Coaching Children (Sports Coach UK)
Lights, Camera, Action! - Coaching Children Videos
Sports Coach UK has produced a series of Coaching Children videos that are available on our YouTube channel sports coach UK TV.
To access the videos please click this link
These clips look at the craft of coaching from a children’s coach perspective and are themed on:
• Why coach children?
• Planning and organising
• Coaching methods
• Observation, analysis and evaluation
• Coaching the whole child
• Creating the learning environment
• Communicating with children
The videos are designed with coaches, parents, clubs, governing body staff, and sport development professionals in mind - and are suitable for any audience.
Coaching Children Curriculum
What is the Coaching Children Curriculum?
Sports Coach UK has published a Coaching Children Curriculum to provide governing bodies of sport with up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the needs of children in, and through, sport.
This knowledge will support the creation of generic and sport-specific training for children’s coaches - leading to a specialist workforce that will help children follow their dreams, have fun and realise their potential through sport.
The Curriculum will evolve and be updated to reflect best practice and new research.
Why has the Curriculum been developed?
The Curriculum was identified as a key priority of the Coaching Children Action Plan 2010-2013.
The Plan was produced to address the participation needs of children.
It was developed by sports coach UK in consultation with partners such as the Youth Sport Trust, the Association for Physical Education, the Child Protection in Sport Unit, Home Country Sports Councils and a wide array of coach developers.