People, Participation, Progression, Performance in Hockey
The world’s greatest coaches use teaching techniques in their coaching to help players engage, learn, and perform…
Here’s some details some fantastic teaching techniques that all coaches can use Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction
Within this framework are lots of techniques coaches can utilise in every activity in every session, every day they coach
Rosenshine’s 10 principles are:
As you can see, all of these are relevant for coaches. Here’s a select few ideas how to use several of these techniques:
Principle: provide models:
Use a digital platform to show a model related to the instructions I’m giving to players
Principles: questioning & reviews:
How about the question, “For you as an individual, what was important/useful today?”
…also use a review as this helps players retrieve information from the session, driving long term memory
Principles: small steps and scaffolding
Introduce a tactical concept in a no pressure situation…small steps are important, then incorporate the concept into decision-based practices with passive or semi-passive opposition”
Here are some great resources for Rosenshine’s Principles:
A great article from and bit.ly/3HVcAf3
A great book from @teacherhead here: amzn.to/3YvWPST
Thanks to Dan Abrahams for loading this on twitter
