Miss A. Muller
SHMD 119 Sport Didactics & Coaching
Unit 12
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Planning for Teaching
1. Benefits of Planning
2. Reviews
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Benefits of Planning include:
Keep athletes actively involved resulting in learning and
enjoyment
Provide challenging and relevant learning situations
Teach skills in the appropriate progression
Pace the learning and conditioning so that athletes are not
overloaded or over trained
Make the best use of time, space and equipment available
Minimize discipline problems
Increase your confidence in your ability to manage situations
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Step 6: Plan practices
Step 5: Select the methods for teaching
Step 4: Establish priorities
Step 3: Analyse your situation
Step 2: Know your athletes
Step 1: Identify the skills your athletes need
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How do you identify the specific skill you want to
teach?
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Use your own experience
Use books, CD’s etc.
Clinic courses
Consult with experienced coaches
Take course
Observe the sport
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You should know the following about your athletes:
1. Age
2. Playing experience
3. Does the players know each other
4. How well do they accept responsibilities
5. Do they know the traditional approach or the games
approach
6. Present skills
7. Capabilities
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Before each season, make sure you know your
athletes, even if you have coached them before, do a
pre-season evaluation each time, because:
1. It helps you establish starting point for instruction
2. It helps you assess the improvement of the athlete
3. It helps you to select players
4. It helps you organize safe and equitable practice
games
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• Evaluate athletes on essential skills that
they can safely perform
• You can evaluate them through a formal
testing program – trials
• You can evaluate them through practice
games
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You need to collect
information specific to your
situation
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Use Form 12.5 Identifying and
Evaluating the Skills You’ll Teach derived
from Martens, R. (2004:250) Successful
Coaching, America’s best-selling coach’s
guide 3th ed. to establish priorities about
what skills you will be able to teach and
practice given your situation
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Guidelines for selecting one instructional method over the other:
 Traditional approach is effective when there is one clear best way to
perform a technical skill with little decision making in its use
 Traditional approach is appropriate when risk of injury is significant
 Games approach more effective when it is important that the athletes
learn the principle underlying the technique
 Games approach more effective when learning tactical skills
 Games approach more effective when learning responsibility and
leadership
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Basic elements for a practice plan are:
 Date, time and length of practice session
 Objective
 Equipment needed
 Warm up
 Practice of previously taught skills
 Teach and practice new skills
 Cool down
 Coach’s comments
 Evaluation of practice
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What is review?
Why is this important?
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