Task 3 - Review of your Coaching Session

Reviewing the planning and leading of your sports activity

You are going to write a full review of the session that you delivered. Gather all the feedback you received from the session you delivered. This may be from the participants, observers or your assessor.

 

1. To prepare your review you need to look at the feedback from your assessor and the participants. From this information prepare a self evaluation and review of your session. These should show what your strengths and areas for improvement were in the planning and leading of your sports activity. You should consider how your planning affected the session you delivered and what you would change for future sessions. You should then examine yourself as a sports leader. What attributes did you display and how did this have a positive or negative effect on the session?

 To show that you are keen to progress as a volunteer leader you are going to prepare a development plan to share with the head coach.

2. Create a development plan to discuss how you can become a more effective leader. Look at your areas for development and set SMART targets to show how you will develop as a sports leader. In your development plan you should include the following areas:

• an aim – this will highlight which area you hope to develop
• objectives that show how you will meet your aim
• short-, medium- and long-term goals to show how you will meet your aim and how long it will take
• activities and opportunities that you can access to become a better leader e.g. a Level One coaching course
• barriers that might stop you achieving your aim.

 Carry out research into activities that may help you become a better sports leader using textbooks, the internet and journals.

Planning and Leading Sports Activities

Leading a Sports Activity - Assignment 1

Nobody has completed this task yet. If you have finished your work for the moderation of the previous 2 units, you should now do this:

Scenario:

You are working in a small, but developing, coaching company. You have contacted a local newspaper to discuss how to develop interest in volunteering in sports leadership. The editor has asked you to write an article that explores the requirements of becoming a successful sports leader, using examples of successful sports leaders to demonstrate attributes and responsibilities required.

What it takes to be a sports leader:

Carry out research into successful sports leaders using textbooks, the internet and journals. You may also consider sports leaders who have led sporting events that you have taken part in and/or sports leaders who coach professional or national sports teams.

Prepare an article for the newspaper about the attributes and responsibilities of sports leaders.

Within the feature you should compare and contrast the attributes of two successful sports leaders.  

To help you, below are the responsibilities and attributes you need to apply to the sports leaders that you use:

Attributes:

● Skills (communication, organisation of equipment, knowledge)

● Advanced skills (activity structure, target setting, use of language, evaluation)

● Qualities (appearance, enthusiasm, confidence)

● Additional qualities (leadership style, motivation, humour, personality).

Responsibilities:

● Core responsibilities (professional conduct, health and safety, equality)

● Wider responsibilities (insurance, child protection, legal obligations, ethics and

values, rules and regulations).

All of the information that you need for the different attributes and responsibilities can be found on this link:

http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/feandvocational/sportsstudies/btec/btecfirstsport2006/samples/samplematerial/btecfirstsport2eunit5_pg193-206.pdf

Try to give examples of how the sports leaders you have selected, demonstrate the different attributes and responsibilities.

Work for Thursday 29th January

In my absence you must do one of the following:

• Complete your coaching session plan
• Write a review of your coaching session (if you have delivered it)
• Look at the post below and complete one of the many pieces of coursework that is outstanding

If you are writing the review of your session, answer the following:

• What went well?
• What would you change?
• How did the pupils behave?
• Did you communicate clearly with your group?
• How could your drills have been improved?

 

Year 11 - Session Plans

By the end of the lesson you should have completed your coaching session plans and published them. Please make sure that you have included the following:

• Equipment needed
• Adequate warm up
• Main session that includes 2 drills for 1 skill
• Conditioned game to conclude

You must also include the following in your plan:

• Organisational notes (how many in a group/work in pairs)
• Descriptions of the drills
• Relevant coaching points for the skills you are teaching
• YouTube videos of your drills embedded on your blog
• Pictures that illustrate correct technique of the skills

Unit 6: Leading Sports Activities

In this unit you must plan a coaching session, deliver it, and then review the session based on the initial planning and your leadership of it. Today I would like you to begin planning this session and consider the following in your planning:

• Sport - Football/Netball
• Year - 7 or 8
• Time - 30mins
• Size - 10 pupils

You should plan your session on blogger and use the following headings as a guide:

Equipment - Write down all of the pieces of equipment you will require for your session

Warm Up - Choose a pulse raising activity, stretches and sport related activity

Main Session - Choose one skill to focus on and plan 2 drills to improve that skill. You first drill should be easier than the second so that the pupils can make progress

Game Situation - You should condition the game so that it allows students to practise the skill learnt in the lesson. For instance, a passing session may end with a conditioned game whereby each player is only allowed 2 touches as this will encourage more passing in the game.

Leadership in Sport

In the shared area you will find a pdf file called 'Sports Coaching'. A few pages in, roles, skills and responsibilities of a Coach/Leader are written about.

Choose a famous manager and write about ways that he/she demonstrates some of the qualities from the text:

• Try to give specific examples
• Try to select 2 from each category of Roles, Responsibilities & Skills
• Use a picture of the person you have chosen
• If you finish, try to convert it to www.thinglink.com which some of you have used before