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Unit description
Provides students with knowledge and experience using the ecological dynamics framework to support coaching practice in sport. Students will learn to assess skillful behaviours using individual, integrative, and collective methods along with ways to design representative training environments. Students will also act as a skill acquisition specialist and reconceptualise the role of a coach.
Unit content
- Introduction to skill acquisition
- Skilled behaviour assessments
- Practice design – Part A
- Practice design – Part B
- Contemporary approaches to coaching
- Skill acquisition specialists
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | apply the ecological dynamics approach to skill acquisition |
| 2 | collaboratively and individually appraise current coaching practice using an ecological dynamics approach |
| 3 | design practice environments to develop skillful behaviours |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- apply the ecological dynamics approach to skill acquisition
- collaboratively and individually appraise current coaching practice using an ecological dynamics approach
- design practice environments to develop skillful behaviours
Teaching and assessment
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