Growing Coaches Programme Guide - Sport New Zealand

PROGRAMME RESOURCES
THE GROWING COACHES
RESOURCES INCLUDE:
. A Programme Guide (for teachers, sports
coordinators and coaches facilitating the
programme)
. A Coach Journal (for young coaches)
. A Coach Gear Bag (full of games and
activities useful for coaching).
THE PROGRAMME GUIDE
This Guide gives coaches, teachers and
facilitators information relating to the structure
of the programme and ideas of how to deliver
a coach education programme for young
people who want to coach. The Guide is also
full of ideas and concepts around coach
styles, roles, qualities, themes and methods.
The content draws a picture of what effective
coaching is. Facilitators need to read the
Programme Guide in order to understand the
programme. Some of the pages of the Guide
can be used as handouts for participants
and others as background learning for the
workshops that are delivered with the young
coaches.
THE COACH JOURNAL
The Coach Journal is for the students – make
sure they get one each to guide their coaching.
The Journal includes activity templates for the
young coaches to explore their coaching and
record their coaching journey. Opportunities
for reflection are also provided, alongside
additional information for young coaches
about planning and delivering great coaching
sessions.
THE COACH GEAR BAG
The Gear Bag includes a myriad of games
and activities for use in coaching sessions.
These games and activities are useful in any
coaching environment as they may be adapted
for a variety of sports. The Gear Bag is full of
warm-up activities, quick-hit activities, games
for developing performance, and session
enhancers. Many of these may be linked to
activities from specific sports and will help
the young person provide innovative coaching
sessions. Many sports organisations have
designed tool kits for their specific sport. It is
worthwhile accessing this information available
from individual sport organisations.
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SPORT
ORGANISATIONS
These organisations are a key resource for
the delivery of coach education in your school.
Contact them through your Regional Sports
Trust or directly. This will allow you to clip
on the specialist sport knowledge that young
coaches will need for coaching their particular
sport.
AND DON’T FORGET…
The Growing Leaders programme is the ‘parent’
programme of Growing Coaches. Some of the
activities and concepts from Growing Leaders
have been integrated into the coaching context
within Growing Coaches. You may find other
activities and ideas from Growing Leaders very
useful. Make sure you browse the Growing
Leaders resources as well as the Growing
Coaches resources on www.sportnz.org.nz.
Where to find resources and documents referred to in this Guide
Growing Coach Resources In this Guide Sport NZ Website Programme CD Purchase from
Sport NZ
Programme Guide PDF PDF
Coach Journal
PDF PDF
Coach Gear Bag
PDF PDF
Workshop Guidelines
Word Word
Workshop PowerPoint
Presentations PPT PPT
(And in Coach Journal) Word Word
Completion of Growing
Coaches (Individual
Record Template)
Coaching Experience
Assessment Tool
(And in Coach Journal) Word Word
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