SE765-7-PS-CO:
Coaching Practice Placement
2023/24
Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences (School of)
Colchester Campus
Spring & Summer
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 28 June 2024
15
19 October 2023
Requisites for this module
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MSC C60712 Sport Coaching Practice,
MSC C60724 Sport Coaching Practice
The placement offers hands-on experience working as a coach, tutor or support practitioner to develop your underpinning knowledge of key applied practice in coaching. This module centres around a coaching placement where you are supported by a placement supervisor and University of Essex staff.
Students are encouraged to adopt a reflective approach to develop their expertise and practice. You will develop your; core skills / competencies (communication, problem solving, management and professional behaviour) and critically appraise practitioner perspectives within sport coaching.
To enable students to apply, evaluate and analyse approaches to developing themselves as professionals
To enable students to apply, evaluate and analyse approaches to developing others such as service users and peers in a variety of contexts.
On successful completion of this module, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an advanced knowledge and understanding of a broad range of factors influencing coaching practice.
2. Identify and critically evaluate opportunities to promote coaching and development within a variety of coaching settings.
3. Critically evaluate a range of interventions that can be utilised when working collaboratively with service users, peers and the inter-professional team.
4. Critically evaluate their evolving scope of practice and preparedness for qualified practice.
5. Independently identify opportunities to develop scope of practice further upon placement.
6. Communicate clearly, in a well-structured manner, to synthesise how your practice has evolved and critically discuss the impact on future developments.
Indicative Content:
CPD and development of own needs
Impact of development on self and others
The use of peer feedback in development of self
Emotional intelligence
Preparation of self for placement
Mandatory training (1st week practical)
Peer feedback and coaching (formative assessment)
A mixture of lectures, workshops, drop in sessions and independent learning will be used to deliver this module.
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Knowles, Z.
et al. (2006) ‘Reflecting on reflection: exploring the practice of sports coaching graduates’,
Reflective Practice, 7(2), pp. 163–179. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1080/14623940600688423.
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Cronin, C.J. and Lowes, J. (2016) ‘Embedding experiential learning in HE sport coaching courses: An action research study’,
Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, 18, pp. 1–8. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlste.2016.02.001.
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Ferkins, L. (2002) ‘Sporting best practice: An industry view of work placements’,
Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 3(2), pp. 29–34. Available at:
https://www.ijwil.org/.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Placement |
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| Coursework |
Placement Presentation - FASER submission |
|
25% |
| Coursework |
Portfolio |
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75% |
Additional coursework information
Formative assessment:
500 word draft / plan
Formative assessment using practice placement assessment form
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Benjamin Jones, email: bjonesa@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Ben Jones and Dr Adrian Mallows
SRES Office, email: sres (Non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create the full email address)
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Prof Paul Potrac
Northumbria University
Professor
Available via Moodle
Of 2 hours, 2 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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