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 with the youngest children.
(more…)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.
(more…)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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