Sports courses workshops information
The Club Development Officer can organise club/ coach development courses privately for your club and can advise on forth coming courses in and around Walsall.
The following workshops are a selection of those available from Sports Coach UK:
- How to Coach Children in Sport
- How to Coach Disabled People in Sport
- Coaching Disabled Performers
- Equity in your Coaching
- Good Practice and Child Protection
- An Introduction to Long Term Athlete Development
- The FUNdamentals of Movement Workshop
- F.A. Courses and Workshops for Football Clubs
- Sports coach UK guides (link to external site)
How to Coach Children in Sport
By the end of this workshop coaches should be able to:
- Explain the development of children within sport
- Identify the differences between children and adults
- Develop safe and effective coaching sessions for children
Aimed at everyone working with children in sport, this workshop presents the basic principles of good practice and introduces the concept of long-term athlete development.
How to Coach Disabled People in Sport
By the end of this workshop coaches should be able to:
- Explain the development of children within sport
- Identify the differences between children and adults
- Develop safe and effective coaching sessions for children
Aimed at everyone working with children in sport, this workshop presents the basic principles of good practice and introduces the concept of long-term athlete development.
Coaching Disabled Performers
By the end of this workshop coaches should be able 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
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.
Equity in your Coaching
By the end of this workshop coaches should be able to:
- Explain what sports 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
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.
Good Practice and Child Protection
By the end of this workshop coaches should be able to:
- Identify coaching practice and sport situations that might constitute poor practice and/or abuse
- Recognise key principles of code of conduct and their application to good coaching practice
- Recognise truths and myths surrounding child abuse
- Identify ways of dealing with their own feelings about child abuse
- Describe what constitutes abuse and identify the indicators
- Recognise signs and symptoms
- Identify appropriate action if a child discloses he/she has been abused
- Identify appropriate action if concerned about the behaviour of another coach or colleague
- Identify appropriate action if concerned about the behaviour of a parent/carer (ie outside of the sports arena)
- Review practice that reduces the likelihood of wrongful allegations and of abuse occurring
Protect yourself, the young people you are coaching and your employer by understanding and following good coaching practice. Learn about child abuse and how to handle situations if you have concerns.
An Introduction to Long Term Athlete Development
By the end of this workshop you should be able to:
- Understand the key concepts of LTAD and what it means to you as a coach in your practice.
The FUNdamentals of Movement Workshop
3 Hours – Practical based
This practical workshop explores the concepts of Agility, Balance, Co-ordination and speed. It compliments other coach education resources which may focus on the movement skills of running, hopping, skipping etc. This workshop assists coaches to observe, analyse and coach good movement patterns within their sessions whether multi skill or sport specific.
By the end of this workshop session coaches will be familiar with the fundamental concepts related to agility, balance, co-ordination and speed (the ABC’s).
- Agility - dynamic stability, starting and stopping, momentum, acceleration, rhythm
- Balance - establishing a stable core, static stability, exploring centre gravity and base of support
- Coordination - related to disassociating body parts and the coordination of explosive actions including jumping, throwing, striking and kicking.
A pre-requisite for this workshop is that coaches should have an understanding of the Long Term Athlete Development Model and associated player pathway within their sport.
F.A. Courses and Workshops for Football Clubs.
Clubs affiliated to the Football Association (F.A.) will need to attend F.A. recognised courses and workshops. The following courses are available:
- Child Protection and Best Practice
- Effective Football Club Administration
- FA Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Disabled Footballer
- F.A. Emergency First Aid Workshop
Child Protection and Best Practice
For all coaches, medics and referees in football where youngsters are involved, including where Under 18s are playing adult football. For those involved with Charter Standard or taking coaching, medical and refereeing qualifications, Child protection and best practice is mandatory.
Pre-requisites:
Ideally applicants are 18 years of age or over. The workshop requires some emotional maturity to deal with content, as well as some experience in leadership roles in order to apply a context for dealing with child welfare issues.
Course Content:
- Making football safe
- Why football needs to tackle the issue
- The work of The FA in changing attitudes, promoting best practice and protection young people
- Best Practice
- What is meant by best practice and where you may wish to make changes in what you do?
- Signs, symptoms and forms of abuse and poor practice
- How to recognise the signs, symptoms and forms of abuse
- Behaviour in football that gives cause for concern
- Attitudes and feelings in relation to concerns about poor practice and abuse
- Taking action
- What to do if you are concerned about the welfare of a child or young person
- The FA/NSPCC Helpline
- How to respond if a child discloses that he or she has been abused or if they are concerned about someone’s behaviour
- What Next
- Why children find it hard to tell
- Who can help?
- How to find out more
Effective Football Club Administration.
The Effective Football Club Administration programme (EFCA), set up by the FA and Sport England, aims to develop administration at grassroots football clubs.
What is EFCA?
It is a programme of seven workshops for club administrators aimed at increasing the effectiveness of club officials within grassroots football. In essence, it is a guide on how to run your club.
Benefits
- Recognises the strategic role of administrators
- Improves essential knowledge and skills
- Increases club efficiency
- Initiates the sharing of ideas and good practice
- Enhances full-time employment prospects
- Encourages officials from varying backgrounds to meet
EFCA Courses are run in conjunction with County FAs. Please contact your local County FA for details of courses in your area.
Workshop Details
Workshop 1
Volunteer Management
- Bringing the FA Football Workforce Resource to life
- Recruitment and Retention
- Roles of Volunteers
- Rewarding Volunteers
Workshop 2
Marketing & Sponsorship - for club officials with responsibility in these areas
- How to devise an outline marketing plan appropriate to the clubs needs
- Ways of publicising the football club
- Production of a press release
- Funding and fund-raising opportunities
- Preparation of a sponsorship proposal
Workshop 3
Running a Club - for local secretaries
- Defines the roles and qualities of the Club Secretary
- Describes the ways in which the secretary can work smarter not harder
- Outlines the club's obligations to it's League and County FA
- Describes ways in which volunteers can be recruited and retained
Workshop 4
Club Finances - for club treasurers
- Describes the role of the Club Treasurer
- Identifies simple rules in looking after money
- Financial requirements for Clubs
- Lists possible sources of funding
FA Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Disabled Footballer
Any coach who is 16 years of age or over and has successfully passed the FA Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Football
Course Content:
The Coaching Disabled Footballers course is designed to give football coaches and teacher’s ideas and practices for the inclusion of disabled players in football sessions within mainstream or impairment specific sessions. The course is six hours and covers both theory and practical elements, by the end of the workshop each participant should be able to met the following outcomes:
- Apply & extend your existing coaching skills and experience to meet the needs of players with a range of impairments
- Use appropriate terminology
- Explain the benefits and problems of integrated and segregated sessions for different disability groups
- Establish basic communication skills for coaching disabled footballers
- Identify appropriate safety and medical considerations
- Explain appropriate structures for competition (including rule adaptations and classification systems)
- Plan a wide range of coaching sessions for disabled footballers
- Using the Inclusion Spectrum, plan your coaching sessions to include disabled players or provide alternative appropriate opportunities
- Understand the player pathways available for disabled players including the appropriate structure for competition
Assessment:
There is no assessment for this course. All candidates will receive a certificate of attendance
F.A. Emergency First Aid Workshop
The Emergency Aid Course detailed below meets the specific requirements of the FA.
Emergency First Aid Workshop
Course Objective
- Preserve Life
- Limit Effects
- Promote Recovery
Course Syllabus
- Approach to an incident (danger, help, bystanders)
- Assessment of priorities (ABC)
- Checking responsiveness - shake and shout
- Opening the airway - chin lift/head tilt
- Checking breathing - look/listen/feel
- Checking the pulse (carotid)
- Recovery position (for breathing casualty)
- Breathing for the casualty (mouth to mouth)
- Chest Compressions
- Combined heart-lung resuscitation
- Control of bleeding (press and raise)
- Dressing of wounds
- Minimising shock
- Choking
- Heart Attacks
Certification:
Certificates are processed on the basis of attendance.
Sports Coach UK Guides
For further information, please visit www.sportscoachuk.org