The Teesra

Chatting with ChatGPT — now I know why I am uncomfortable with Instruction as a coaching tool!

ChatGPT, tell me something about “direct instruction”, please.

The focus of direct instruction is on the teacher as the primary source of knowledge…
ChatGPT

And that is what has been worrying me about the application of Instruction as a coaching tool — that focus on the teacher (and on the instruction itself).

My new AI coaching guru. A “conversation” with ChatGPT about coaching pedagogies.

There has recently been some discussion about a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called ChatGPT, and a lot of that talk very negative.

How it might enable students to cheat by writing their essays for them, how it might destabilise white collar work, even how it might become a “morally corrupting influence”.

For all that, I thought it might be interesting to quiz ChatGPT about a current topic in coaching, traditional instruction, Direct Instruction, and non-linear pedagogies applying some of the concepts of ecological dynamics.

And I have to say that I might have found myself an “AI coaching guru”!

Session plans — batting (hitting straight) and bowling sessions with u11s (hard ball).

I am setting myself a task for this year, to write up more session plans.

My preference is to ad lib around a session “theme”. I know what I’m going to do next, but no-one else does, so the plans will be for the coaches I work with and also for a couple of the boys who might appreciate a little less chaos and a bit more structure from my Saturday sessions!

It will work for me, as well, as much to capture the thinking behind the “plans” as actually to use them again.