Sports Coach UK Courses

How to Coach Disabled People in Sport

This workshop tackles questions that are frequently asked by sports teachers, coaches and participants about how to work with disabled sports people. This includes a whole spectrum of new ideas for inclusion, the workshop will introduce and offer guidance to any coach involved with disabled people in sport, the emphasis being to introduce coaches to the Inclusion Spectrum and effective practice. At the end of the workshop, coaches will be able to:

• Determine how to include disabled people in sport
• select appropriate coaching activities
• Create effective coaching environments
  
  Course: How to Coach Disabled People in Sport - join the waiting list.

Develop Your Coaching Workshops

Analyse your Coaching

Discover methods of analysing your own coaching performance and identify areas for development. Learn how to develop and implement an action plan to enhance your coaching. This workshop will help you, the coach to:

• Analyse your own performance against a checklist to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
• Recognise the different behaviours you exhibit in your coaching
• Devise and implement an action plan to change aspects of your own coaching behaviour where required
• Monitor any improvements in your coaching practice
  
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Coaching Children and Young People

Discover the needs and motivation of young players. Learn how to deliver effective coaching sessions to meet the level of skill, developmental stage and motivation of each young player. This workshop will help you, the coach to:

• Explain why children and young players take part in sport
• Identify why children and young people are a special case
• Plan and deliver coaching sessions to maximise learning and enjoyment
• Match your own coaching to meet the developmental stages of children and young people
• Follow good practice when coaching children and young people
  
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Coaching Disabled Performers

Develop your own coaching knowledge and skills to coach disabled players through inclusive and separate coaching sessions. Discover new ways to adapt equipment and identify appropriate safety and medical considerations to meet your players' needs. This workshop will help you, the coach to:

• explain when integration and segregation might be most appropriate
• Identify appropriate safety and medical considerations
• Review and extend your knowledge of how to adapt your coaching to the specific needs of disabled performers
• Design and monitor a programme for a disabled player taking part in their sport
• Direct players to appropriate structures for competition and further coaching
  
  Course: Coaching Disabled Performers - join the waiting list.

Equity in your Coaching

Everyone should have access to sport, regardless of gender, age, race, ability, faith or sexual orientation. As a coach, you have an important role to play in ensuring this happens. The workshop will help you to apply and extend your existing skills to meet the needs of present and potential participants. This workshop will help you, the coach to:

• Explain what equity means and why it is important
• Identify barriers to participation
• Use appropriate language and terminology
• Identify and challenge inequitable behaviour
• Interpret the legal framework that affects coaching
• Identify how they can become more equitable
• Establish where to go for further information
  
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