Teaching styles of Australian junior tennis coaches
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Paper/Presentation Title | Teaching styles of Australian junior tennis coaches |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Hewitt, Mitchell (Author), Edwards, Ken (Author) and Pill, Shane (Author) |
Editors | Bruce, Judy and North, Chris |
Journal or Proceedings Title | 2015 Game Sense for Teaching and Coaching Conference: Conference Proceedings |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2016 |
Place of Publication | Canterbury, New Zealand |
ISBN | 9780473353209 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.education.canterbury.ac.nz/sportpe/GameSense/ |
Conference/Event | 2015 Game Sense for Teaching and Coaching Conference |
Event Details | 2015 Game Sense for Teaching and Coaching Conference Event Date 17 to end of 18 Nov 2015 Event Location Christchurch, New Zealand |
Abstract | Game Sense was introduced to Australian tennis during Australian Sports Commission (ASC) national workshops in 1996, prompting tennis coach education providers to emphasise the approach, and its embrace of increased player involvement in the coaching process, in formal coach accreditation literature. This research involving 208 junior development and club professional coaches in self-assessment of their teaching styles, provides insight into the penetration into the everyday coaching practice of one of the central pedagogical tenets of the Game Sense approach – the use of well-considered coach questions to guide the development of players’ technical and tactical game development. Since the ASC workshops in 1996, until this research there has been no assessment of the uptake of the Game Sense approach in Australian tennis. The pedagogical practice of coach-led questions in the Game Sense approach has been referred to as a form of guided discovery. This research used Mosston and Ashworth’s Spectrum of Teaching Styles (2008) (The Spectrum) as a tool through which to investigate the coaching styles of Australian junior tennis coaches, revealing coaches self-identified alignment with the guided discovery practice of coach-led questions (Mosston’s Guided Discovery-Style F). The research found that a practice style (Mosston’s Practice Style-B) was the pedagogical style used most often by the respondents, followed by a more directive or command style (Mosston’s Command Style-A). Guided discovery (Mosston’s Guided Discovery-Style F) was the third most commonly adopted pedagogical practice. |
Keywords | Game Sense; Spectrum of Teaching Styles; tennis; Australia; coaching; coaches |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390111. Physical education and development curriculum and pedagogy |
Public Notes | Copyright © 2016 Published by the School of Sport and Physical Education, University of Canterbury. All rights remain with the authors. |
Byline Affiliations | Tennis Australia, Australia |
School of Health and Wellbeing | |
Flinders University | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3vx1/teaching-styles-of-australian-junior-tennis-coaches
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