For me, coaches’ Duty of Care has two components — to the player and to the wider game.
And, whilst the former is (correctly) included in coach education, I wonder if the latter — duty to the game — is as recognised anywhere near as widely.
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Ron’s March in support of the Bob Willis Fund and the campaign for prostate screening
On 12th April, I shall be walking with fellow Essex Seniors cricketers to support the Bob Willis Fund — raising money (donation link at the foot of this post!) for better prostate cancer screening — with Prostate Cancer UK.
Prostate cancer is the number one diagnosed male cancer in the UK, killing 11,500 men a year. There is still no national screening programme.
The Bob Willis Fund is supporting research to develop new tests, which is why I shall be joining #RonsMarch.
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Another guru — chatting with Google’s Bard about direct instruction (and Direct Instruction). And a lesson in asking the right question.
I posted recently about my experience with ChatGPT, and how it had helped me to clarify my thinking about the use of the coaching tool “Instruction”.
So when I saw that Google had released their own Large Language Model generative AI chatbot, Bard, I went in search of my next guru.
Once again, the “conversation” helped me to crystallise my thinking around around coaching pedagogies, I found out more about (one version) of Direct Instruction, and I learnt a valuable lesson for coaching and the use of questioning — don’t automatically accept the first answer you are given!
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The Teesra 