Theory & Methods of Coaching Final Exam Questions And Answers

Key components of philosophy - ANS 1. Be yourself 2. Define your coaching objectives 3. Establish rules 4. Build and nurture relationships with athletes 5. Be organized 6. Involve your assistant coaches 7. Help athletes manage their stress 8. Focus on the big picture 6 methods to decision-making skills - ANS 1. Teach the tactics in whole, then the parts 2. Have athletes observe decision-making in others 3. Have athletes watch themselves 4. Variable practice 5. Control feedback 6. Ask questions 6 steps to planning - ANS 1. Identify the skills your athletes need 2. Know your athletes 3. Analyze your situation 4. Establish priorities 5. Select the methods for teaching 6. Plan practices 5 training principles - ANS 1. Specificity 2. Overload/progression 3. Individuality 4. Reversibility 5. Variation/periodization Managing your team - ANS 1. Policy manager 2. Information manager 3. Personnel manager 4. Instructional manager 5. Event/contest manager 6. Logistics manager 7. Financial manager 3 coaching objectives - ANS 1. To have a winning team 2. To have fun 3. To help young people develop physically, psychologically, and socially 3 coaching styles - ANS 1. Command style - the dictator - Bobby Knight 2. Submissive style - the baby-sitter 3. Cooperative style - the teacher - Phil Jackson 3 qualities of successful coaching - ANS 1. Knowledge of sport 2. Motivation 3. Empathy 3 steps to character - ANS 1. Identify the principles of character 2. Teach the principles of character 3. Provide opportunities to practice moral behavior 3 dimensions of communication - ANS 1. Sending and receiving messages 2. Verbal and nonverbal 3. Content and emotion 8 communication skills to avoid - ANS 1. Coach Incredible - does nothing wrong 2. Coach Nay-sayer - pessimist and negative 3. The Judge - evaluates athletes instead of teaching them 4. Coach Fickle - inconsistent and hypocritical 5. Coach Glib - talks too much 6. Coach Stone - shows no emotion 7. The Professor - talks over athletes' heads 8. Coach Skinner - does everything wrong Extrinsic motivation - ANS External - provided to athletes by others through recognition and trophies Intrinsic motivation - ANS Internal - internally satisfying when athletes participate in sport Need to have fun - ANS 1. Fun 2. Optimal activation 3. The flow experience 4. Creating conditions for optimal flow experience 5. Other sources of fun Need to feel worthy - ANS 1. How winners think - take credit for success and responsibility for failure 2. How losers think - attribute failure to lack of ability and success to incompetent opponents Motivation to anxiety - ANS 1. Activation-performance relationship - uncertainty about demands and focus on goals not winning 2. Coaching yourself - identify sources of stress, perceptions, moral coaching philosophy, and professional assistance Technical skills - ANS Specific procedures to move one's body to perform the task that needs to be accomplished Tactical skills - ANS Decisions and actions of players in the contest to gain an advantage over the opposing team (game sense) 3 approaches to coaching - ANS 1. Traditional approach - technical tactical 2. Holistic approach - tactical awareness and learn how to play the game through experience 3. Games approach - shaping play, focusing play, and enhancing play Mental blueprints - ANS Through repeated practice of task (simple techniques) Motor programs - ANS Complex set of rules that allows athletes to produce a movement 3 stages of learning - ANS 1. Mental stage 2. Practice stage 3. Automatic stage 4 steps to teach technical skills - ANS 1. Introduce the technical skill 2. Demonstrate and explain the technical skill 3. Have the athlete practice the technical skill 4. Correct errors Interpersonal skills - ANS Knowing and trusting yourself and others Listening - ANS 1. Demonstrates respect 2. Builds relationships 3. Increases knowledge 4. Builds loyalty 5 styles of managing - ANS 1. Turtles - relationship low/goals low 2. Sharks - relationship low/goals high 3. Teddy bears - relationship high/goals low 4. Foxes - moderate concern for both 5. Owls - strong concern for both 5 steps to confrontation - ANS 1. Reach agreement on what the conflict is about 2. Communicate your cooperative intentions 3. Take the other person's perspective about the problem 4. Motivate the other person to resolve the problem 5. Reach agreement Special relationships - ANS 1. Fellow coaches (assistant coaches) 2. Relationship with head coach 3. Relationship with coaches of other teams 4. Administrators 5. Medical personnel 6. Officials 7. Parents