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Children’s Coaching Conference 2nd September 2015
What drives your thinking?
Philosophy
Clearly articulating one’s philosophy is a prerequisite to good practice, as it provides direction and focus in
relation to how one goes about doing their job
Cassidy et al (2009)
Philosophy
Value of developing a philosophy is that it creates a base from which to build and learn according to
a consistent, coherent way of thinking
Philosophy
Consistent failure to deal adequately with the subtlety and scope of philosophies
and their influence over practice
Lyle (1999)
Do you have a philosophy which drives your coaching with
children?
What shapes your children’s coaching
philosophy?
Coaching is a social construction, developed from a personal set of beliefs, which in turn are derived from such sources as experience,
observations and education programmes.
Lyle(1999)
For example: what does success mean to you?
Does this impact on your coaching of
children
“a coaches ability to effectively navigate and adjust to their changing context would appear to be an important component of coaching expertise” (Jones & Wallace, 2005)
Context??
“Coaching contexts are unique settings” (Cote
& Gilbert, 2009)
“an appreciation of these settings is crucial
to understanding effective coaching”
(Cote & Gilbert, 2009)
Example – Wayne Smith New Zealand /
Italy
What shapes your children’s coaching
philosophy?
What are you preparing children for through your sessions?
Success Participation
What are you preparing children for through your sessions?
How do you see learning?
•Transmitted from the coach to the child?
Learning
•Created by the child? Learning
What is most important in determining learning?
What the child does?
What the coach does?
Children construct their own meaning through activities?
Coaching must be the catalyst for learning?
Coach facilitates engagement in
learning to support goals
How do you see learning?
How do you construct your practice?
What do you base your decisions on??
High Performing Children’s Coach Practice
CHILD
APPROPRIATE SKILLS
COACHING METHODS
Constant integration & constructive alignment of declarative & procedural knowledge
ALIGNMENT – COACH ESTBALISHING AN ENVIRONEMNT
DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE
SKILLS LEARNING TASKS
COACHING BEHAVIOUR ASSESSMENT
Coach Decision Making Model
Coaching is about doing?
What do high performing coaches spend their time doing?
Improving participants development
Continually making decisions!
Coaching Practice
Goal led decision making process
Abraham & Collins, (2010)
What do you base your decisions on??
What do you spend your time doing?
High Performing Coaches
Activity
Coach ideas & decisions
UNDERSTANDING
Muir, Morgan, Abraham &
Morley, (2011)
Think about a coaching session you recently
delivered.
What bodies of knowledge did you draw upon to make
decisions about planning and delivery?
What is the balance between knowledge related to…
The activity
Coaching methods
Child
Highlight development opportunities??
How do athlete development models inform your practice?
Current Models
Stages of Talent Development (Bloom,
1985)
Deliberate Practice (Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-
Romer, 1993)
Developmental Model of sports Participation
(Cote, 1999; Cote & Fraser-Thomas, 2007)
Long Term Athlete
Development (Balyi &
Hamilton, 2004)
Foundations, Talent, Elite & Mastery Model (Gulbin, Croser, Morley, & Weissensteiner, 2013)
Current Models Psychological
Characteristics of Developing
Excellence (Abbott & Collins, 2004)
Differentiated Model of
Giftedness & Talent
(Gagne, 2003,2004)
Life-span Model of the Acquisition &
Retention of Perceptual Motor Expertise (Starkes,
Cullen, & McMahon, 2004)
Athletic Talent Development Environment
model (Henriksen,
Stambulova, & Roessler, 2010)
Model of talent development
(Bailey & Morley (2006)
Practice
Is progress through discrete stages
Is it an individual pathway?
Are you a critical consumer of the information and ideas
produced by academics and model makers?
How do athlete development models inform your practice?
(Kidman and Hanrahan); philosophies should be highly individualised, grounded in reality and be based
on personal objectives founded on experiences !!!!
