Another intriguing podcast from ECB Coach Development, this time with Pete Sturgess, formerly National Lead for the Foundation Phase with the FA.
Category: Games based learning
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Holiday camps — turning long days into learning opportunities
Over the Easter holidays I coached on a couple of holiday camps. Good fun, but quite hard work.
For coaches and players.
Six hour days are long, not only for the younger groups. How often does a 16 year old get to play cricket all day? With the proliferation of short-form (not a bad thing, of itself) even a 40-over game is the exception. Yet the coaches are charged with engaging the players for a similar length of time, or longer.
I wonder if we could develop a narrative to run through the day? Perhaps by linking to a day’s match play. And putting the skills we coach into context.
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Where does the “meta-learning” & socialisation happen? Or — there has to be more to cricket coaching than hitting and bowling.
Back in the day, schoolboy cricketers (and it was, almost exclusively, boys, back then) played ay school, and were invited to play “adult” cricket, initially to make up the numbers and do the running around for the older players.
But a lot of essential learning happened in the game, talking and watching, often in the bar after the game.
Understanding how to win. How not to lose so often. Why a bowler might prefer an unorthodox field setting. How to get on with the rest of the team.
But that learning opportunity has largely been lost.
Partly because young players are not being led astray, into the bar, as used to happen. Probably not a bad thing!
But also as the organised pathways develop, and more youth cricket is played, young players possibly get to play less with more experienced players.
And I think that loss of exposure to more experienced players might need to be addressed.
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