Rational
Planning
Rational
planning would require the coach to consider 4 basic questions:
- Goals
–What do I want players to know, do, or experience during the session?
- Activity
– What should my players and myself do, so that the goals are achieved?
- Organization
– How should the activity be organized?
- Evaluation
– How do I know that players have learnt or achieved what they want to achieve?
Importance
Consideration for Rational Planning
Answers
to the questions would also be influenced by a number of importance factors.
These factors are to be considered when a coach makes his or her planning. The
factors are:
- Safety - Planning
must take safety of players into consideration. Remember to analyze venue,
equipment, buildings, etc. from the point of injury to players.
- Players - Players’
levels of skill, attitude, motivation and fitness t important factors to be
considered when doing a planning. The reasons for players to come for the training
should also be taken into consideration. Your planning should be players’
oriented.
- Availability
of Equipment - Equipment
and facilities are important to successful training. Make sure that your
planning suit to the equipment and facilities available.
- Allocation
of Time - Most
coaches fail in their coaching because of the time factor. They have so much to
train and yet so little time is available. Calculate and plan the time that you
have and be sure that you give priority to something more important to achieve
goal and objective of the session.
- The
Syllabus or Season’s Plan - Whatever
you plan for the session should tally with your season’s planning. Your
planning session should be part of the whole training program.
Time
Management
Effective
time management means that a major portion of the coaching session is given to
achieving goal and objectives of the lesion, i.e. player’s learning, practicing
and playing the sport. Poor time management means that too much time is give
to:
- Waiting
for something to happen
- Giving
information about organization and other areas not related to the goals of the lesion.
- Organization
problems.
- Choosing
equipments and other such apparatus.
However,
developing and using appropriate signals, for example, in stopping or changing
activity, and ensuring that players know these signals, is a strategy that
should be used to save and allocate time wisely.
Objective
Objective
should be clear, precise and achievable. Consider carefully the needs and goals
of players.
Content
Activity
Activity
planned earlier should consider the relationship of content and objective, time
availability, needs of players and many more.
Visual
Aids
In
teaching skill, the coach should remember, that visual aids are just as
effective in learning as words. The coach should select appropriate teaching
aids and use these when necessary.
Evaluation
Evaluation
is a process of determining the extent to which the objectives have been
achieved.
A
good coach is keen to determine the progress players are making after each session
and after number of sessions. Before making judgments about player progress in
terms of the goals established, the coach has to collect suitable data or
information. Sometimes skill or field test are necessary. At all times
systematic observations are important.