This article was originally published in TheGymPress December 2007 Issue.
Article by Rick McCharles. Edited and formated by Valentin Uzunov.
Abstract
Coaching any sport to a high level is a complex task that requires many years of practice and study to master. Expert coaches like expert chess players develop strategies through hours of practical experience that allows them to foresee the necessary steps or moves they need to make to avoid problems and achieve the desired outcome. Each coach develops his own methods and strategies of coaching that work for them. The ‘understand teach’ model is but one method that can be used by coaches to analyze and construct a coaching methodology to coach any particular skill. The model assumes that the coach has a holistic understanding of the coaching job, and is able to apply that approach to the way he coaches skills. The model was tested by a group of Canadian coaches who found it too complex which lead them to over analysis. However the model has applications in course presenting, skill analysis, research, and also can be used as an coaching strategy. The better the coach understands the material he has to teach the more effective he is a teaching/coaching his athletes. Effective coaching is about always searching for better ways to do things, and this model presents one way.
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