BlazeSports Institute for Applied Science CDSS Level II Curriculum

1. BlazeSports Institute for Applied Science CDSS Level II Curriculum

2. Planning and Goal Setting: Building the Foundation for a Successful Season

3. Objectives • Understand the role planning can play in crafting a successful season • Understand the benefits of planning as it applies to systematically developing a season plan • Know the four basic types of plans • Be better prepared to properly organize your team and season for successful and safe competition

4. Objectives • Understand the importance of goal setting in achieving consistent success • Understand the three categories of goals, their interdependence and roles in achieving success • Understand the importance of collaborative goal setting

5. Objectives • Develop a process and performance oriented mindset relative to goal setting • Be able to properly set performance and process goals to achieve desired outcomes

6. Benefits of Planning • Identify team and individual goals. • These goals will impact your decisions throughout the season • Maximize available time, space and equipment. • Critical when practicing only 1-2 times per week • Minimize discipline problems. • Organization leads to clear expectations and little down time

7. Benefits of Planning • Keep your athletes engaged throughout practice. • Avoid drills and scenarios where athletes are stagnate • Teach skills in the appropriate progression. • Fundamentals are the foundation for success • Increase your confidence as a coach. • Always know your next move

8. Types of Plans • Season Plan • Weekly Plan • Practice Plan • Game Plan

9. Why a Season Plan? • A Season Plan forces you to think about the BIG PICTURE. • If you fail to plan, you plan to fail! • A Season Plan is your roadmap to success. • If you don’t know how to get where you’re going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else.

10. Why a Season Plan? • A Season Plan does not guarantee success, but it does increase your chances! • It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. - John Wooden

11. Developing a Season Plan • Before you can develop a Season Plan, you must: • Identify the skills your athletes need • Know your athletes • Analyze your situation • Set team and individual goals • Establish priorities • Select methods for teaching

12. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Technical Skills • Tactical Skills • Physical Skills • Mental Skills • Communication Skills • Character Development

13. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Technical Skills • These are the skills that every player must posses in order to play the sport at the appropriate level of competition. • Fundamental skills • Advanced skills

14. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Tactical Skills • These are the decision making skills needed within the sport.

15. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Tactical Skill Development • Step 1: Identify the important decisions needed to play the sport. • Step 2: Determine what knowledge is needed to make a good decision regarding the situation. • Step 3: Identify the cues that should be recognized and acted upon and help determine a course of action for each cue.

16. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Tactical Skill Development • Step 4: Identify the appropriate tactical options, guidelines or rules your athletes should follow to make the tactical decision. • Step 5: Design at least one practice game that gives your athletes the opportunity to work on reading the situation and selecting the appropriate tactic.

17. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Physical Skills • Flexibility • Agility • Balance • Strength • Speed • Quickness • Power • Endurance • Nutrition & Weight Control

18. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Physical Skills • Nutrition & Weight Control • Lead by example • Set rules for travel • No soda • Limit sport drinks • No sweets • Eat breakfast • Good choices for breakfast

19. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Mental Skills • Self-Awareness • Productive Thinking • Self-Confidence • Attentional Focus • Energy Management • Leadership • Communication • Cohesion • Team Confidence

20. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Communication Skills • Sending and receiving verbal and non-verbal messages to and from coaches and teammates

21. Developing a Season Plan • Identify the skills your athletes need • Character Development • Good Sportsmanship • Responsibility • Respect • Trustworthiness • Citizenship • Caring • Fairness

22. Developing a Season Plan • Know Your Athletes • What are your other hobbies or interests? • What is your favorite quote or personal motto? • What do you like about your sport? • What do you dislike about your sport? • What can the coaches do to help you better enjoy your sport?

23. Developing a Season Plan • Know Your Athletes • What are three personal goals that you would like to accomplish this year? • What are three team goals that you would like to accomplish this year? • What are three personal goals that you would like to accomplish next year? • What are three team goals that you would like to accomplish next year?

24. Developing a Season Plan • Know Your Athletes • Why they are playing the sport • Age • Physical, psychological and social maturity • Primary and secondary disabilities • Playing experience • Present skills • Capabilities or potential

25. Developing a Season Plan • Analyze Your Situation • What are your resources and limitations? • How many practices per week? • How long is each practice? • What facilities and equipment do you have available? • How many athletes will you have? • What staff will you have? • How many competitions will you attend? • What funds do you have available?

26. Developing a Season Plan • Set Team and Individual Goals • Goals should have SMARTS • S Specific and positive • M Measurable • A Achievable • R Realistic • T Timely • S Self Determined • Once you determine what you want to achieve, you can determine what skills need to be developed in order to achieve those goals

27. Developing a Season Plan • Establish Priorities • There are never enough hours in a day! • In order to achieve your goals, determine: • What MUST be taught to achieve the desired outcomes • What SHOULD be covered if good use is made of the available resources • What COULD be taught if time permits

28. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Traditional Method • Games Approach • Modalities

29. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Traditional Method • Warm up • Introduce new technical skill • Practice technical skill through drills • Scrimmage in hopes to see technical skill utilized

30. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Disadvantages of Traditional Method • Overemphasis on technical skills • Overemphasis on direct instruction (coach centered) • Drills do not require tactical decisions • Drills may not keep all athletes engaged

31. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Games Approach • Counters the disadvantages of the Traditional Method • Holistic • Requires tactical decisions • Keeps the athletes engaged • Simulates game like scenarios

33. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Games Approach • Shaping play • Focusing play • Enhancing play

34. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Games Approach • ShapingPlay • Redesign the game so that your athletes have the opportunity to practice what is relevant in the real game. • Four Ways to Shape Play • Change the rules • Alter the number of players • Alter the playing area • Modify the goal and the scoring

35. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Games Approach • FocusingPlay • Focus attention on the key elements of the game that are to be learned during the practice game. • Freeze Play

36. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Games Approach • EnhancingPlay • Enhance play by presenting challenges, using handicapping techniques to make close contests and recognize progress.

37. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Modalities • No matter what method you use to teach, you must always teach using all of the modalities to insure that all of your athletes properly learn from the instruction • Visual • Audible • Kinesthetic (Hands On)

38. Developing a Season Plan • Select Methods for Teaching • Modalities • Everyone learns through different methods and/or combinations of methods • If you don't get it through to them via one method - you better back up and try teaching it through another • If you know how each of your athletes best learns material, and you teach to that modality, you will be a better coach

39. Developing a Season Plan • Once you have: • Identified the skills your athletes need • Gotten to know your athletes • Analyzed your situation • Set team and individual goals • Established your priorities • Selected your methods for teaching • You are ready to put everything together into your Season Plan!!

40. Developing a Season Plan • Start with your goals and work your way backwards • Determine what you need to do in order to achieve your goals • Set your timeline for teaching skills • Build from the fundamentals up • Adhere to your priorities

41. Types of Plans • Season Plan • Weekly Plan • Practice Plan • Game Plan

42. Why a Weekly Plan? • Use a weekly plan if you have more than one practice per week. • Follow your season plan and the sequence of instruction for the sport skills. • Adjust for areas of need. • Plan for light practices before home games and days off after tournaments. • Give individual skills as homework.

43. Developing a Weekly Plan • Elements of a Weekly Plan • Schedule • Practices • Competitions • Special events • Other programs • Summary of the goals you want to accomplish that week • Summary of the skills you want to develop that week

44. Types of Plans • Season Plan • Weekly Plan • Practice Plan • Game Plan

45. Why a Practice Plan • The Practice Plan is the document that summarizes what you are going to do on a given day in order to accomplish the goals of your Weekly and Season Plans. • Developing a Practice Plan allows you to think about what you need to teach and how you want to teach it.

46. Why a Practice Plan • By developing an organized Practice Plan, you can: • Ensure that you are properly utilizing your facility and equipment. • Providing adequate time for warm up, stretching, water breaks and cool down. • Teach skills in a proper sequence. • Have a record of what instruction was given, what worked and what didn’t work.

47. Why a Practice Plan • Elements of a Written Practice Plan • Date • Practice start time • Length of practice • Practice objectives • Equipment • Climate conditions for outdoor practices • Practice activities • Time of activity • Name of activity • Description of activity • Key teaching points • Evaluation

49. Why a Practice Plan • Wheelchair Athletes • What needs to be added to the practice plan?

50. Types of Plans • Season Plan • Weekly Plan • Practice Plan • Game Plan