Class Trainer's Competencies and Training

To analyze the functions and tasks of the coach at the various levels of training and development (from training to high performance), reflect on the professional skills needed to achieve the objectives established for each of the levels of training and development, and on the types and "approaches" in training coaches. The UC also aims to promote understanding of the state of research on coach training and the challenges associated with the qualification, training and professionalization of these sports agents.

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1. The rationale of the discipline: principles and assumptions. 2. The philosophy and expertise of coaches, the importance of each and their interrelationship. The process of professional socialisation. 3. Ethics in the education and training of coaches. 4. Research on the profile and on the general and specific competences of the coach. Pedagogical and psychological perspectives. 5. The expert coach: characteristics and components of professional expertise. Stages in the development of professional expertise. 6. Types of educational/training approaches. 7. Coaches’ perceptions of their own education and training. 8. Contexts for coaches’ education and training. 9. Coaches’ sources of knowledge. 10. Types of knowledge related to expertise. 11. Coach education and training programmes. 12. Strategies for professional development: the ability to analyse, to reflect and to justify. Reflective practice.

Student-centered teaching. First, problems are identified. In a second moment, the students look for the solution to the problem in the literature. In a third moment, the solution or solutions found are analyzed and discussed and the teacher adds the missing information.

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