The Teesra

Month: April 2016

  • The future of coaching…what are we meant to do?

    There has been some discussion of the future direction of cricket coaching in the UK, specifically for younger players at the “participation” stage, on the Cricket Coaches Worldwide group on LinkedIn and also on the PitchVision Academy Cricket Show podcast.

    There does seem to be support for the concept of games-based learning, although possibly with some reservations about the role of coach intervention and feedback in directing the learning.

    But there might be the risk of a divergence of opinion between new coaches going through the latest level 2 coach development programmes (CGBL, outcomes-directed) and those coaches for whom “outcome” was just one leg on one of the coaching bugs.

    look at that bug (more…)

  • Socio cultural constraints…not something I ever expected to blog about…

    Socio-cultural constraints – how a player’s social and cultural background influences learning behaviour…not something I ever expected to blog about.

    However, translating frantically, if we were to say that the coach really should try to understand where the players come from, then this becomes a little easier to put into practice.

    Two recent examples:

    • with a 10 year old girl, county age group, lots of advice from different directions, all well intentioned but sometimes contradictory – “smile sweetly, say ‘thank you’, take on board everything you have been told…and find out what works for you“
    • with an 11 year old boy…challenge their logic, challenge their pride – “what happened then? did it work? can you do it again? and what can you do next time to get an even better outcome?”