SE765-7-FY-CO:
Coaching Practice Placement
2024/25
Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences (School of)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
30
09 August 2024
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 will evidence 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.
The module will also give you the opportunity to develop yourself as a theoretically astute practitioner. You will draw on contemporary sport coaching theory to reflect on, and plan for, your work-based interactions and practices. Through regular intervals of critical dialogue with peers and mentors, coupled with reflection, you will be supported to effectively navigate the everyday realities of sport coaching employment.
The aims of this module are:
- 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.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Demonstrate an advanced knowledge and understanding of a broad range of factors influencing coaching practice.
- Identify and critically evaluate opportunities to promote coaching and development within a variety of coaching settings.
- Critically evaluate a range of interventions that can be utilised when working collaboratively with service users, peers and the inter-professional team.
- Critically evaluate their evolving scope of practice and preparedness for qualified practice.
- Independently identify opportunities to develop scope of practice further upon placement.
- Effectively communicate, in a structured and coherent manner, the evolution of their practice, critically reflecting on its impact and implications for future professional development and innovation in the field.
Indicative Content:
- CPD and development of own needs;
- Impact of development on self and others;
- The use of peer feedback in development of self;
- In-situ coach development tools;
- Disruption to practice through discourse;
- Decision-making at all levels;
- Emotional intelligence;
- Social / Sociological Theory;
- Micropolitical Astuteness;
- Impression Management and Teamwork;
- Preparation of self for placement;
- Mandatory training (1st week practical);
- Peer feedback and coaching (formative assessment)
This module will be delivered via:
- A mixture of lectures, workshops, drop in sessions and independent learning.
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Huntley, Emma; Cropley, Brendan; Knowles, Zoe; Miles, Andy (2019) 'The BASES Expert Statement on Reflective Practice: the Key to Experimental Learning.',
Sport & Exercise Scientist, (60), pp. 6–7. Available at:
https://search-ebscohost-com.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=s3h&AN=138040083&site=ehost-live&authtype=sso&custid=s9814295.
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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/.
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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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Gilbert, W.D. and Trudel, P. (2001a) 'Learning to Coach through Experience: Reflection in Model Youth Sport Coaches',
Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 21(1), pp. 16–34. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.21.1.16.
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Gilbert, W.D. and Trudel, P. (2001b) 'Learning to Coach through Experience: Reflection in Model Youth Sport Coaches',
Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 21(1), pp. 16–34. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.21.1.16.
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Cushion, C.J. (2018a) 'Reflection and reflective practice discourses in coaching: a critical analysis',
Sport, Education and Society, 23(1), pp. 82–94. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2016.1142961.
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Jay, J.K. and Johnson, K.L. (2002) 'Capturing complexity: a typology of reflective practice for teacher education',
Teaching and Teacher Education, 18(1), pp. 73–85. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0742-051X(01)00051-8.
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Cushion, C.J. (2018b) 'Reflection and reflective practice discourses in coaching: a critical analysis',
Sport, Education and Society, 23(1), pp. 82–94. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2016.1142961.
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Gomes, R.
et al. (2018a) 'Latent learning in the work place: the placement experiences of student-coaches',
Sport, Education and Society, 23(1), pp. 68–81. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2016.1141287.
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Bassot, B. (2024) The Reflective Journal. 4th ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
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Moon, J.A. (2004) A handbook of reflective and experiential learning: theory and practice. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
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Gomes, R.
et al. (2018b) 'Latent learning in the work place: the placement experiences of student-coaches',
Sport, Education and Society, 23(1), pp. 68–81. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2016.1141287.
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 |
Presentation |
02/12/2024 |
25% |
| Coursework |
Essay |
21/03/2025 |
25% |
| Coursework |
Portfolio |
06/06/2025 |
50% |
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.
SRES Office, email: sres (Non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create the full email address)
No
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Prof Paul Potrac
Northumbria University
Professor
Dr Charlie Corsby
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching
Available via Moodle
Of 16 hours, 14 (87.5%) hours available to students:
2 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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