COACHING PRINCIPLES TEST 1
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ What is the regular definition of coaching?
Answer: Support an athlete/team in achieving a specific individual
or team goal
◉ What is your why?
Answer: A solid motivational foundation that is necessary for
enduring the trials, tribulations, and joys of the coaching profession
◉ What are 3 things that a coach does?
Answer: Teacher
Strategist
Recruiter
◉ What is the professional preparation for coaches known as?
Answer: The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation, & Dance
◉ Is coaching considered a profession?
,Answer: coaching remains far from meeting the criteria for
becoming a profession
◉ What are the 3 basic elements of effective coaches?
Answer: Knowledge of the sport and how to teach it
Knowledge of the athletes and how to tailor coaching to meet their
unique needs and profiles
Knowledge of self and have an eagerness to constantly reflect and
evolve
◉ What are the 6 core coaching competencies?
Answer: 1. Setting vision, goals, and standards
2. Shaping the environment
3. Building relationships
4. Conducting practices and preparing for competitions
5. Reading and reacting to the field
,6. Reflect on and learn from one's own actions
◉ How do you determine what coaching level is a good fit for you?
Answer: Participation sport settings or performance sport settings?
◉ What is a coaching philosophy?
Answer: The basic beliefs and principles that influence and guide
our everyday actions, specific sport-related behaviors, and clarify
many of the difficult aspects of the coach's job
◉ Who should have a coaching philosophy?
Answer: All coaches -- head coach, assistant coaches, volunteer
coaches
◉ What is the benefit of having a written down coaching
philosophy?
Answer: The process to rely on when it gets hard
Enables consistent and positive messages; builds trust
◉ Can your coaching philosophy change?
Answer: A coaching philosophy is dynamic, evolving, and contextual
, ◉ What are three necessities needed to develop a sound coaching
philosophy?
Answer: 1. Know yourself
2. Know the contextual factors (institution, culture, participation v.
performance)
3. Know your athletes and their goals
◉ What are 6 things that you as a coach should know about
yourself?
Answer: Strengths
Areas of improvement
Personality
Morals / Ethical Mindset
Beliefs & Mindset
Values
◉ What are values?
Answer: The lenses through which you view yourself and the world
The basis of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ What is the regular definition of coaching?
Answer: Support an athlete/team in achieving a specific individual
or team goal
◉ What is your why?
Answer: A solid motivational foundation that is necessary for
enduring the trials, tribulations, and joys of the coaching profession
◉ What are 3 things that a coach does?
Answer: Teacher
Strategist
Recruiter
◉ What is the professional preparation for coaches known as?
Answer: The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation, & Dance
◉ Is coaching considered a profession?
,Answer: coaching remains far from meeting the criteria for
becoming a profession
◉ What are the 3 basic elements of effective coaches?
Answer: Knowledge of the sport and how to teach it
Knowledge of the athletes and how to tailor coaching to meet their
unique needs and profiles
Knowledge of self and have an eagerness to constantly reflect and
evolve
◉ What are the 6 core coaching competencies?
Answer: 1. Setting vision, goals, and standards
2. Shaping the environment
3. Building relationships
4. Conducting practices and preparing for competitions
5. Reading and reacting to the field
,6. Reflect on and learn from one's own actions
◉ How do you determine what coaching level is a good fit for you?
Answer: Participation sport settings or performance sport settings?
◉ What is a coaching philosophy?
Answer: The basic beliefs and principles that influence and guide
our everyday actions, specific sport-related behaviors, and clarify
many of the difficult aspects of the coach's job
◉ Who should have a coaching philosophy?
Answer: All coaches -- head coach, assistant coaches, volunteer
coaches
◉ What is the benefit of having a written down coaching
philosophy?
Answer: The process to rely on when it gets hard
Enables consistent and positive messages; builds trust
◉ Can your coaching philosophy change?
Answer: A coaching philosophy is dynamic, evolving, and contextual
, ◉ What are three necessities needed to develop a sound coaching
philosophy?
Answer: 1. Know yourself
2. Know the contextual factors (institution, culture, participation v.
performance)
3. Know your athletes and their goals
◉ What are 6 things that you as a coach should know about
yourself?
Answer: Strengths
Areas of improvement
Personality
Morals / Ethical Mindset
Beliefs & Mindset
Values
◉ What are values?
Answer: The lenses through which you view yourself and the world
The basis of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
