KIN 407 Midterm

What are the five categories of nonverbal communication? How effective are you at using them when you coach?

Body motion, physical characteristics, touching behavior, voice characteristics, body position.

What are the three coaching styles most coaches adopt?

Command style, submissive style and cooperative style.

What are the six preventive discipline steps?

Create the right team culture, hold team meetings, develop team rules, create team routines, conduct exciting practices, catch them doing good.

What are the basic elements of a practice plan?

Date, time of practice, and length of practice session. Objective of the practice. Equipment needed. Warm-up. Practice of previously taught skills. Teach and practice new skills. Cool-down. Coach's comments. Evaluation of practice.

What are some key characteristics of early adolescents (11-14), middle adolescents (15-17), and late adolescents (18-21) that you should understand as a coach? 3. What can you do to be a culturally responsive coach?

Early adolescence- growth spurt, awkwardness (lack of balance and agility), strength increase, puberty, think more concretely, highly influenced by peers. Middle adolescence- most growth completed, thoughts about sexual body rather than appearance, independence, able to think abstractly, more self-centered. Late adolescence- more secure, more independent, set goals, intimate relationships.

What are the two most important needs of athletes? What do you do as a coach to help athletes fulfill those needs?

Have fun and feel worthy.

List the three steps to teaching character and sportsmanship. How do you encourage sportsmanship among your athletes?

Identify the principles of character, teach the principles of character, provide opportunities to practice moral behavior.

What are the four steps of teaching technical skills? In what ways do you incorporate these steps when you coach?

Introduce the skill; demonstrate and explain; practice; correct errors.

What are the benefits of developing season plans and daily practice plans?

Keep your athletes actively involved, resulting in more learning and enjoyment during practices. Provide challenging and relevant learning situations. Teach skills in the appropriate progression to maximize learning and safety. Pace the learning and conditioning so your athletes are not overloaded or overtrained. Make the best use of available time, space, and equipment. Minimize discipline problems. Increase your confidence in your ability to manage various situations

What can you do to help your athletes improve their attention and concentration

Minimize distractions during practice when athletes are first learning skills, but once they have learned technical skills well introduce game-like distractions so they can practice focusing their attention and maintaining concentration. When your athletes are playing, avoid distracting them with your comments. Save those words of advice for time-outs and practices. Help your athletes identify what to attend to and what to filter out—creating a mindset or expectation of what to look for in various situations. Develop and practice pre-event routines that prepare your athletes to concentrate. Instruct your athletes to analyze their play only during breaks in the action. Otherwise they will not have their attention focused on the action. When athletes analyze their play, encourage them to keep their focus on the situation or their performance, not on the outcome of the contest.

What are some of the shortcomings of the traditional approach?

Overemphasis on technical skills; overemphasis on direct instruction; mindless drills; boredom

What is a philosophy? What two things must you do to develop your coaching philosophy?

Philosophy means the pursuit of wisdom; it helps us answer fundamental questions about what, why, and how. A philosophy consists of (1) major objectives and (2) your beliefs or principles that help you achieve your objectives.

What are the key principles of rewarding effectively?

Reward the performance, not the outcome; reward athletes more for the effort than for winning; reward little things on the way toward reaching larger goals; Reward the learning and performance of life skills as well as sport skills; Reward frequently when athletes are first learning new skills; Once skills are well learned, reinforce them only occasionally; When athletes are first learning, reward them as soon as possible after correct behaviors or their approximations occur; Reward athletes only when they have earned it.

What are the five steps to creating a tactical skill development plan?

Step 1: Identify the important DECISIONS your players need to make as they play the sport. Step 2: Determine what KNOWLEDGE your athletes need to make a good decision regarding the situation. Step 3: Identify the CUES. Step 4: Identify the RULES your athletes should follow to make this tactical decision. Step 5: Find or design at least one PRACTICE contest that gives your athletes the opportunity to work on reading the situation and selecting the appropriate tactic.

What is the difference between technical and tactical skills?

Technical skills means the specific procedures to move one's body to perform the task that needs to be accomplished. Tactical skills are the decisions and actions of players in the game to gain an advantage over the opposing team or players.

What is positive discipline? In what ways do you practice positive discipline, instructing your athletes in sport and life skills, training them by providing opportunities to practice these skills, and correcting their mistakes?

The positive discipline approach views discipline as training that develops self-control.

What is the value of the guided discovery inherent in the games approach?

These methods are better for developing thinking athletes because they involve athletes much more in the learning process and thus enable them to take greater responsibility for their learning; athlete centered

What are the three dimensions of communication? What can you do to develop your listening, nonverbal, and emotional communication skills?

Three dimensions of communicating: Sending and receiving, verbal and nonverbal, and content and emotion.

How can you determine the skills your athletes need to be successful? What are your sources of information?

To be effective, an instruction plan must address each of the six categories of skills discussed later in the chapter: technical, tactical, physical, mental, communication, and character. Sources of information- Textbook, purchase books, videos, clinics, other more experienced coaches, observe.

Which techniques that you teach could be broken down into parts, and which should be taught as a whole? How do you decide?

When the task is low in complexity and high in interdependence, have your athletes practice the whole technique. By contrast, part practice is better when the task is high in complexity and low in interdependence.: more complex break it down, less complex let the athletes perform the task first then you can correct errors and break down if necessary.

What is the Athletes' Character Code?

be respectful, be responsible, be caring, be honest, be fair, and be a good citizen

What eight communication skills do coaches need most?

credibility; positive approach; Sending messages high in information; consistency; listening; nonverbal communication; clear instructions and demonstrations; reinforcement.

What is character education, and why is it important? Do you believe character education is your responsibility as a coach?

educating your athletes about moral behavior so that these behaviors are continually practiced, corrected when flawed, and celebrated when demonstrated.

What are some ways of ensuring that you treat male and female athletes equally?

equal opportunity. do not put guys vs girls.

How do you define leadership ? What is the difference between leadership and management?

leaders give the team direction by having a vision, and they know how to translate this vision into reality. Management consists of planning, organizing, staffing and recruiting, scheduling, budgeting, etc.

methods of tactical teaching

method 1- Teach the Tactics in Whole, Then the Parts. Method 2: Have Athletes Observe Decision Making in Others. Method 3: Have Athletes Observe Themselves. Method 4: Variable Practice. Method 5: Control Feedback. Method 6: Ask Questions.

What can you do to help your athletes experience flow?

optimal arousal: if athletes' abilities are reasonably close to the challenge at hand, they are more likely to experience flow and have fun.

What are the three stages of learning? How can you address these stages when teaching technical skills to your athletes?

three stages of learning—the mental stage, the practice stage, and the automatic stage. Mental stage- must be careful not to teach too much during this mental stage because it is easy to overload their learning circuits. Practice stage- make it gamelike and more about quality than quantity. Automatic stage- might have to revert back to teaching technical or tactical skills again.