Coaching Children and Young People

1. Coaching Children and Young People sports coach UK Develop Your CoachingWorkshop

2. Workshop outcomes By the end of the workshop, coaches should be able to: • establish safe and effective coaching environments to meet the needs of children and young people • describe the LTAD model • identify the critical periods of trainability within the LTAD model • describe the acquisition of skills as children develop • modify coaching to meet the needs of children and young people OHT 1 Coaching Children and Young People

3. Information required • Social/psychological factors • motivation, needs, ambitions, attitudes, behaviour • Physical factors • ability, fitness, stage of physical development • Skill factors • stage of motor development, information processing OHT 2 Coaching Children and Young People

4. Principles of coaching children and young people • Make it fun • Avoid specialising too early • Put performer first OHT 3 Coaching Children and Young People

5. Principles of LTAD • Athlete-centred • Promote long-term participation • Maximise full potential OHT 4 Coaching Children and Young People

6. LTAD modelStage 1: FUNdamentals OHT 5 Coaching Children and Young People

7. LTAD modelStage 2: Learning to Train OHT 6

8. LTAD modelStage 3: Training to Train OHT 7

9. Acknowledges different development rates Development of individual programmes Uses critical periods of trainability Summary of LTAD OHT 8 Coaching Children and Young People

10. Developing skill Recognising: • ability to process information • reaction time (neural development) • body control • coordination OHT 9 Coaching Children and Young People

11. Stages of learning OHT 10 Coaching Children and Young People

12. Physical literacy • ABCs: • Agility, balance, coordination, speed • RJT: • Run, jump, throw • KGBs: • Kinesthesia, gliding, buoyancy, striking • CPKs: • Catching, passing, kicking, striking OHT 11 Coaching Children and Young People