Oct 4 - Teaching Basketball
Teaching
Effective teaching has 3 distinct phases:
• Presentation
• Application
• Feedback
Independent Learning:
• To carefully consider each player’s individual development characteristics
when presenting material to athletes – use task cards, videotapes, and charts
• Using videotapes to analyze a single skill, cover skills appropriate to player’s
ability, feature competent demonstrators, are of good quality, highlight
points to look for, have founter numbers so that players can easily locate
specific segements of the tape, contain an appropriate soundtrack
Application Phase
Drills
• Should provide ooportunies for plenty of perfect practice
• Players must learn how to perform a drill before they can focus on the tasks
in a drill
• Drills must correspond with players abilities, interests, and experience
• Drills must be purposeful to encourage players to keep working on a
particular task
• Drill must be progressive so that skills are ordered correctly
• Drills must be paced – long enough for skills to improve but not so long that
players are bored
• Drill must be participatory – that is, all players must be actively involved in
the drill
• Drills should be part of a progression that leads to game-like drills
• A typical drill should last 5-15 minutes Case Studies
• Involve all players
• Facilitate the discussion of the case under study
• Base the case on realistic situations
Feedback
• Simple verbal confirmation of correctness (ex. Nice shot Joe)
• Positive feedback with specific info (ex. Nice shot Joe. The ball was placed
perfectly on the backboard)
• Positive, non-verbal feedback (smile, thumbs up etc)
• Sandwich feedback (thats good. Your elbow is out but you’re really
improving) use a ratio of 80:20 of potive to negative feedback
• Use of preset standards (ex. Making 8 of 10 layups)
• Handouts containing correct or suggested response. Keep such material short
and relevant
Wootens 6 coaching challenges
1.) All your success is dependent on the ability of other people
2.) Coaches are evaluated by everyone
3.) Everyone feels they have knowledge about coaching sports
4.) The highs are incredibly high and the lows are amazingly low
5.) The coach has a personal relationship with every player and has a dramatic
impact on every player’s life
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