Reference no: EM133760624

Problem: Coaching Skill Project

Collect video examples of practice activities to develop a specific sport skill

Choose a specific skill that you are interested in exploring for this project. It could be single-leg takedowns in wrestling, serving in tennis, the front crawl stroke in swimming, block starts in sprinting, the jump shot in basketball.

Choose a skill that can be practiced in some degree of isolation or with its own focus during a practice. For instance, if you're a basketball coach, you would want to focus on a more individualized and isolated skill like jump shots rather than a team/tactical aspect like running a zone defense. For the purposes of this project, it is more manageable this way.

Start collecting examples of the methods that coaches typically use to develop this skill. You can include the methods that you use, and you could include methods that other coaches use commonly in the sport. Find video examples of each method. This can be video you create yourself during one of your practices; it can also be "found" video from websites and video sites for coaches in your sport (just be sure to give attribution for where you found the video).

Ideally you will collect between 4-7 different options for developing this skill. For each video, classify the type of skill development method being used using the following criteria:

Implied theory of skill acquisition. Keep in mind that this may not be very clear. The person producing the video might not even be aware that there are theories of skill acquisition. Nonetheless, they have some implicit ideas or assumptions about how skill is acquired.

Types of instruction being used: explicit instruction, questioning, analogy-based instruction, or does it use almost no instruction and is instead guided by differential learning, implicit learning (game-based instruction), constraints-led approaches?.

Produce video

I. Choose three different videos for developing the skill from your list. These should be the three most-divergent examples, showing us a range of options to develop the skill based on the different constraints you might be presented with by different athletes or different game situations.

II. Produce a video where you give us a brief 1-minute introduction to the skill and where it fits in the sport you coach (or currently play). This will help me understand the skill and where it fits in the game. Then, present each of your three skill development options and with a voiceover, explain to us what is happening in the video. Explain the implied theory of skill acquisition and the specific sport pedagogies being employed. Each snippet should be no more than 1 minute.