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5 outcomes in order - ✔✔ correct answer 1. Promotion of Learning
2. Learn to Compete
3. Enhance School Pride
4. Improve Students' Athletic Ability
5. Enhance Self-Esteem
Note This - ✔✔ correct answer It is vitally important that teacher/coaches remember that a
developmentally appropriate experience is one that is consistent with the ability and maturity of the
student. Students, even in high school, are not miniature adults. This simple, but important recognition
will significantly reduce or remove a great deal of frustration you may experience, particularly when
coaching middle school-aged children.
Remember, if your students do not look like professional athletes, such as LeBron James and Alex
Morgan, do not expect them to understand the game or play like LeBron or Alex! This may seem obvious,
but often teacher/coaches' expectations are inconsistent with their students' stage of cognitive, motor-
skill, psychological and/or physical development.
Note This - ✔✔ correct answer While the physical and motor-skill development characteristics of
students are relatively easy to assess, see, and measure, cognitive and psychological development
characteristics are less obvious.
Teacher/coaches need some understanding of key development issues to be able to maximize their
students' learning and development.
Consider these questions:
- Will the student understand what I say?
- How many coaching points will he/she be able to take in?
Note This - ✔✔ correct answer Clearly, knowing the answer to these questions will assist
teacher/coaches in planning practice sessions, and thus optimize learning and enjoyment.
In addition, it is important that interscholastic teacher/coaches have knowledge of psychological
development. This knowledge will provide the basis for understanding:
- How and why students are likely to react in different situations
,High School Coaching Test
- The psychological demands sport places on participants, and its powerful psychological effects on
them
You must also be aware of the effects your behavior has on students. Such issues are important to
consider at all times.
Note This - Teacher Influence - ✔✔ correct answer U.S. author, autobiographer, and historian Henry
Adams stated that,
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where
his influence stops."
The same applies for teacher/coaches. It is widely accepted that teacher/coaches hold the key to the
positive or negative outcomes of the interscholastic athletic experience.
Teachers/coaches are truly the delivery system for all that is positive, and at times negative, about the
interscholastic athletic experience.
In order to create a developmentally appropriate experience, the teacher/coach must consider which of
the following questions? - ✔✔ correct answer 1. Will the student understand what I say?
2. How many coaching points will the students be able to take in?
3. How are the students likely to react in this situation?
Note This - 1972 Title IX - ✔✔ correct answer The single-most dramatic change in the world of
interscholastic athletics occurred after the U.S. Congress passed Title IX of the Educational Amendments
of 1972.
Title IX declared that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational
program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
Millions of girls have benefitted from this piece of federal legislation. Although girls still do not receive
an equal share of athletic resources in all communities, the increased participation clearly has been a
result of new opportunities.
,High School Coaching Test
- ✔✔ correct answer Participating in interscholastic athletics DOES NOT automatically result in positive
or negative outcomes.
Sports are not in and of themselves, educational.
However, they do support educational goals.
- ✔✔ correct answer When structured appropriately, athletics teach students skills that contribute to
OVERALL DEVELOPMENT
Note This - ✔✔ correct answer Initially, sport became part of our nation's schools to address four
societal concerns:
1. Education
The lessons learned in athletic practice and competition were considered the primary reason for the
institutionalization of athletics in our schools. The opportunity to teach character, discipline, teamwork
and perseverance through the vehicle of athletics was promoted by education and community leaders.
2. Socialization
The capacity for athletics to foster the socialization of a diverse population in the "American Way" was
also promoted by community leaders. It was believed that as a nation of immigrants, interscholastic
athletics provided participants and families opportunities to shape and be shaped by some of the
dominant beliefs about what it was and is to be an American.
3. Military Preparedness
The physical fitness level, and therefore the ability of our nation's young men to defend our country, has
long been a source of national concern. Although John F. Kennedy is most closely associated with the
promotion of physical fitness in our schools to address this issue, this approach has long been
, High School Coaching Test
emphasized as a reason for the inclusion of athletics in our schools. It was believed that participation in
sport would instill in these young men toughness, discipline, and most importantly, an unquestioning
respect for authority.
4. Health
The physical health benefits of participation in athletics were also a strong reason for the introduction
and acceptance of athletics in our schools. The notion that a sound body went hand-in-hand with a
sound mind contributed to the growing institutionalization of athletics in our schools.
Teachable moment - ✔✔ correct answer A moment of educational opportunity when a person is most
likely to be disposed to learn something or is especially responsive to being taught or made aware of
something.
What is a teachable moment? - ✔✔ correct answer Reflective Questions:
-"What did you observe?"
-"How did the coach do?"
Teachable moments may appear at any time
Interscholastic athletics becomes part of the education process when: - ✔✔ correct answer - Learning
objectives are clearly stated
and integrated into the experience.
- Coaches purposefully plan for learning
to take place.
5 outcomes in order - ✔✔ correct answer 1. Promotion of Learning
2. Learn to Compete
3. Enhance School Pride
4. Improve Students' Athletic Ability
5. Enhance Self-Esteem
Note This - ✔✔ correct answer It is vitally important that teacher/coaches remember that a
developmentally appropriate experience is one that is consistent with the ability and maturity of the
student. Students, even in high school, are not miniature adults. This simple, but important recognition
will significantly reduce or remove a great deal of frustration you may experience, particularly when
coaching middle school-aged children.
Remember, if your students do not look like professional athletes, such as LeBron James and Alex
Morgan, do not expect them to understand the game or play like LeBron or Alex! This may seem obvious,
but often teacher/coaches' expectations are inconsistent with their students' stage of cognitive, motor-
skill, psychological and/or physical development.
Note This - ✔✔ correct answer While the physical and motor-skill development characteristics of
students are relatively easy to assess, see, and measure, cognitive and psychological development
characteristics are less obvious.
Teacher/coaches need some understanding of key development issues to be able to maximize their
students' learning and development.
Consider these questions:
- Will the student understand what I say?
- How many coaching points will he/she be able to take in?
Note This - ✔✔ correct answer Clearly, knowing the answer to these questions will assist
teacher/coaches in planning practice sessions, and thus optimize learning and enjoyment.
In addition, it is important that interscholastic teacher/coaches have knowledge of psychological
development. This knowledge will provide the basis for understanding:
- How and why students are likely to react in different situations
,High School Coaching Test
- The psychological demands sport places on participants, and its powerful psychological effects on
them
You must also be aware of the effects your behavior has on students. Such issues are important to
consider at all times.
Note This - Teacher Influence - ✔✔ correct answer U.S. author, autobiographer, and historian Henry
Adams stated that,
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where
his influence stops."
The same applies for teacher/coaches. It is widely accepted that teacher/coaches hold the key to the
positive or negative outcomes of the interscholastic athletic experience.
Teachers/coaches are truly the delivery system for all that is positive, and at times negative, about the
interscholastic athletic experience.
In order to create a developmentally appropriate experience, the teacher/coach must consider which of
the following questions? - ✔✔ correct answer 1. Will the student understand what I say?
2. How many coaching points will the students be able to take in?
3. How are the students likely to react in this situation?
Note This - 1972 Title IX - ✔✔ correct answer The single-most dramatic change in the world of
interscholastic athletics occurred after the U.S. Congress passed Title IX of the Educational Amendments
of 1972.
Title IX declared that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational
program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
Millions of girls have benefitted from this piece of federal legislation. Although girls still do not receive
an equal share of athletic resources in all communities, the increased participation clearly has been a
result of new opportunities.
,High School Coaching Test
- ✔✔ correct answer Participating in interscholastic athletics DOES NOT automatically result in positive
or negative outcomes.
Sports are not in and of themselves, educational.
However, they do support educational goals.
- ✔✔ correct answer When structured appropriately, athletics teach students skills that contribute to
OVERALL DEVELOPMENT
Note This - ✔✔ correct answer Initially, sport became part of our nation's schools to address four
societal concerns:
1. Education
The lessons learned in athletic practice and competition were considered the primary reason for the
institutionalization of athletics in our schools. The opportunity to teach character, discipline, teamwork
and perseverance through the vehicle of athletics was promoted by education and community leaders.
2. Socialization
The capacity for athletics to foster the socialization of a diverse population in the "American Way" was
also promoted by community leaders. It was believed that as a nation of immigrants, interscholastic
athletics provided participants and families opportunities to shape and be shaped by some of the
dominant beliefs about what it was and is to be an American.
3. Military Preparedness
The physical fitness level, and therefore the ability of our nation's young men to defend our country, has
long been a source of national concern. Although John F. Kennedy is most closely associated with the
promotion of physical fitness in our schools to address this issue, this approach has long been
, High School Coaching Test
emphasized as a reason for the inclusion of athletics in our schools. It was believed that participation in
sport would instill in these young men toughness, discipline, and most importantly, an unquestioning
respect for authority.
4. Health
The physical health benefits of participation in athletics were also a strong reason for the introduction
and acceptance of athletics in our schools. The notion that a sound body went hand-in-hand with a
sound mind contributed to the growing institutionalization of athletics in our schools.
Teachable moment - ✔✔ correct answer A moment of educational opportunity when a person is most
likely to be disposed to learn something or is especially responsive to being taught or made aware of
something.
What is a teachable moment? - ✔✔ correct answer Reflective Questions:
-"What did you observe?"
-"How did the coach do?"
Teachable moments may appear at any time
Interscholastic athletics becomes part of the education process when: - ✔✔ correct answer - Learning
objectives are clearly stated
and integrated into the experience.
- Coaches purposefully plan for learning
to take place.
