Sports coaching

Access Coaching session 1. Football (11/12/14)

Access Coaching session 2. Volleyball (13/11/14)

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Access Coaching (football and volleyball)  Self Evaluation of Session (13/11/14) & (11/12/14)

Session plan:

Did you produce a lesson plan prior to the start of the session?                               Yes/No

Was the session planned appropriately for the needs of the participants?                Yes/No

Was the session well sequenced: did activities link well from one to the next?       Yes/No

Did the session meet the objectives?                                                                         Yes/No

Delivery:

Did you communicate effectively throughout the session?                          Yes/No

Give an example of when this happened or could have happened: I used verbal communication well when I had to explain both the warm up and main activity to the participants. However I feel that I could have further improved my communication by also using hand gestures and giving a physical demonstration to further the understanding of the participants and also give an autonomous demonstration for the participants to copy.

Did you use the equipment and the environment effectively throughout?   Yes/No

Give an example of when this happened or could have happened: I feel that we used the environment by using the lines of the basketball court to give better guidelines during the second dribbling activity of where the participants should and shouldn’t go to avoid injury from collisions.

Did you organise the session effectively?                                                      Yes/No

Give an example of when this happened or could have happened: I don’t feel that the session was fully organised to the level it could have been, for example we had to alter our time management and extend the main game/activity to fill the full time of the session because the second dribbling activity lead to tedium very quickly as it was far too simple.

Did you actively engage in the delivery as team member throughout?       Yes/No

Give an example of when this happened or could have happened: yes I feel that I did this by giving the team members assigned positions within each part of the session (e.g. I would be a motivator for one section and next being the team member who explains the next section). This in effect meant that all of the team members (including myself) were in some way engaged with each section to be as an effective team members as possible.

Did you wear appropriate clothing for the session?                                      Yes/No

Yes I wore the appropriate clothing for the section (trainers, shorts and college shirt). This way I could become more effective in the session like for example actually participating in the session and also to demonstrate certain sections.

Did you motivate the participants and offer encouragement?                     Yes/No

Give an example of when this happened or could have happened: Yes I feel as if I motivated the participants by providing verbal feedback (mainly positive) to encourage them to keep going and achieve what each part of the session was asking of them. An example included when I kept saying ‘keep going’ to the access students to keep them motivated avoid tedium.

Did you demonstrate appropriate body language throughout?                    Yes/No

Give an example of when this happened or could have happened: Yes I feel that for the majority of the session I did this by keeping my hands out of my pockets and keeping my shoulders back to show that I was engaging with my participants and interested in the session I was explaining.

Did you position yourself effectively during delivery?                                   Yes/No

Give an example of when this happened or could have happened: I feel that for the majority of the session I positioned myself correctly, for example I tried to get my participants in front of me in a confined area so that they wouldn’t get distracted and was able to see them all when explaining something.

Did you position yourself effectively whilst supporting delivery?      Yes/No

Give an example of when this happened or could have happened: I feel that I did not position myself effectively when supporting the deliveries. E.g. I was often getting in the way of the participants during other peoples sessions as I didn’t know how they were set out due to a lack of organisation.

Key strengths demonstrated:

The key strengths I showed were; good communication with my participants to make sure they both understood what to do and could answer and queries they had, this way they will know what to do and it will avoid injury or lack of improvement over time. I showed a good use of equipment for example when we did not have the correct balls (footballs) we improvised and used soft balls instead. I also felt that another of main strengths included my encouragement, I did this in many forms such as positive verbal feedback, clapping and even some constructive feedback for the individuals who were looking to improve further. Lastly I felt main key strength was my positioning during delivery, this is because I gave the participants a given area which they had to sit in and this meant that they could not mess around as they were all in my line of sight, which in effect meant that there was less misunderstanding overall.

Areas for further development:

My weaknesses included; my organisation of the session overall, but especially when for example things did not go as planned (the time zone was not as long as expected for one of the sessions) this meant that as a result the other sessions had to compensate and lead to some of the students becoming bored and thus lost focused/messed around. Lastly, I felt that another of my key weaknesses included my positioning when supporting the delivery.

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