OCT 13-16, 2016, Calgary
Hideo Mizoguchi, Frank Sahlein, David Kenwright, Alex Bard, Linda Thorberg, Kate Richardson, Chris Shaw and many more.
Category: coach education
Nick Ruddock in Australia
A series of coaching events Down Under went well.
Gymnastics Ontario Congress 2016
August 26-27
Topics ranged from up to date drills and progressions, to athlete, coach, (and parent!) psychology, to enhancing your pre-school and rec programs and so much more. …
The evolution of our sport is constant… A good coach never stops learning!
Click PLAY or watch some highlights on YouTube.
Gymnastics Ontario Congress a success
All good. That’s the conclusion I heard from all the clinicians, coaches and organizers I spoke with.
Click PLAY or catch a glimpse on Facebook.
Sunday, however, will be another busy day in Milton, Ontario. A training camp is scheduled with some Congress clinicians instruction. Simultaneously the annual Ontario Coach Education meetings are on at the same venue.
Gymnastics Ontario Coaching Congress
how people learn
Some notes I took from a publication called Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn by John Hattie and Gregory C. R. Yates.
• “Unless the material is strongly meaningful, relevant and timely, it is subject to rapid and substantial forgetting.”
• “Distributed practice is more effective than massed practice or cramming.”
• “It is far easier to build on coherently organised existing knowledge than it is to learn new material … When your prior knowledge is based upon misconception, however, it will create an obstacle, an effect called interference.”
• “Strong learning occurs when words and images are combined.”
• “When the mind actively does something with the stimulus, it becomes memorable.”
• “beginners benefit from clear step-by-step instructions and an absence of problem-solving tasks. On the other hand, highly knowledge- able learners may benefit from working on problems to solve and are held back by step-by-step instructions.”
I was most surprised to read this:
• “the VAK model. This model says that human beings, as individuals, naturally fit into one of three categories, associated with the input sensory systems that we use to process information: visual learners (V), auditory learners (A), and kinaesthetic learners (K) (or VAK, for short). It is said that most of us are visual learners and will benefit from instruction which features visual elements, imagery, or spatial relationships, at least when shown in visual form. Auditory learners benefit from hearing words and learn effectively through language and building vocabulary. Kinaesthetic learners learn from movement, from action, from doing things with their hands, and tactile resources in general. …
… we reach a clear conclusion: that there is not any recognised evidence suggesting that knowing or diagnosing learning styles will help you to teach your students any better than not knowing their learning style.”
You can read that article here. Consider how those findings affect your coaching, teaching and planning.
SOLO taxonomy
Have you heard of the SOLO taxonomy?
… the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome, is a means of classifying learning outcomes in terms of their complexity, enabling us to assess students’ work in terms of its quality …
Examples:
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Have you heard of Bloom’s taxonomy?
Here’s one version of the cognitive domain (knowledge) component.
Unsurprisingly, educators debate how accurately these steps actually model the ways we learn.
Here’s a much simplified variation I’ve often used. 🙂
Canadian Comp 2 coaching course
Following our June Comp 1 coaching course at Phoenix Gymnastics Vancouver, next day we immediately began a 4-day Comp 2 course. (The second Comp 2 to be offered in Canada, so far.)
A special thanks to Jeff Thompson and Gymnastics B.C. for making this happen. 🙂
Based on feedback from this fine group of coaches and clinicians, the final version might be launched as early as September 2016.
Gymnastics Canada needs clinicians for the Comp 2 coaching course. A clinicians training course is tentatively being offered Aug 31, Sept 1 & 2nd in Toronto. Any coach in Canada can apply through your Provincial Sports Governing Body.
Here’s an overview of the new Canadian Coach Education structure.
Gymneo – Yurchenko training
The subscription service Gymneo most recently posted:
Yurchenko part 1 (68min)
Yurchenko part 2 (53min)
I watched both straight through to compare with how we’re introducing that Vault in the Canadian Coach Education program.
The vault is very similar to double layout on Floor.
I was interested in two different hurdle actions compared. As always, the Gymneo graphics are excellent.
Click PLAY or watch a teaser on Facebook.
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