Teaching Sports Skills

About the course

Teaching Sports Skills, based on the National Standards for Sport Coaches, provides the teacher/coach with information needed for successful teaching methods. Successful coaching and successful teaching share many characteristics in their approaches and results. This course provides education for those individuals who have not had training in how to teach sports skills.

NFHS National Coaching Credentials

The NFHS Learning Center offers a 3-level national coaching credential that helps you gain knowledge you can use to provide a fun, educational, and a safer environment for your students.

This national credential was developed for individuals who are currently coaching or aspire to coach at the interscholastic level. The goal is to enhance the ability of the coach to better serve students, the school, the community, and the profession of coaching.

Coach Level 1

National Credential

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Coach Level 2

National Credential

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Coach Level 3

National Credential

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Your Course Curriculum

Course comes with

1 Introduction

1 Sections
- Course Welcome
2 Sports Skills Instruction

7 Sections
- The Heart of Good Coaching
- Critical Steps of Instruction
- Demands and Purpose
- Prioritize
- Communicate
- Organize
- Supervise and Feedback
3 Implicit Instruction

3 Sections
- Student Knowledge
- Analogies
- Errorless Learning
4 Designing Intentional Instr...

4 Sections
- Attention
- Communicating Clearly
- Demonstrations
- Critical Elements of Feedback
5 Coach Functions in Teaching...

5 Sections
- Overview
- Minimizing Risk
- Check for Understanding
- Monitoring Success
- Motivation
6 Conclusion

1 Sections
- Congratulations