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Category: Games based learning
cricket games-based learning
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Jail-break cricket – another variant for CGBL
Here is a game variant that can be used to encourage players to apply a specified batting technique in a practice session.
We call it “jail-break cricket” – players are challenged to hit a ball to a specified target area to release team mates who have been “sent to jail”.
The game encourages the batter to play a particular stroke, so could work well as the final, modified game in a whole-part-whole session.
It also teaches team spirit (it is amazing how quickly the “jailed” players come to actively encourage their batting team mates) and introduces the concepts of responsibility and consequence – if you are the last “free” batter, you really do need to try to hit the target to free your team mates; if you are dismissed, you go to jail, and if the last batter does not release his team mates the innings closes.
N.B. I did not invent this format, but have only adopted (and adapted) it from others. But it works so well I wanted to share it. (more…)
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2014 – nearly over (2): CPD – coaching “children” and “young people & adults”
Over the last few months, I have been working my way through the new ECB CPD courses for level 2 coaches.
The new courses are presented in two distinct streams – Coaching children and Coaching Young People & Adults (YPA).
Interesting, though, in the light of my experiences this year coaching players aged 3 and 63, that the “Coaching children” workshops all look to be just as important for the YPA environment (13 and older) as for children.