The Teesra

Category: Coach Development

aka coach education – the process by which coaches are trained, educated & developed

  • Online coach development — more than just “telling”, surely?

    A Twitter contact (X contact?) posted this the other day.

    Excerpted from ECB research into helping coaches “develop potential international batters”

    Anything that increases time spent playing at the expense of deconstructed “skill drills” is going to find favour with an advocate for the ecological dynamics and a constraints-led approach (like me!).

    So I’d buy into this as an underlying coaching philosophy, although the numbers look low, too me. Only 50% “play” for young players — so the rest is still chores?. And just 40% “…highly random and game-based…”?

    But there’s surely a problem with “broadcast coach development”.

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  • Asking questions…but no-one answers

    This post from icoachcricket appeared on Twitter earlier this week.

    icoachcricket is the Twitter presence of the ECB Coaches Association, the registration body for cricket coaches accredited through the ECB Coach Development pathway. The twitter account has more than 2,700 followers.

    A few likes and retweets. But not one of the followers has responded.

    Yet, this seems to be an important topic for coaches. Understanding the people they are coaching with.

    So why the tumbleweed?

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  • How do coaches learn to be better coaches?

    When I first I qualified as a coach, back in 2009, I was told “get your coaching badge, then go and do some coaching.”

    It felt odd, having just completed a “taught” course, but it seemed almost a recognition of the failure of coach education to actually teach the new coach what they should do.

    It’s as if the coaching qualification was just a license to practice, rather than a preparation for (coaching) life.

    But what is wrong with coach education? How do coaches learn?

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