Appropriately and adequately equipped lecture room.
Appropriately and adequately equipped learning resource facility.
Various media such as books, journals, publications, computer-based resources and videos to provide current information and research findings. Internet access to research findings.
Audio-visual equipment.
Appropriate sports facilities.

You will need to attend all scheduled practical sessions and participate as a coach throughout.
The long-term planning and development of individual sessions, working with a team or an individual, will demand additional commitment of time. You will need to observe a range of experienced higher level coaches, in a number of disciplines (team sports, indoor/outdoor, individual sports/activities) and understand the ethics and etiquette of these disciplines. You will need to be organised in order to be effective - personal discipline and time-management skills will be essential. You will need to watch high-level team and individual performance and read widely around the subject.

THESE LEARNING STRATEGIES WILL OCCUPY YOUR TIME:
45 Hours Contact:-
20 x 1.5 hours tutor-led lecture/coaching programme.
10 x 1.5 hours tutor-led and/or student-led coaching, workshop, and assessment programme.

105 Hours student-led guided independent study:-
45 hours research/reading
60 hours module file completion

Crispfield, P/Houlston, D and Simpkin, A - Coaching Sessions: Your Guide to Planning and Goal Setting (Coachwise Ltd, 1996)
Hippolyte, R et al - Strategies of Team Management Through Volleyball. (Epidote 1993)
Martens, R - Successful Coaching (Human Kinetics, 1996)

Additional reading will be given throughout the module

Additions
Cox, R. (2002). Sport Psychology. Concepts and Applications, 5th Edition. New York. McGraw-Hill.
Crisfield P (ed) (1999) The successful coach: guidelines for coaching practice. The National Coaching Foundation
Cross N and Lyle J. (eds) (1999) The coaching process: principals and practice for sport.: Butterworth-Heinemann Oxford
Hardy, L., Jones, G. and Gould, D. (1996). Understanding Psychological Preparation for Sport. Theory and Practice of Elite Performers. Chichester. Wiley.
Hughes and Franks (2004) - Notational Analysis of Sport: Systems for better coaching and performance - Routledge
Hughes and Franks (2007) The Essentials of Performance Analysis: An Introduction - Routledge
Kormelink and Seeverens (2003) Match analysis and game preparation - Reedswain Inc
Lyle J. (2002) Sports coaching concepts: a framework for coaches' behaviour. Routledge, London :
Nideffer, R.M. (2001). Assessment in Sport Psychology. Morgantown. Fitness Information Technology.
Smith N (1997) Sports Analysis in coaching
Whitaker D (1999) The spirit of teams. Crowood Press Marlborough
Williams C and James D (2001) Science for exercise and sport. Routledge
Williams Jean M (2006) Applied Sport Psychology - Personal Growth to Peak Performance. McGraw-Hill

Module file (portfolio) which will contain written and video evidence of performance, evaluation and analysis
(2500 words)
Assesses learning outcomes 1 - 3

Formative feedback
As this unit requires the student to work closely with both the tutor and (peer) performers throughout, there will be a continuous process of giving and receiving feedback, particularly during and after practical sessions and workshops. In addition, the student is required to present a module file for assessment. Formative feedback will be provided by the tutor via a series of interim reviews of the module file approximately every 6 weeks.

Philosophy of coaching, coach-performer relationships, coaching style, contemporary issues in sport, external pressures, additional requirements of the athlete (eg psychological profiling)
Video and computer analysis of motion, technique, tactics, manual recording, statistical evidence, models of analysis, performance and training parameters
Coaching implications: communication, designing practice, implementing change, performance profiling