courses

Overview

Waikato Bay of Plenty Football, as one of New Zealand’s seven Football Federations, have a responsibility to provide opportunities and pathways for interested individuals to develop into quality football coaches.   The Federation in conjunction with New Zealand Football operate a national coach education program which provides a consistent and nationally recognised accreditation structure. In line with the recommendations laid out in the Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) Coaching Strategy (2004), and the findings of research conducted in 2005 and 2006, New Zealand Football has shifted the traditional Coach Education ‘goal posts’ adopting a new and exciting approach for developing coaches at all levels in the game.   This new approach is founded on the following principles:

Appropriate for New Zealand - reflective of New Zealand’s unique culture and football environment.

Flexible - providing coaches with more choice and a higher degree of ownership in selecting and following their own development pathway.

Player centred – based on the needs of the players and designed to meet the age-related development needs of players throughout the game.

Applicable and practical - ‘on-the job learning’ experiences (creating and recognizing learning experiences in the coaching environment).

Life long learning - promoting continued personal development and self-responsibility for learning.
The new approach will provide a smorgasbord of learning opportunities that allow coaches to identify and access personal development that corresponds with the players they are coaching and their specific developmental needs. 

2009 courses information is detailed below or by downloading a coaching course brochure, in our ‘Coach Development / Brochures’ section on our website. New courses will be progressively introduced year on year until the framework is complete.
 
For any coach development enquiries please don’t hesitate to contact the Football Development Officer in your area
Western BOP – 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 nicol.d@waibopfootball.co.nz.
Waikato - Paul Stewart on 07 843 1368, ext. 9, or paul.s@waibopfootball.co.nz.

 Junior Pathway
Small Whites Introductory Level
Cost: nil
The Small Whites course is aimed at beginner coaches of players aged under 12 and provides an awareness of practices and teaching methods in areas such as; player characteristics, how sessions ‘fit’ the development age, how children learn and organisation of sessions.
During the workshop coaches will see a variety of age appropriate games and activities, that they can use with their own players and coaches will have the opportunity to participate in the games presented, ask questions and complete simple group tasks in a relaxed and fun environment.
All attendees will receive a Junior Coaching Personal Development folder and a catalogue of age-appropriate activities and games. 

Level 1 – Junior Coaching Award
Cost: $62
The Junior Coaching Award is aimed at coaches of players aged under 12 and provides coaches with the appropriate level of knowledge and skills that will encourage player participation and support age appropriate player development in fun, safe and rewarding environments.
After completing some pre-course work, coaches will be presented with opportunities to participate in and complete practical workshops while distance learning, including both on-line learning and self-development tasks to be completed in their own coaching environment are also part of the course.
The course can be achieved at either a Silver or Gold Level. The reach the Gold Level, coaches must complete all of the distance learning tasks and attend a two-hour Gold Level Summary Workshop.
All attendees will receive a Junior Coaching Personal Development folder and a catalogue of age-appropriate activities and games. 

Level 2 - Junior Coaching Certificate
The Junior Coaching Certificate is aimed at coaches of players aged 9-12 who feel their players require more support in the build up to, and during, game day as well as coaches who want to increase their knowledge of effective team play in the playing formats their players experience in 7v7.
The course will based around a number of themed modules where coaches will be presented with opportunities to participate in and complete practical workshops while distance learning incorporates self development tasks to be completed in their own coaching environment.

Module 1: Game Day Coaching

Cost: $45
The Game Day Coaching module aims to enhance your players' enjoyment and learning of the game by empowering the coach with knowledge of and understanding of how to meet the needs of the player on game day. Includes topics on creating a game day philosophy and basic tactics/principles of play in small sided games. The module mixes theory and practical activities.

Module 2: Player-Centred Coaching

Cost: $45
This module introduces coaches to using the Teaching Games For Understanding coaching tool, demonstrates how to use 'questioning' effectively, aids coach understanding of how players learn and demonstrates practical ideas to develop a player-centred approach to coaching.

Module 3: Introduction to Goalkeeping
Cost: $45
This modules introduces the principles underpinning the development of junior goalkeepers, provides ideas for integrating goalkeepers into training sessions, planning/delivering age-appropriate goalkeeping activities, provides a training resource with a catalogue of games/practices for designated age-group.

Youth Pathway
Level 1 - Youth Coaching Award
Cost: $62
The Youth Coaching Award is aimed at coaches of players aged between 12-19 and provides coaches with the appropriate level of knowledge and skills that will encourage player participation and support age appropriate player development in fun, safe and rewarding environments.
Coaches will be presented with opportunities to participate in and complete practical workshops while distance learning, including both on-line and self development tasks to be completed in their own coaching environment, will cover:
- Exploring effective coaching strategies
- Understanding players’ age related characteristics
- Understanding player centred learning
- Understanding age appropriate player development
- Planning, designing and delivering age appropriate practices
The Youth Coaching Award can be achieved at either Silver or Gold Level. The Gold Level can be achieved by completing all of the prescribed distance learning tasks and attendance at a two hour  ‘Gold Level Summary Workshop’.   
All attendees will receive a Youth Coaching Personal Development Folder and a catalogue of age-appropriate training activities and games.

Level 2 – Youth Coaching Certificate
The Youth Coaching Certificate is aimed at coaches of players aged between 12-19 with the desire to increase their own effectiveness in supporting their players’ game understanding and want to increase their knowledge of effective game play in the playing formats their players’ experience in 11v11.
The course will based around a number of themed modules.

Module 1: Game Day Coaching

Cost: $45
Coaches will be presented with opportunities to participate in and complete practical workshops while distance learning incorporates self development tasks to be completed in their own coaching environment covering:
- Understanding playing formats 11v11
- Using principles of play to guide player development in the 11v11
- Understanding strategies to support player learning on game days
- Developing strategies to link the game day and weekly training 
Module 1 of the Level 2 Youth Coaching Certificate can be achieved at either Silver or Gold Level.  The Gold Level can be achieved by completing and showing evidence of all the prescribed distance learning tasks.

Module 2: Player-Centred Coaching

Cost: $45
This module introduces coaches to using the Teaching Games For Understanding coaching tool, demonstrates how to use 'questioning' effectively, aids coach understanding of how players learn and demonstrates practical ideas to develop a player-centred approach to coaching.
All attendees receive Youth Coaching Personal Development Folder and Module Inserts

Senior Pathway
Level 2 - Senior Coaching Certificate
Cost: $540
Covers two modules of learning:

Module 1:
Understanding/applying principles of effective team play

Module 2: Developing a coaching process for use with senior players
This qualification provides coaches with an opportunity to gain knowledge and understanding of effective team play while helping coaches to develop an effective process for coaching senior players. The course of learning is broken into three parts and completed over the course of a football season:

Part 1:
Three days practical/theory workshops

Part 2: Post-workshop self-development and preparation for Practical coaching assessment (approx 2 months of practice with your own team in your own coaching environment)

Part 3: Two-day refresher and Practical Coaching Assessment
During Part two of the course, coaches are provided with an opportunity to apply the knowledge gained from the workshop to their own coaching, using this phrase as preparation for their practical assessment in Part 3.

Level 3 - Senior Coaching Certificate
Cost: $1800
Covers five modules of learning:

Module 1:
Understanding/applying the principles of effective team play

Module 2: Advanced strategies and tactics

Module 3: Developing a system of play

Module 4: Match analysis

Module 5: Developing a coaching process
This 12-day residential course (split into three, four-day blocks completed over a 12-month period) focuses on preparing coaches to effectively meet the needs of senior players operating at the competitive/elite level.
During this time coaches will be exposed to a range of content from exploring modern trends in football to using effective coaching tools to bring tactical ideas alive on the training field. Each block presents coaches with an exciting exploration into the demands of elite football coaching and prepares candidates for the competency based practical coaching assessment conducted at the conclusion of the course.

 

 

 

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