This week for the Smart Coaching series, Keith Grabowski, Dr. Gearity and Dr. Kucklic talk about practice planning. They go to the research and explore some of the history on different types of practice and the different outcomes produced. They explore what’s effective and what creativity coaches can use to plan some innovative practices with less redundancy.

Show Notes:

02:36 The literature on practice planning

03:05 Developing different objectives

06:00 Effective instruction

07:35 Evolving the objectives

09:15 Variation in repetition

11:33 Work on your own

14:30 Peer-to-peer coaching

15:00 Coach’s role

16:50 Engage the learner in the learning process

20:25 Working with groups

21:20 Small-sided games

24:15 Add rules and constraints

27:15 Building upon drills to help the players

29:10 Changing the environment

30:00 How many reps do we need

31:10 Discipline and surveillance

33:20 How to change things

36:10 Positives in variation

38:00 Assessing the practice

39:30 2-minute test out

41:05 Technique checklist

41:30 Check for understanding

43:26 Video Analysis

 

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