Transferring effective teaching methods to coaching enhances performance on the field.
Understanding the link between perception, action, and decision-making improves coaching strategies.
Providing concise feedback and intentional questioning optimizes player performance and skill retention.
Incorporating varied training approaches and constructive feedback supports long-term player development.
Deep dives
Chapter 1: The Power of Understanding the Science Behind Decision-Making
The podcast delves into the science behind decision-making in teaching and coaching. It emphasizes the importance of studying teachers and their effective methods in transferring these practices to coaching. The episode discusses how understanding decision-making as a transferable skill is crucial. It highlights the significance of perception and the link between perception, action, and decision-making, using real-life examples to illustrate these concepts.
Chapter 2: The Implications of Planning and Design on Learning
This chapter explores the impact of planning and design on the learning process. The podcast emphasizes the importance of incorporating psycho-social elements into coaching sessions. It discusses the role of long-term memory in learning and the necessity of spaced practice for effective retention. The chapter highlights the difference between performance and learning, focusing on creating a conducive environment for skills to transfer effectively to match days.
Chapter 3: Maximizing Feedback by Understanding Working Memory and Attention
The episode explores the significance of feedback in coaching, focusing on the limitations of working memory. It emphasizes the importance of providing concise and specific feedback to prevent overload. The podcast discusses the relationship between coaching focus and player performance. It also touches on intentional questioning and the role it plays in guiding players' understanding and decision-making in training scenarios.
Chapter 4: Balancing Player Development through Constructive Feedback
This part of the podcast emphasizes the impact of constructive feedback on player development. It highlights the importance of clarity and specificity in feedback to facilitate player improvement and skill retention. The episode delves into the potential effects of overloading working memory with feedback and the importance of maintaining focus on key coaching points.
Chapter 5: Enhancing Learning Through Effective Training Activities
The chapter discusses the role of training activities in enhancing player learning and skill retention. It emphasizes the benefits of interleaved practice and varied training approaches to foster long-term memory encoding. The podcast explores the challenges of coaching in game situations and the need for intentional repetition and retrieval practice to solidify learning.
Chapter 6: Cultivating a Supportive Learning Environment through Interaction and Coaching Style
The final chapter touches on creating a supportive learning environment through coach-player interaction and coaching styles. It discusses the significance of promoting trust and communication between coaches and players. The episode emphasizes the coach's role in fostering a positive learning atmosphere and facilitating player growth through effective feedback, intentional questioning, and focus on key coaching principles.
The Importance of Asking Intentional Questions
Effective coaching involves asking intentional questions that lead to specific thinking outcomes. By considering what kind of questions to ask and the type of thinking desired from players, coaches can drive productive learning tasks. It is highlighted that just asking questions without a purpose may not be beneficial, and poorly thought-out questions can hinder progress. Coaches are encouraged to focus on asking good questions that support learning tasks and promote beneficial outcomes.
Building a Culture of Error and Growth
Chapter four delves into checking for understanding, emphasizing the difference between teaching and learning. The focus is on spotting gaps in understanding, remedying them, and creating an environment where players are comfortable admitting their lack of comprehension. Anticipating errors and planning for mistakes are highlighted as essential coaching strategies to support long-term player development. The importance of fostering a culture where mistakes are viewed as opportunities for learning and improvement is underscored.
In this episode I’m delighted to have teacher, teaching mentor and bestselling author Doug Lemov back on the show.
Doug studies high performing teachers and what it is they do that makes them so effective in the classroom. Following requests from people in the sports sector, Doug has taken his experiences from the classroom to help coaches optimise their teaching ability. And in his new book “The Coach’s Guide to Teaching” Doug brings his considerable knowledge about the science of classroom teaching to the sports coaching world to create championship calibre coaches on the court and field. What great classroom teachers do is relevant to coaches in profound ways. After all, coaches are at their core teachers.
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