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Festival of Learning- Alison Croad
This presentation will outline the process adopted for practical seminars on a level 5 module in the Sports Leadership, Education & Society (SLES) community.
Previous runs of the module had suffered with a drop off in student numbers as the semester progressed. This meant students were missing out on vital opportunities to practice their coaching techniques and implement the theoretical frameworks taught in the module.
The focus of the module is to develop coaches to think innovatively about their delivery and to understand the way that participants learn. The impact is to support coaches to use innovative coaching approaches to develop better participant decision makers.
To encourage engagement the module was designed to ensure coaches deliver every other week; thus, ensuring regular contact, engagement and progression of their practice. They received peer feedback, tutor feedback and had to self-reflect after each session.
The information gathered from their multiple sources of feedback then informed the topic of their presentation, assessment 002, and using the feedback to feed forward to show how they could innovate their practice further.
This intervention has been extremely successful with ensuring continued engagement as well as seeing significant improvements with the delivery of coaching sessions.