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Coaching others to coach
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Alex Twitchen and Ben Oakley. It was first published in July 2019.

The Open University would like to acknowledge and thank the following people for their help and generous assistance with the writing of this course: Ed Cope (The Football Association), Steve McQuaid (ActionProvoked), Andy Bradshaw (UK Coaching), Jay Roper (UK Sport), staff and students at the University of Chichester, and Stuart Armstrong, Lucy Moore and Sion Kitson (Sport England).

Session 1

Images

Figure 1: Dusit; Shutterstock.com

Figure 2: faithie; Shutterstock.com

Figure 4: subin pumsom; Shutterstock.com

Figure 5: Mopic; Shutterstock.com

Figure 7: Marish; Shutterstock.com

Figure 9: wavebreakmedia; Shutterstock.com

Figure 11: wavebreakmedia;Shutterstock.com

Audio-visual

Video 3: courtesy of: Mark S Bennett MBE; PDScoach.com

Audio 1: Alan Keane and Stuart Armstrong; The Talent Equation

Session 2

Images

Figures 1 and 9: Rawpixel.com; Shutterstock.com

Figure 3: cla78; Shutterstock.com

Figure 4: Rei Imagine; Shutterstock.com

Figure 5: vfpictures; Shutterstock.com

Figure 7: Rawpixel; Shutterstock.com

Figure 8: mypokcik ; Shutterstock.com

Audio-visual

Audio 1: GoodPractice; www.goodpractice.com

Session 3

Images

Figure 1: Alan Edwards/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 2: Thor Jorgen Udvang; Shutterstock.com

Figure 3: BlurryMe; Shutterstock.com

Figure 5: Matej Kastelic;Shutterstock.com

Figure 6: digitalskillet ; Shutterstock.com

Figure 8: fizkes ; Shutterstock.com

Figure 10: Michele Paccione;Shutterstock.com

Audio-visual

Activity 2: Video 2: Chris Hoy: 200 mph at Le Mans 29 0ct 2016 © BBC

Activity 3: Audio 1: Lucy Moore and Stuart Armstrong; The Talent Equation

Activity 7: Video 3: IRIS Connect

Session 4

Text

Activity 3: case A: taken from: Power and knowledge in a coach mentoring program, (2018): Chris Zehntner & Jenny McMahon, Sports Coaching Review

Activity 4: case B: taken from ‘Coaches’ reflections of formal coach education; a critical sociological investigation’ (2012) Piggot, D., Sport, Education and Society, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 535–54.

Images

Figure 1: Peter Hermes Furian;Shutterstock.com

Figure 2: nicomenijes; Getty Images

Figure 3: Olivier Le Moal; Shutterstock.com

Figure 4: Erica Smit; Shutterstock.com

Figure 5: Axel Alvarez; Shutterstock.com

Figure 6: Lightspring; Shutterstock.com

Figure 7: Triff; Shutterstock.com

Session 5

Images

Figure 2: kali9; Getty Images

Figure 3: Flamingo Images; Shutterstock.com

Figure 4: Africa Studio; Shutterstock.com

Figure 7: Jarretera; Shutterstock.com

Audio-visual

Activity 1: Video 1: courtesy of Manchester Metropolitan University

Activity 1: Video 2: courtesy of Maastricht University

Activity 3: Video 3: Edutopia Technologies

Activity 3: Video 3: Edutopia Technologies

Session 6

Images

Figure 1: docstockmedia; Shutterstock.com

Figure 2: igorstevanovic ;Shutterstock.com

Figure 3: ESB Professional; Shutterstock.com

Figure 6: EtiAmmos; Shutterstock.com

Figure 7: pathdoc; Shutterstock.com

Audio-visual

Activity 1: Video 2: Australian Sports Commission; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 3.0/ au/ deed.en [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

Activity 2: Video 3: Supporting Champions; https://www.supportingchampions.co.uk/

Activity 3: Audio 2: Lucy Moore and Stuart Armstrong; The Talent Equation

Activity 4: Video 4: TED Talks; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Activity 5: Video 5: Griffith University

Activity 6: Video 6: Paddy Upton

Session 7

Text

Is coach observation worth pursuing? David Keelty; https://medium.com/@CoachngUnleashd

Images

Figure 1: courtesy of Jenny Coady

Figure 2: Monkey Business Images; Shutterstock.com

Figure 3: Africa Studio; Shutterstock.com

Figure 4: Titov Nikolai; Shutterstock.com

Figure 5: South_agency; Getty Images

Figure 6: Rawpixel.com; Shutterstock.com

Figure 7: Sangoiri; Shutterstock.com

Figure 8: David Keelty

Audio-visual

Activity 2: Video 1: Barry Stark Snooker Coach

Activity 3: Video 2: research conducted by Loughborough University; Professor C. Cushion

Activity 4: Video 3: Australian Sports Commission; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 3.0/ au/ deed.en

Activity 5: Video 4: Youth Sport Trust, 2010

Activity 6: Video 5: Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (aitsl)

Activity 6: Audio 1: can’t find in the Portal?

Session 8

Images

Figure 1: OSTILL is Franck Camhi ;Shutterstock.com

Figure 2: Pixsooz;Shutterstock.com

Figure 3: Golden Sikorka; Shutterstock.com

Figure 7: metamorworks; Shutterstock.com

Figure 8: kikovic; Shutterstock.com

Figure 9: tuntekron petsajun; Shutterstock.com

Figure 10: Rawpixel.com: Shutterstock.com

Audio-visual

Activity 3: Video 2: TED Talks; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 4.0/

Activity 4: Video 3: British Triathlon; www.britishtriathlon.org

Activity 5: Videos 4 and 5: IRIS Connect

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