Introduction to Small Whites Coaching - Free
This two hour workshop blends together demonstrations of practical activities with good advice on how to survive your first coaching season. Specifically targeting new and inexperienced coaches, this course and supporting resources is a great starting point for coaches looking for friendly advice on how and what to coach your junior players.
What's on offer:
Age-appropriate practical demonstrations
Age-appropriate coaching techniques
The Small Whites coaching resource
Coaching resources - ideas for training
Level 1 Junior Football Coaching Award - $62
This four hour workshop provides coaches with a deeper insight into age appropriate, effective coaching for players aged 6-8 years and or 9-12 years. This course of learning combines an examination of both the How and What of coaching junior players through an interactive and practical approach as well as providing a comprehensive resource for coaches to take away and use with their players. This course is perfect for coaches who are looking to improve their coaching and to develop their knowledge and understanding of how to work effectively with junior players.
What's on offer:
NZF formal qualification - silver & gold levels
Understanding the player-centred coaching philosphy
Developing strategies to make your coaching more effective
Understanding how to use player-centred coaching tools
Practice planning and delivering age-appropriate actitivites
Training resource - catalogue of games & practices for your designated age group
Level 2 Junior Football Coaching Certificate Modules - $45 each
This level of development introduces coaches to a new modular learning system. The system is designed to provide you with a smorgasbord of bite sized learning opportunities that when accumulated develop your knowledge and skills in a wide range of coaching related subject areas.
The module content has been carefully designed to provide you with the relevant knowledge and skills to progress your learning and help you to work effectively within this particular age group of players. The modules have been classified as either age specific modules or generic modules.
The generic modules involve content and learning that is relevant to all coaches regardless of the age of the players they coach, i.e. player centred coaching and the specific modules contain content that is relevant to a designated community of players (i.e. Game Day Coaching 9-12 years). These modules are perfect for beginner and developing coaches who want to increase their effectiveness in key areas of coaching pertaining to junior players.
What's on offer:
Module 1: Game Day Coaching 9-12 Years (4 hours)
Creating a game day coaching philosophy
Understanding the needs of your players on game days
Overview of the basic tactics and principles of play in small sided games
Developing player-centred coaching strategies to support player learning on game days
Module 2: Player-Centred Coaching Tools (4 hours)
Understanding how to use the "Teaching Games For Understanding" coaching tool
Understanding how to use "questioning" effectively
Understanding how players learn and developing strategies to promote learning
Practical coaching ideas to develop a player centred approach to coaching
Module 3: Introduction to Goalkeeping (4 hours)
Principles underpinning the development of junior goalkeepers
Ideas for practices and integrating goalkeeping training into your coaching sessions
Practice planning and delivering age-appropriate goal keeping activities
Training Resource - catalogue of games and practices for your designated age group
Contact the Football Development Officer in your area for more details
Western BOP and Thames / Coromandel
Peter Smith on 027 583 0883 or peter.s@waibopfootball.co.nz
Central and Eastern BOP
Nicola Demaine on 07 348 4125, ext. 608, or nicola.d@waibopfootball.co.nz
Waikato
Paul Stewart on 07 843 1368, ext. 9, or paul.s@waibopfootball.co.nz
