Conversations With Kids: Sport Coach

Improves:

• Deciding what is important

• Understand different perspectives

Directions for Parents:

There is so much to cover here it will be interesting to see what your child mentions. Give them free licence to explore a sport coach’s role. A coach’s job is multi-faceted with tactics, technique, physical attributes, psychological skills and lifestyle demands all part of this. Throw in their personality, communication skills, listening skills and how they carry themselves (facial expressions, mannerisms and body language).

Ideas for Kids:

1. What are the 3 most important things that you would cover in your book?
2. What do you find helpful and unhelpful in the way that sport coach’s talk to you? (Think about what, why, when and how they speak to you).
3. After reading your book, what do you want coaches to understand about how you learn best?