Coaching younger children — challenges, opportunities, solutions

I have just begun the new season of training for National Programmes Activators in metropolitan Essex, so I have been thinking about the challenges of working with younger children (8s & under for All Stars). There are challenges, but I do believe that there are plenty of available solutions, and opportunities for coaches who work …

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” …