Welcome to my Blog

Hello and welcome to my blog post, my name is Rob Boardman and I am going to be sharing my ideas on coaching and reflecting on my coaching journey. My coaching background is that I have had experience with coaching in primary schools and secondary schools, delivering fun sessions, which aid the basic fundamental skills, A,B and C’s, and also delivered coach education workshops to students.

I enjoy coaching because it gives me a chance to get across my ideas and teaching young children sports that they enjoy doing. Furthermore, I enjoy the challenges that come alongside with coaching young children as they are all different therefore new challenges come everyday and having to think of ways to overcome these difficulties is something I enjoy doing.

Strengths

• Communication- I feel I am good at breaking down activities to it’s simplest form meaning everyone can understand the task
• Session planning- I provide fun themed games to aid development of the basic A,B,C’s to young participants
• Time management- I always plan the session to last the duration it is meant to do and it doesn’t run over or finish too early.

Areas for development

• Positive attitude- As I sometimes feel like I need to be more positive if a drill isn’t planning out the way it should be or if the participants aren’t performing it as well as perceived
• Patience- This is because if someone goes wrong I find it frustrating, where as I should understand and try to find ways to improve the session to make it suit the participants

Aspirations for after the course

After I have finish my second year of the foundation degree I will continue to UCLAN and do my top up year to complete the full degree. Following on from this I will aim to do my teacher training and my PGCE and to then become a fully qualified teacher. During this year and my final study year I will be looking at work placements in schools, this may be difficult this year due to the current pandemic as schools may not allow external people to enter, as I feel this will be my knowledge as a coach and then give me more experience of what a teaching role will look like.