In the 4th grade I came across this quote by Benjamin Franklin “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”. That quote has stuck with me to this day because it really made sense to me. With everything I have done it life whether it was house chores, schoolwork, or sports I have tried to apply this so I could learn to my fullest ability. Now as a baseball coach I am trying to apply this to the way I teach players. For example, if I tell a player how to throw a curveball they will forget, if I teach them they may remember, but if involve them they will learn. As a coach that is my biggest goal is to teach players as efficiently as I can and meet my learning objectives. To demonstrate this I will summarize the
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This year baseball practice started in January with some very light practice batting practice and throwing, mostly to get the players used to baseball practice again. For the first 5 weeks the coach staff was only able to work with 2 players in the program at a time. Coach Guthrie and I made a schedule so I could work with pitchers, a position the coaching staff agreed we needed to develop because we graduated all of our top pitchers the year before. At this point in the season we were focusing on building arm strength by implementing a pitching program, it including starting with a flat ground bullpen at 50 feet of 20 pitches at 70 percent, than 60 feet of a mound of 20 pitches at 70 percent, and continuing adding 10 pitches and throwing 10 percent hard each bullpen until the players reached 50 pitches and 100 …show more content…
To get into the education program at Western Oregon you have to 60 hours of volunteer work with the age group you want to teach outside of a classroom setting. Since I want to teach high school social studies volunteering for baseball is the perfect fit. Not only does it fulfill my volunteer requirement but it also has really shown me that becoming a teacher is something I would thoroughly enjoy. Since I want to become a teacher I want to be able to also stay with coaching. Through this volunteer work and course there are lots of outcomes that will positively impact my
This year baseball practice started in January with some very light practice batting practice and throwing, mostly to get the players used to baseball practice again. For the first 5 weeks the coach staff was only able to work with 2 players in the program at a time. Coach Guthrie and I made a schedule so I could work with pitchers, a position the coaching staff agreed we needed to develop because we graduated all of our top pitchers the year before. At this point in the season we were focusing on building arm strength by implementing a pitching program, it including starting with a flat ground bullpen at 50 feet of 20 pitches at 70 percent, than 60 feet of a mound of 20 pitches at 70 percent, and continuing adding 10 pitches and throwing 10 percent hard each bullpen until the players reached 50 pitches and 100 …show more content…
To get into the education program at Western Oregon you have to 60 hours of volunteer work with the age group you want to teach outside of a classroom setting. Since I want to teach high school social studies volunteering for baseball is the perfect fit. Not only does it fulfill my volunteer requirement but it also has really shown me that becoming a teacher is something I would thoroughly enjoy. Since I want to become a teacher I want to be able to also stay with coaching. Through this volunteer work and course there are lots of outcomes that will positively impact my