Effective Coaching Information

Coach educators and coach education programs have always done a good job of providing new and aspiring coaches the technical knowledge and skills needed to be a good coach. Some programs even go as far as providing coach candidates the opportunity to learn different ways to connect with their athletes. However, these programs fall short when it comes to providing our coaches the same type of training and education that is required for new classroom teachers and provided to our professional educators. We have all heard that good coaching is good teaching, but we are not fully training our coaches to be good teachers until we include the art and science of teaching as part of the coach education curriculum.