Class Motor and Technical-Tactical Skills Training

1. Understand the value and relevance of motor and technical-tactical skills, among the multiple determinants of sports performance.

2. Contribute to the specialization of coaches in sports, enabling them to acquire and deepen knowledge and methods of intervention related to planning, conducting, monitoring and evaluating the training process, within the scope of motor and technical-tactical skills, in athletes of the high performance training.

3. Provide sports technicians with knowledge, enabling them to master training assessment and control tools specific to different sports and to contribute to their specialization in the area of their sports intervention.

The designation of the Curricular Unit and its content organization intends, by studying all factors, to avoid an analytical-reducing perspective of the understanding of movement and sports performance. The program includes the following chapters:

1 Sports technique, design, objectives, means and methods of learning and development. Technical training in various sports - meaning, similarity and diversity.

2. Sports tactics, conception, objectives, means and methods of learning and development. Tactics training in various sports - meaning, similarity and diversity.

3 Training and development of endurance, speed, strength, agility and flexibility in different contexts of sports performance, different modalities and age levels.

4. Load monitoring and training evaluation and control of different motor skills.

Theoretical and theoretical-practical classes are taught. Information, questioning and questioning of concepts in their process of interaction and validation with reality, giving rise to critical reflection by students, will constitute the privileged method of teaching. Articles, observation reports, as well as dissertations, will constitute predominant teaching instruments. In addition, the b-learning system will be used, based on the Moodle platform, where didactic support materials will be available for each of the classes held (slides and supporting texts). Students will be assessed through analysis of articles, group work (2 elements) to present and discuss in class, as well as a frequency on topics previously proposed and approved by the conductor.

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