scUK Safeguarding & Protecting Children
Protect yourself, the young people you are coaching and your employer by understanding and following good coaching practice. Learn about child abuse and how to handle situations if you have concerns.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
identify good coaching practice to promote a positive relationship with children
identify sport situations and coaching practice that might constitute either poor practice or possible abuse
identify ways of dealing with your own feelings about child abuse and state what constitutes neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse
recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse and appreciate why reporting it is often so difficult
identity appropriate action if a child discloses he/she has been abused
identity appropriate action if abuse is suspected and explain the role and responsibilities of other experts (e.g. police, social services)
describe appropriate practice that reduces the likelihood of abuse occurring.
scUK Equity in Your Coaching
Everyone should have access to sport, regardless of gender, age, race, ability, faith or sexual orientation. As a coach, you have an important role to play in ensuring this happens. The workshop will help you to apply and extend your existing skills to meet the needs of present and potential participants.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
• Explain what equity means and why it is important
• Identify barriers to participation
• Use appropriate language and terminology
• Identify and challenge inequitable behaviour
• Interpret the legal framework that affects coaching
• Identify how they can become more equitable
• Establish where to go for further information
scUk Analysing Your Coaching
Discover methods of analysing your own coaching performance and identify areas for development. Learn how to develop and implement an action plan to enhance your coaching.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
• Analyse your own performance against a checklist to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
• Recognise the different behaviours you exhibit in your coaching
• Devise and implement an action plan to change aspects of your own coaching behaviour where required
• Monitor any improvements in your coaching practice
An Introduction to Long-term Athlete Development (MS1)
sports coach UK is working closely with Sport England, the Youth Sport Trust and other UK partners to develop this workshop and associated resources to make sure they support the implementation of Long-term Athlete Development (LTAD)/ Player Centred processes across the UK. This workshop is seen as vital in ensuring a common understanding of LTAD and its consistent application in the coaching world. It will also greatly assist towards the use of common terminology amongst all the various user groups. This workshop is aimed at coaches to enable them to understand the key concepts of LTAD and what it means to them and their practice.
By the end of this workshop coaches will be able to:
• Identify and recognise the reasons for adopting LTAD
• Identify and recognise the concepts and key principles of LTAD
• Recognise and respond to the implications for coaches and coaching
• identify appropriate action to integrate LTAD into their coaching
An Introduction to the FUNdamentals of Movement (MS2)
This practical workshop explores the concepts of Agility, Balance and Co-ordination and speed (the ABC's). It compliments other coach education resources which may focus on the movement skills of running, hopping, skipping etc. This workshop assists coaches to observe, analyse and coach good movement patterns within their sessions whether multi skill or sport specific.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
• Agility – dynamic stability, starting and stopping, momentum, acceleration, rhythm
• Balance – establishing a stable core, static stability, exploring centre gravity and base of support
• Co-ordination – related to disassociating body parts and the coordination of explosive actions including jumping, throwing, striking and kicking
scUK A Guide to Mentoring Sports Coaches
Mentoring is a powerful tool in the education and development of sports coaches at all levels. This workshop will help you as a mentor to support coaches' learning and focus on how learning occurs.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
identify your role as a mentor
develop your mentoring profile
increase the effectiveness of your mentoring relationships by developing practical mentoring skills
design a mentoring programme that best suits the needs of your sport and the level of coaching.
Coaching Children & Young People
Discover the needs and motivation of young players. Learn how to deliver effective coaching sessions to meet the level of skill, developmental stage and motivation of each young player.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain why children and young players take part in sport
- identify why children and young people are a special case
- plan and deliver coaching sessions to maximise learning and enjoyment
- match your own coaching to meet the developmental stages of children and young people
- follow good practice when coaching children and young people.
How to Coach Disabled People in Sport
This workshop tackles questions that are frequently asked by sports teachers, coaches and participants about how to work with disabled sports people. This includes a whole spectrum of new ideas for inclusion, the workshop will introduce and offer guidance to any coach involved with disabled people in sport, the emphasis being to introduce coaches to the Inclusion Spectrum and effective practice.
At the end of the workshop, coaches will be able to:
determine how to include disabled people in sport
select appropriate coaching activities
create effective coaching environments
Coaching Methods and Communication
Unlock and develop your communication skills to build and maintain a positive and effective coach/player relationship. Learn the principles of good communication and coaching styles and how to use them to meet the needs of your performers.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
identify and explain your own coaching style
assess your own communication skills and action plan to increase your effectiveness
build and maintain good relationships.
Planning and Periodisation
The sports coach UK workshop Goal Setting and Planning and resource A Guide to Planning Coaching Programmes have both recently been through a major review to reflect best practice in this area, linked to the latest thinking in Long-term Athlete Development, in particular periodisation of athletes and teams. The new workshop and resource and now called Planning and Periodisation.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
describe the processes involved in effective planning
gather information on the demands of their sport and the training needs of their performers
explain and apply the adaptation process
divide the year into training phases of different emphasis
integrate all elements of performance into individual training programmes
explain the importance of monitoring and evaluating performance in the context of an overall plan.
Improving Practices and Skill
Find out how skills are acquired, developed and retained so you can structure your practice in the most effective way.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
explain how techniques can be executed and improved by using all the information available to the performer
identify how skills can be broken down into phases and how each phase can be improved
explain and use different ways of presenting techniques, appropriate for the level of performer
structure progressive practices in their sport to maximise learning and develop skilful performance.
