The Idiot's Guide to Coaching
“There was an old women who lived in a shoe, she had so many children she didn’t know what to do…” Sympathy for this, fictional, women is easily given. The reason is because I sometimes feel the same way as she did when I am coaching the rambunctious fifth grade basketball players of Rockwell Elementary School. Although it is only my first year coaching I have quickly acquired a methodology for coaching which has severed quite well. I feel it is important to know how to appropriately deal with children without scaring the emotionally, hence the systematic method of coaching a group of fifth graders was devised. Also, I hope this method, or process, take the children, who won only one game last year, to a more prosperous season. There are three major steps necessary to accomplish this process. If practice is structured, rewards or punishments are given, and a relaxed environment is maintained any group of young children can be coached. The first step in this task of coaching children is that a well organize plan must be made. In making this plan many factors must be taken into consideration. The first of these is that the plan must be stuck to at all cost. Times for each drill must be assigned. I caution, however, that ch
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Approximate Word count = 1024
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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