SPC Flashcards
Coaches roles and responsibilities (1)
Off field - skills and behaviors of a good coach
Planning and reviewing
Coaching juniors, working with parents
Professional development
On field (2)
On field: Player coach relo Ethical issues Coach's code of behavior Managing risk
Authoritarian coaches
Strict and firm
Make decisions without player input
Severe on poor performance
Focus on winning
Democratic coaches
Uses multiple assistant coaches
Responsible for managing other coaches
Good communication
Co-operative coaches
Listen to player ideas, makes final decisions
Seek input from players
Easily approachable
Casual coaches
Easy going
Players have input to training
Allows players to make game decisions
Australian Sports Commission code of behavior
Emphasizes responsibility, trust, competence, respect, safety, honesty, professionalism, equity and sportsmanship
Cognitive stages
Little or no knowledge of skill
Recognize steps to skill
Needs demonstrations
Associative stages
Practice the skill
Start preparing for competition stage
Autonomous stage
Perform skill automatically accurately and consistently
Athlete needs expert coach
Automatic nature with skills
Fixed practise
A drill
Good for skills done in same way
Varied practise
Frequent changes of task
Performer constantly faces different situations
Massed
Skill mastered over repetition
Distributed practices
Skill mastered mixed with other drills or ‘rest’
‘Rest’ is another activity
Whole practise
Skill taught as a whole
