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This two-day course offers coaches the opportunity to increase the flexibility and adaptability of their practice. It will enhance depth of understanding of skateboard coaching; how people learn, how to coach for a range of different learning outcomes, how coaches can develop their own skills and how coaching may be individualised, differentiated and managed.
The Coaching Skills course is designed to draw out the attending coach’s experiences and strategies both to build on these and enable knowledge sharing between course participants, thus building each coach’s repertoire.
We understand that many coaches at this level prefer informal learning and development opportunities This programme incorporates a number of learning methods combining virtual reflections, practical coaching and classroom-based sessions to introduce new concepts and supporting knowledge.
The Coaching Skills course is designed to offer coaches tools and frameworks to develop their coaching practice. Below are some of the topics covered in this course.
Golden Rules of Learning
A Learning Skater’s Brain
Cognitive Load Theory
Skater learning strategies
Coaching Priorities
Rainbow of Coaching Styles (coach-led/ student-led)
The Biopsychosocial Model
Decision Making
Learning design: (continuous, blocked, varied, random)
Nested Planning
Framework Planning
Why Reflection Matters
Reflective Techniques
For those already on the SBGB Coach Development Pathway who have completed the Get Rolling programme and have banked at least 200 hours of teaching experience since they completed Get Rolling.
We know that the UK’s skateboard coaching community also includes many experienced coaches who may not have completed Get Rolling, however, have accrued years of on-the-job knowledge and experience. If you are an experienced coach looking to further develop your coaching skills, this course is for you.