The Teesra

Category: pedagogy

_how_ we coach: theory, practice & philosophy

  • Introducing swing; what is “coaching”?

    Interesting re-post from @ImSporticus, just before Christmas.

    It got me thinking about how I would coach someone to swing a cricket ball.

    And the programme I came up with included a bit of direct instruction, a lot self-guided discovery, maybe some feedback, a demo & a drill to scaffold learning.

    Rather more to it than “hold the ball like this, follow-through like this”.

    This post started as a (lengthy) reply to the tweet from @ImSporticus. If you follow @theteesra, you might have seen all this already.

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  • The (blogging) year in review — the year of pedagogy

    A very strange year.

    Lots of free time (too much free time) spent online.

    Not all frivolous — I did commit to finding out more about online teaching, and was struck by the emphasis that educators (those delivering the online courses I took, at least) placed on how people learn. Which highlighted for me just how important it is for teaching (and coaching) to adapt to support learning, both online and face-to-face.

    Obvious, perhaps. But how often do we consider the learner’s experience of learning when planning and delivering a session? Yes, it has to be Fun and Engaging, Challenging, perhaps. Purposeful. Active. Safe.

    But do we ever stop to think about what we are really doing when we coach? Or how athlete’s actually learn?

    In 2020, I published 12 posts categorised under “pedagogy” (a category I have stretched to cover any post which discusses how we coach: theory, practice & philosophy).

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  • Coaching 5-year olds — top tips?

    Interesting challenge posed by ConnectedCoaches, the online community hosted by UK Coaching.

    But only three?

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