Assignment title
What makes a good sports leader?
Assessor
Mr Gill
Date issued
Interim Deadline
8th September 2014
25th September Final deadline
2014
Qualification suite covered
Units covered
Learning aims covered
BTEC Level 1/Level 2 First Award in Sport
Unit 6 Leading Sports Activities
Learning aim A: Know the attributes associated with successful leadership?
Duration (approx)
4-6 hours (over three weeks)
Scenario
You have been given a work placement with the local authority sports
development team. You have been assigned to one of the coaches with in the
team and your main role will be to assist the coach with implementing sports
sessions within local primary schools.
10th October 2014
The coach from the sports development team believes that to become a top
coach you need to have a better understanding of what makes a good sports
coach. The coach has asked you to do some research into this and when you
are ready he has a few tasks for you to do,
Task 1
Produce a presentation to the Year 9 sports leaders, you need to paint a
picture in words and give us as much detail as you can, using examples of
two sports leaders that have been successful, about the attributes and
responsibilities of sports leadership.
You can include the following when looking at attributes and
responsibilities in your presentation:
 The skills and advanced skills that successful sports leaders
require. For example, knowledge and communication skills.
 The qualities and advanced qualities needed by successful sports
leaders. For example, confidence and motivation.
 The core and wider responsibilities needed by successful sports
leaders. For example, health and safety and child protection.
In the second part of your presentation to the year 9 sports leaders, you
need to use evidence that you have gathered about attributes and
responsibilities to make some judgements about the two sports leaders
that you have chosen.
You should clearly detail the similarities and differences between the
qualities of your two leaders.
In the presentation to the students, the coach has asked you to show your
knowledge and understanding that you have gained from your research by
concentrating on the qualities that are needed and responsibilities
required to be a success as a sports leader.
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Evidence you must produce
for this task
Presentation prepared for a group of year 9 sports leaders. The coach wants
you to use examples of sport leaders that been successful in your
presentation and to look for similarities and differences in the sport leaders
that you have chosen.
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USE OF ACTIVE VERBS
VERB
PLAIN ENGLISH
Describe
Apply
Explain
Compare and
contrast
Sources of information
Try to “Paint a picture” in words. Assume that the person that you
are describing to does not know anything about the subject that you
are describing. Tell them what you have learned.
This is where you are asked to set your knowledge, understanding or
skills into action. This may involve the need for you to show off your
skills or to relate your knowledge and understanding to the task.
Once you have described the subject, often you will need to show
your understanding (how), give further details and reasons
(where appropriate). (E.g.) Once you have described England’s poor
performance in the European Championships, you may also give
some reasons why the players did not perform as well as they could.
Here, you need to look for similarities and also any differences that
stand out. You must then “paint a picture” of the similarities and
differences. (E.g.) If comparing the performances of Sergio Aguero
and Wayne Rooney, you may comment on similarities – They are
both strikers. Both start most games for their clubs. Both have
scored lots of goals for their clubs. In terms of differences, you may
comment on Aguero being more successful at International level and
the reasons why you think that is. You may also discuss Wayne
Rooney’s poor disciplinary record.
Textbooks
Adams, M., Armstrong, R., Gledhill, A., Hancock, J., Harris, B., Phillippo, P.
and Sergison, A., (2012) BTEC First Sport Student Book, Pearson Education
(ISBN 978 1 44690 161 8)
Commons, R., Rizzo, G. and Swales, M. (2010) Level 2 BTEC Firsts in Sport
Student’s Book, Oxford, (ISBN 978 1 85008 515 7)
Expert (2011), How to Play Badminton – Including Official Rules (Foulsham's
Sports Library), Read Books. (ISBN 978 1 44742 668 4)
Hinkson, J. and Lombardi, J. (2011), Lacrosse For Dummies, 2nd edition,
Wiley Publishing (ISBN 978 0 47073 855 9)
Websites
www.britishswimming.org
Amateur Swimming Association
www.badmintonengland.co.uk
Badminton Association of England
www.britishcycling.org.uk
British Cycling
http://www.british-gymnastics.org
British Gymnastics
http://www.teamgb.com/
The British Olympic Association
www.britishvolleyball.org
British Volleyball Association
www.englandbasketball.co.uk
English Basketball Association
www.thefa.com
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The Football Association
www.lta.org.uk
The Lawn Tennis Association
www.rfu.com
The Rugby Football Union
www.sportsleaders.org
Sports Leaders UK
www.sportsofficialsuk.com
Sports Officials UK
www.ukathletics.net
UK Athletics
www.uksport.gov.uk
UK Sport
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