Coaching EssentialsThis course is a self-paced online course designed to be taken by individual coaches. Coaching Essentials is a sport-neutral course geared toward coaches of athletes age 13 and under participating in a recreational, noncompetitive setting. Coaches will come away from the course with a solid understanding of fundamental coaching concepts and basic coaching responsibilities. |
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Coaching Essentials is a sport-neutral course geared toward coaches of athletes age 13 and under participating in a recreational, noncompetitive setting. Coaches will come away from the course with a solid understanding of fundamental coaching concepts and basic coaching responsibilities.
In this interactive online course, you’ll learn to prepare for your season and provide the best possible experience for your athletes. The course is supplemented by PDF downloads provided within the course. As you progress through the online course, you’ll be prompted to read excerpts to complete course activities.
The course includes many interactive exercises featuring audio clips and Flash animation activities that apply and enrich concepts from the book excerpts. The course also includes a handy Coaches’ Clipboard feature that brings together the many PDF forms, documents, and detailed plans for successful practice sessions and game-day coaching into one handy reference. The course concludes with an online 30-question test.
Guided by a mentor coach, coaches face learning challenges in the following units:
Finally, you’ll take the online course test, which covers material from the book excerpts and the online course.
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Audience: Administrators, Volunteer Coaches, Parents
Level: Volunteer
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