Postgraduate Course: Managing the Coaching Process (SPRT10048)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education and Sport |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Within performance coaching managing and coordinating several variables is essential to coaching effectiveness. The coaching process allows a systematic approach to improving performance in different coaching contexts, through rationally planned, managed, delivered and monitored programmes.
Great coaches are adaptable experts. Highly effective coaching is a highly individualised, differentiated, and contextualised process. Consequently, good coaching is facilitated by effective judgement and decision making and requires the coach to have a full comprehension of the context and the biopsychosocial factors that influence the coaching process.
This course introduces coaches to coaching models, principles of review and evaluation, effective coaching, and the management of the coaching environment. The students will have the opportunity to critically review current research within coaching as well as undertake basic data collection in the practical coaching environment. Students will also be introduced to principles of scientific writing.
Students must take this course in their first semester as it provides key concepts and have access to a coaching environment to undertake this course. |
| Course description |
This course will include:
- Expertise in coaching
- Situational comprehension
- Biopsychosocial demands within the coaching process
- Professional Judgement and Decision Making (PJDM)
- Option generation and reflection on judgement and decision making
- Planning the coaching process
- Organisational coaching roles and responsibilities
- Coaching for high performance in human systems, managing excellence in complex settings
- Academic skills and strategies for effective writing and practical real-world investigation
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Regular access to a networked computer is required. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyse and evaluate current models of coaching
- Critically review the key issues involved in the creation, development, and management of a high-performance coaching environment
- Demonstrate the ability to create and implement a management strategy to enhance the short and long-term development of a high-performance system
- Outline principles of effective decision-making and synthesise coherent decision-making in performance coaching
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Reading List
Passmore, J. (2021). The Coaches' Handbook; The Complete Practitioners Guide for Professional Coaches, Routledge. Taylor & Francis.
Nash, C. Practical Sports Coaching, (Second Edition), London, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/978100317933
Collins, L., & Collins, D. (2015). Professional Judgment and Decision Making in Sports Coaching: The Role of Interaction. Journal of Sports Science. Doi:10.1080/02640414.2015.1105379
Collins, L., & Collins, D. (2016). The Foci of In-action Professional Judgment and Decision Making in High-Level Adventure Sports Coaching Practice, Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. Doi:10.1080/14729679.2016.1227717
Collins, L., & Collins, D. (2016). Professional Judgment and Decision Making in the Planning Process of High-Level Adventure Sports Coaching Practice. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. Doi: 10.1080/14729679.2016.1162182 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
A comprehensive understanding of and the ability to critique coaching effectiveness
Search for, access, critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise relevant literature and information in order to develop their knowledge and understanding relating to coaching
Be able to exercise substantial autonomy and initiative in academic activities, including decision making on the basis of independent thought
Be able to use communication as a means for collaborating and relating to others including staff, fellow students, research participants
Be able to engage in critical discussion demonstrating listening skills, effective use of evidence and own experience to support assertions, and clear articulation of points.
Be able to seek and value open feedback to inform genuine self-awareness
Be able to transfer knowledge, skills and abilities to a professional context
Be able to effectively work collaboratively with others, recognising the diversity of contributions individuals can make |
| Special Arrangements |
The course is delivered entirely online, with no on-campus class sessions |
| Keywords | coaching effectiveness,coaching as management,professional judg |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Christine Nash
Tel: (0131 6)51 6581
Email: c.nash@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Eleanor Terry
Tel: (0131 6)51 6812
Email: eterry@ed.ac.uk |
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