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Title / Plan a beginner level coaching session for sport participants
Level / 3 / Credits / 4
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to: explain and prioritise the objectives of a beginner level coaching session; select session activities to achieve session objectives; and plan equipment, safety, and coaching requirements of each activity for a beginner sport session.
Classification / Recreation and Sport > Recreation and Sport - Coaching and Instruction
Available grade / Achieved
Explanatory notes
1Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) groups participants into the following communities: social adult, competitive adult, high performance, late teenage (17-19), early teenage (13-16), late childhood (9-12), middle childhood (6-8), and early childhood (0-5). These communities are characterised by the physical, social, emotional and cognitive development their participants display.
2Definition
Coachable moments are situations that occur in a drill or performance that the coach can use to demonstrate the tactics being developed. The coach may see a critical incident occur (success or failure) and use a variety of strategies to praise, or further develop or alter a performance.
3Where the terms beginner, intermediate or advanced participant are used they refer to the following communities:
beginner – middle childhood, late childhood, social adult;
intermediate – early teenage, late teenage, competitive adult;
advanced – high performance.
Accordingly, a beginner level coaching session is one which caters to the needs of beginner level participants. Although these definitions exist there are exceptions within many sports environments and as such these definitions should be used as a guide and applied within the context of the sport in which the coach is involved.
4The plan created by the candidate in this unit standard may be used as part of the requirements for assessment against Unit 22768, Conduct and review a beginner level coaching session.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Explain and prioritise the objectives of a beginner level coaching session.
Evidence requirements
1.1Objectives of the coaching session are defined and explained in relation to how they will meet the needs of the participants.
1.2Session objectives are ordered in terms of priority.
Outcome 2
Select session activities to achieve session objectives.
Evidence requirements
2.1Activities are selected in line with session objectives.
Rangeincludes but is not limited to – introduction, warm up, skill teaching, skill practise or application, cool down.
2.2Activities are ordered in line with session priorities and safety considerations.
2.3Time allocated to activities is commensurate with session priorities and safety considerations.
2.4Active participation is maximised by activity set-up.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – small groups to reduce ‘down time’, variety to maintain participant interest, quick transitions between activities, the amount of time required to set up and coach the activity.
Outcome 3
Plan equipment, safety, and coaching requirements of each activity for a beginner sport session.
Evidence requirements
3.1Equipment and assistance needed are identified and checked for availability in accordance with the requirements of the activities.
3.2Requirements for a safe coaching session are described in relation to the planned session.
Rangefirst aid kit, equipment, environment, consideration of participants’ fitness and medical conditions, participants’ clothing and footwear, contingency plans for injury and bad weather, cultural safety, management of competition and participants’ behaviour, supervision ratios.
3.3Coaching requirements for each activity for a sport is documented in plan.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – explanations, demonstrations (including mirror, whole-part-whole, sequencing), feedback that may be used (including positive reinforcement, corrections, prompting, questioning), structured play (what rules will apply to the activity), where the participants will gather for instructions for that activity, coachable moments.
Replacement information / This unit standard and unit standard 22768 replaced unit standard 5361 and unit standard 16788.Planned review date / 31 December 2012
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process / Version / Date / Last Date for AssessmentRegistration / 1 / 19 May 2006 / 31 December 2012
Rollover and Revision / 2 / 20 May 2011 / N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0099
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Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
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Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs). The CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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