blazesports institute for applied science cdss level ii curriculum

BlazeSports Institute for Applied Science

CDSS Level II Curriculum

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Planning and Goal Setting: Building the Foundation for a

Successful Season

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Objectives• Understand the role planning can play in

crafting a successful season

• Understand the benefits of planning as it applies to systematically developing a season plan

• Know the four basic types of plans

• Be better prepared to properly organize your team and season for successful and safe competition

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Objectives• Understand the importance of goal setting in

achieving consistent success

• Understand the three categories of goals, their interdependence and roles in achieving success

• Understand the importance of collaborative goal setting

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Objectives• Develop a process and performance oriented

mindset relative to goal setting

• Be able to properly set performance and process goals to achieve desired outcomes

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Benefits of Planning• Identify team and individual goals.

• These goals will impact your decisions throughout the season

• Maximize available time, space and equipment.• Critical when practicing only 1-2 times per week

• Minimize discipline problems.• Organization leads to clear expectations and little

down time

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Benefits of Planning• Keep your athletes engaged throughout

practice.• Avoid drills and scenarios where athletes are

stagnate

• Teach skills in the appropriate progression.• Fundamentals are the foundation for success

• Increase your confidence as a coach.• Always know your next move

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Types of Plans

• Season Plan

• Weekly Plan

• Practice Plan

• Game Plan

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Why a Season Plan?• A Season Plan forces you to think about the

BIG PICTURE.• If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!

• A Season Plan is your roadmap to success. • If you don’t know how to get where you’re going,

you’ll probably end up somewhere else.

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Why a Season Plan?• A Season Plan does not guarantee success,

but it does increase your chances!

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. - John Wooden

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Developing a Season Plan• Before you can develop a Season Plan, you

must:• Identify the skills your athletes need

• Know your athletes

• Analyze your situation

• Set team and individual goals

• Establish priorities

• Select methods for teaching

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Developing a Season Plan• Identify the skills your athletes need

• Technical Skills

• Tactical Skills

• Physical Skills

• Mental Skills

• Communication Skills

• Character Development

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• Technical Skills

• These are the skills that every player must posses in order to play the sport at the appropriate level of competition.

• Fundamental skills

• Advanced skills

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• Tactical Skills

• These are the decision making skills needed within the sport.

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• Tactical Skill Development

Step 1: Identify the important decisions needed to play thesport.

Step 2: Determine what knowledge is needed to make agood decision regarding the situation.

Step 3: Identify the cues that should be recognized andacted upon and help determine a course

of actionfor each cue.

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• Tactical Skill Development

Step 4: Identify the appropriate tactical options, guidelines orrules your athletes should follow to make the

tactical decision.

Step 5: Design at least one practice game that gives yourathletes the opportunity to work on reading

thesituation and selecting the appropriate tactic.

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• Physical Skills

• Flexibility• Agility• Balance• Strength• Speed• Quickness• Power• Endurance• Nutrition & Weight Control

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• Physical Skills

• Nutrition & Weight Control• Lead by example

• Set rules for travel• No soda • Limit sport drinks• No sweets• Eat breakfast• Good choices for breakfast

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• Mental Skills• Self-Awareness• Productive Thinking• Self-Confidence• Attentional Focus• Energy Management• Leadership• Communication• Cohesion• Team Confidence

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• Communication Skills• Sending and receiving verbal and non-verbal

messages to and from coaches and teammates

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• Character Development• Good Sportsmanship

• Responsibility• Respect• Trustworthiness• Citizenship• Caring• Fairness

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Developing a Season Plan• Know Your Athletes

• What are your other hobbies or interests?

• What is your favorite quote or personal motto?

• What do you like about your sport?

• What do you dislike about your sport?

• What can the coaches do to help you better enjoy your sport?

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• What are three personal goals that you would like to accomplish this year?

• What are three team goals that you would like to accomplish this year?

• What are three personal goals that you would like to accomplish next year?

• What are three team goals that you would like to accomplish next year?

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• Why they are playing the sport

• Age

• Physical, psychological and social maturity

• Primary and secondary disabilities

• Playing experience

• Present skills

• Capabilities or potential

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Developing a Season Plan• Analyze Your Situation

• What are your resources and limitations?

• How many practices per week?• How long is each practice?• What facilities and equipment do you have available?• How many athletes will you have?• What staff will you have?• How many competitions will you attend?• What funds do you have available?

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Developing a Season Plan• Set Team and Individual Goals

• Goals should have SMARTS

• S Specific and positive• M Measurable• A Achievable• R Realistic• T Timely• S Self Determined

• Once you determine what you want to achieve, you can determine what skills need to be developed in order to achieve those goals

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Developing a Season Plan• Establish Priorities

• There are never enough hours in a day!

• In order to achieve your goals, determine:

• What MUST be taught to achieve the desired outcomes

• What SHOULD be covered if good use is made of the available resources

• What COULD be taught if time permits

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Developing a Season Plan• Select Methods for Teaching

• Traditional Method

• Games Approach

• Modalities

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• Traditional Method

• Warm up

• Introduce new technical skill

• Practice technical skill through drills

• Scrimmage in hopes to see technical skill utilized

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• Disadvantages of Traditional Method

• Overemphasis on technical skills

• Overemphasis on direct instruction (coach centered)

• Drills do not require tactical decisions

• Drills may not keep all athletes engaged

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• Games Approach

• Counters the disadvantages of the Traditional Method

• Holistic

• Requires tactical decisions

• Keeps the athletes engaged

• Simulates game like scenarios

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• Games Approach

• Shaping play

• Focusing play

• Enhancing play

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• Games Approach

• Shaping Play• Redesign the game so that your athletes

have the opportunity to practice what is relevant in the real game.

• Four Ways to Shape Play• Change the rules• Alter the number of players• Alter the playing area• Modify the goal and the scoring

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• Games Approach

• Focusing Play• Focus attention on the key elements of the

game that are to be learned during the practice game.

• Freeze Play

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• Games Approach

• Enhancing Play

• Enhance play by presenting challenges, using handicapping techniques to make close contests and recognize progress.

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• Modalities

• No matter what method you use to teach, you must always teach using all of the modalities to insure that all of your athletes properly learn from the instruction

• Visual

• Audible

• Kinesthetic (Hands On)

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• Modalities

• Everyone learns through different methods and/or combinations of methods

• If you don't get it through to them via one method - you better back up and try teaching it through another

• If you know how each of your athletes best learns material, and you teach to that modality, you will be a better coach

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Developing a Season PlanOnce you have:

• Identified the skills your athletes need

• Gotten to know your athletes

• Analyzed your situation

• Set team and individual goals

• Established your priorities

• Selected your methods for teaching

You are ready to put everything together into your Season Plan!!

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Developing a Season Plan• Start with your goals and work your way

backwards

• Determine what you need to do in order to achieve your goals

• Set your timeline for teaching skills

• Build from the fundamentals up

• Adhere to your priorities

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Types of Plans

• Season Plan

• Weekly Plan

• Practice Plan

• Game Plan

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Why a Weekly Plan?• Use a weekly plan if you have more than one

practice per week.

• Follow your season plan and the sequence of instruction for the sport skills.

• Adjust for areas of need.

• Plan for light practices before home games and days off after tournaments.

• Give individual skills as homework.

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Developing a Weekly Plan• Elements of a Weekly Plan

• Schedule

• Practices

• Competitions

• Special events

• Other programs

• Summary of the goals you want to accomplish that week

• Summary of the skills you want to develop that week

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Types of Plans

• Season Plan

• Weekly Plan

• Practice Plan

• Game Plan

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Why a Practice Plan• The Practice Plan is the document that

summarizes what you are going to do on a given day in order to accomplish the goals of your Weekly and Season Plans.

• Developing a Practice Plan allows you to think about what you need to teach and how you want to teach it.

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Why a Practice Plan• By developing an organized Practice Plan,

you can:

• Ensure that you are properly utilizing your facility and equipment.

• Providing adequate time for warm up, stretching, water breaks and cool down.

• Teach skills in a proper sequence.

• Have a record of what instruction was given, what worked and what didn’t work.

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Why a Practice Plan• Elements of a Written Practice Plan

• Date• Practice start time• Length of practice• Practice objectives• Equipment• Climate conditions for outdoor practices• Practice activities

• Time of activity• Name of activity• Description of activity• Key teaching points

• Evaluation

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Why a Practice Plan• Wheelchair Athletes

• What needs to be added to the practice plan?

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• Season Plan

• Weekly Plan

• Practice Plan

• Game Plan

Types of Plans

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• Developing a Game Plan allows you to think about what your team needs to do to be successful.

• A Game Plan will help you focus your athlete’s attention on key elements of the game that will help to make them successful.

• A Game Plan allows you to concentrate your efforts on your team’s strengths.

• A Game Plan allows you to exploit your opponent's weaknesses.

• A Game Plan can define success in terms of progress in learning and execution, not winning and losing.

Why a Game Plan

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• Elements of a Game Plan• Focus• Objectives• Threats• Special Notes

Developing a Game Plan

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GOAL SETTING

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“If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

- Yogi Berra

Why Use Goal Setting?

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• Defines exactly what it is you want to achieve

• Used to develop the process by which you realize the achievement

• Provides the foundation for how coaches and athletes go about developing practice plans, training plans, and competition plans

Goal Setting

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• Provides a daily guide for decision making and a source of motivation

• Allows the team, the coach, and/or the individual the opportunity to set their own measures of success

Goal Setting

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• Goals should have SMARTS

• Specific and positive• Measureable• Achievable• Realistic• Timely• Self-Determined

Goal Setting

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• Outcome Goals• Define where you are going, your final destination• Typically the competitive result of an event

• Performance Goals• Define the path to your final destination• Focus on improvement relative to past

performance

• Process Goals• Work in conjunction with performance goals• Focus on task-relevant strategies, actions and

procedures• S&C program, # of daily free throws, nutrition

Categories of Goals

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“Your definition of success should have more depth than the equivalent of winning a national championship. It should be whatever passion moves you deep in your heart.”

- Coach K

Outcome Goals

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• Characteristics of Outcome Goals

• Serve a purpose when used in conjunction with performance and process goals

• Often the first and only goals novice coaches and athletes utilize

• Used as the only type of goal, can have a negative effect on performance

Outcome Goals

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• Drawbacks of Outcome Goals

• Not in complete control of athlete, team or coach

• Achievement dependent upon performance of opponents

• Not as flexible as process and performance goals

• Can lead to performance deficits in pressure situations

Outcome Goals

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• Example Outcome Goal

• Qualify for the national tournament by winning the Whitewater Regional.

• What could be some other sport related outcome goals?

Outcome Goals

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“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

- John Wooden

Outcome Goals

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“When our goal is to try to do our best, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort - instead of numbers on the scoreboard - we will never lose.”

- Coach K

Performance Goals

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• Characteristics of Performance Goals

• Achievement controllable by coach and athlete

• Opponent’s performance can aid in the achievement of performance goals

• More easily and precisely adjusted

• Can be achieved during practice and competition

Performance Goals

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• Example Team Performance Goals

• Designed to achieve the outcome of winning a Regional Qualifying Tournament

• Performance goals for each game

• Make ≥ 75% free throws• Shoot ≥ 50% from floor• ≤ 6 unforced turnovers• Hold opponent to ≤ 40% shooting• ≥10 second chance points• ≥ + 10 rebounding• ≥ + 10 points bench scoring

Performance Goals

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“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

- John Wooden

Process Goals

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• Characteristics of Process Goals

• Stepping stones to achieving performance goals

• Where you plan the work and work the plan

• Help maintain an awareness of the technical and tactical aspects of the game

• Can aid in getting into the “Zone”

• Can increase self-efficacy and confidence while at the same time reducing cognitive anxiety

Process Goals

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• Performance Goal: Make ≥ 75% free throws

• Process Goals to Achieve Performance Goal• Shoot 100 consecutive FTs/Day

• Develops consistent form

• Shoot 100 game like FTs/Day

• Shoot in fatigued state

• Chart results

Process Goals

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• Goal Setting for Success

• Utilize Desired Outcomes, Performance and Process Goals as part of a complete goal setting program

Putting it All Together

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• Know when to focus on each category of goals

• Outcome Goals

• Can be used as a short-term motivator away from competition

• Should not be a focus during competition

• Can be a measure of the success of performance and process goals


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• Performance Goals

• Can be adjusted up or down based on performance

• Change process goals accordingly

• Used to achieve your ultimate potential

• When properly set and achieved will lead to the achievement of outcome goals


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• Process Goals

• Can be used to learn new skills, maintain focus and develop awareness

• Set the daily plan to ultimately achieve performance and outcome goals

• Provide daily motivation to stay on task


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• Skills and strategies must be learned and practiced in order to realize the benefits of performance and process goals

• Mental Skills Training

• Strength and Conditioning

• Nutrition

• Time Management


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• Put Outcome Goals in their proper place

• Result of achieving well defined and planned process and performance goals

• Center your coaching philosophy and goal setting program on continual improvement through achievement of performance and process goals


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• Take pride in measures of success that are defined by continual improvement, performance enhancement, and reaching your ultimate potential

• Results in an atmosphere that is not only fun and positive, but one where success will be realized in the form of achieving outcome goals


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QUESTIONS???

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