possible dangerous situations
- think about the things you do and say
Technical vs tactical skills
tech:-refers to technique(the way you do something)
-motor skills
Tac:
-decisions + actions taken to gain advantage
Eg: positioning, set players, rotations
Elements of a session:
-Date /time
-Description of the session(warm-up, main body, cool down)
-The goal of the session
-Equipment
-Session components
-Safety considerations
Equipment:
-Set up safely
-In sage condition
-Used safely
-Safely packed up
Encountering problems:
-equipment issues
-session plan issue
-venue issues
Safety:
Every sport will have its own sport-specific safety requirements, however, there are a
few key elements that are common to most sports.
These include:
-Obeying the rules: tell us what we can and can’t do, a framework for our behaviour
-Use of protective equipment: equipment fits properly
-Hydration: water is essential for our bodily functions
Exercise =sweat =water loss
-allows students to keep up with physical demands and also to think clearly.
*every 15-20 minutes should be a scheduled drinks break.
Coaching communication:
When working with foundation-level participants a
the coach will need to adapt their coaching style, this will
Include:
-Instruction and demonstration
-Active listening
-Open and closed questions
-Non-verbal communication
-Giving and receiving feedback
-Tone and level of voice
-Terminology and language
Teaching new skills:
Instruction: verbally explain how to
perform the skill
-Demonstration: show the learner
how to perform the skill
-Applying: allow the learner to try
the skill
-Clarifying: Clarifying the learner’s
understanding of the skill and
instructions. Provide feedback to the
individual or group
Instruction and demonstration:
-Auditory: Learn best through
hearing the information (30%)
-Kinesthetic: Learning best through
doing (5%)
-Visual: Learn best by seeing
the information (65%)
Whole skill:
-simple skill
-little to no instruction is needed
-eg chest pass or dribbling basketball with one hand
- suited to more skilled beginners/faster
-negative develop bad technique
Insructual methods:
Which method is most suitable will depend on
the sports skill being taught, the type of group
and how much time you have to deliver the
information and practice the skill.
These methods include:
-Part skill (progressive)
-Whole skill
-Whole-part-whole
-breaking a skill into parts or segments and teaching each one separately
Whole skill:
-simple skill
-little to no instruction is needed
-eg chest pass or dribbling basketball with one hand
- suited to more skilled beginners/faster
-negative develop bad technique
Whole-part-whole:
-demonstrate the whole skill, then break it down, practice parts, then whole together.
-coach gives feedback after seeing the whole skill
-participants break it down and practice certain elements
-practice the whole skill again
