Discuss how you would coach fundamental movement skills to primary school children.
In this assignment I am going to talk about how I would coach fundamental movement skills to primary school children. Fundamental motor skills are common motor activities with specific observable patterns. Most skills used in sports and movement activities are advanced versions of fundamental motor skills. (State of VictoriaDepartment of Education, Victoria, 1996) Fundamental movement skills (FMS) are basic observable patterns of movement (Dep to Education Victoria, Gallahue & Ozmun, 2006)consisting of running, hopping, skipping (locomotor), balancing, twisting, dodging (stability), throwing, catching and kicking (object control) (Department of Education …show more content…
All the decisions are made by the coach in the command style of coaching, when the coach makes a command the athlete’s role is too respond. Here we see how the role of the coach is to give order and the role of the athlete is to listen and comply. ( Rainer Martens 2004) The submissive style of coaching is where coaches try make as little decisions as possible. The coach provides very little guidance, lacks organisation and instruction, Submissive coaches do not really show interest, they do not have the knowledge of coaching and they are merely a babysitter. The last style of coaching is the co-operative style, these coaches share decision making with their players. They understand that as a coach they have to provide guidance and leadership but at the same time have to let young people make decisions. It can be hard to find the balance between letting the athletes make decisions and the coach. (Rainer Martens …show more content…
When coaching they must be aware of the impact their actions and properties have on the children they coach, it is necessary to realise that coaching is also and educational activity and kids are influenced by the people around them, not just encouraging competitive success but, inevitably with the effect of developing values in athletes ( Martin Lee 1993) When coaching there should be 100% participation all of the time, it is in class when they are practicing that the kids fundamental movement skills will improve, if everyone is participating all of the time they will have a better chance of improving. Evidence over the past decade suggests that it takes approximately 10 hours of instruction for most children aged 3 to 10 years old to master one FMS (Booth et al., 1999). When teaching it would be best to circulate around the children to make sure you can see all of them and give correct teaching points rather than standing in the one position the whole time. When giving demonstrations to the children they should focus exactly on what you want the children to do it can be improved by using phrases or buzz words to highlight the important part of the demonstration ( Department of Education, Victoria 1996) The time between doing a demonstration and letting the child practice should be kept short, the student should begin practice straight
In this assignment I am going to talk about how I would coach fundamental movement skills to primary school children. Fundamental motor skills are common motor activities with specific observable patterns. Most skills used in sports and movement activities are advanced versions of fundamental motor skills. (State of VictoriaDepartment of Education, Victoria, 1996) Fundamental movement skills (FMS) are basic observable patterns of movement (Dep to Education Victoria, Gallahue & Ozmun, 2006)consisting of running, hopping, skipping (locomotor), balancing, twisting, dodging (stability), throwing, catching and kicking (object control) (Department of Education …show more content…
All the decisions are made by the coach in the command style of coaching, when the coach makes a command the athlete’s role is too respond. Here we see how the role of the coach is to give order and the role of the athlete is to listen and comply. ( Rainer Martens 2004) The submissive style of coaching is where coaches try make as little decisions as possible. The coach provides very little guidance, lacks organisation and instruction, Submissive coaches do not really show interest, they do not have the knowledge of coaching and they are merely a babysitter. The last style of coaching is the co-operative style, these coaches share decision making with their players. They understand that as a coach they have to provide guidance and leadership but at the same time have to let young people make decisions. It can be hard to find the balance between letting the athletes make decisions and the coach. (Rainer Martens …show more content…
When coaching they must be aware of the impact their actions and properties have on the children they coach, it is necessary to realise that coaching is also and educational activity and kids are influenced by the people around them, not just encouraging competitive success but, inevitably with the effect of developing values in athletes ( Martin Lee 1993) When coaching there should be 100% participation all of the time, it is in class when they are practicing that the kids fundamental movement skills will improve, if everyone is participating all of the time they will have a better chance of improving. Evidence over the past decade suggests that it takes approximately 10 hours of instruction for most children aged 3 to 10 years old to master one FMS (Booth et al., 1999). When teaching it would be best to circulate around the children to make sure you can see all of them and give correct teaching points rather than standing in the one position the whole time. When giving demonstrations to the children they should focus exactly on what you want the children to do it can be improved by using phrases or buzz words to highlight the important part of the demonstration ( Department of Education, Victoria 1996) The time between doing a demonstration and letting the child practice should be kept short, the student should begin practice straight