Sports Professional Course – Co-Active Coach CPCC
The essence of the soccer culture is that soccer is the player’s game. This means that, once the game is underway, the players are expected to make their own decisions as to the right thing to do in any situation, without interference from coaches or spectators. Of course, in a professional game, there are plenty of spectators with an opinion but their input is thankfully lost in the noise of the crowd. In a youth soccer game with only a handful of spectators, loudly-voiced opinions and suggestions are easily heard.
The essence of good sports coaching of coaches is to break out the core skills and practice them with sensitive feedback. Key skills include both questioning and listening. As there are many types of questions (open, closed, clarifying, exploring, summarizing, confirming, challenging etc) it might be useful to agree what these are and when they might be used most effectively, followed by practice of each type, exclusively without using any other.
An alternative approach to sports coaching that attempts to address these key issues is a Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) or Games Sense (GS) approach or Co-Active Coach CPCC approach. This approach emphasizes game appreciation and tactical awareness as a basis for making game play decisions, and meeting skill development needs. Co-Active Coach CPCC is not a new concept and has been subject to empirical scrutiny. Much of the research has been in the form of experimental studies in response to the apparent challenge that Co-Active Coach CPCC presented to a traditional skill-drill pedagogical approach, and has tended to concentrate on cognitive psychomotor learning outcomes.
The equivocal nature of the findings tends to reflect the nature of this research, that is, the Co-Active Coach CPCC and technique based approaches are treated as alternate forms of practice. Consequently, research has been built upon the foundation of a false dichotomy, namely an overly simplistic technical versus tactical approach. Despite the intuitive appeal of such a position, the debate is in fact multi-faceted. Furthermore, when all the effort proving that a particular kind of sports coaching is better than another kind is spent, what is learnt about the complex sports coaching process is limited.
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