Hello all
I'm going to write my final reflection from my experience in sports coaching pedagogy in semester 1 at UC. The footy is finished for the night and Geelong have won once again over the bomber an unfortunate win as the cats are looking to be the in form team of the year so far let hope they peak to early, for the swans sake. Now back to this subject, for me it has been a great subject to lead into the finishing of my degree because it gave me a new insight of how to look at the working world and what is ahead of me. The final video which Keith posted http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=xmpYnxlEh0c&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxmpYnxlEh0c really made me think about the things that are ahead of me how things are going to be boring but you have to get past those things and continue to think for yourself and not slack off and become another drone of the world. As the guy said in this video it isn't going to be easy and sometimes you will get sucked into what is happening around you and worrying about what other people are doing and how little it effects you but how you make it effect you n such a big way. This really is something I want to try and get rid of out of my thought process and start thinking about what new things I can do or how I can create new and exciting things.
I really hope that I am able to force myself to continue on with the blog as it really does make me think better and I am able to reflect on what is happening in my life. What I need to do is find more great articles and things to think about and reflect on. I have joined the world of twitter and it is providing me with a lot of great material
I have really started to adjust to the life of social media and I am embracing it. I joined twitter in the last month and am like how it works and how news is transferred via it. Although at the moment I am mostly following AFL, NBA and Football teams, players and their competitions themselves I'm sure ill come along better things to follow as time goes on.
One of the big things that has been happening in the twitter world well the world altogether is the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson one of the greatest football managers of all time, a legend of his era. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/10048642/David-Moyes-appointed-as-Manchester-United-manager-to-succeed-Sir-Alex-Ferguson-live-reaction.html Now this made me think about what Ferguson would do in his free time and I bet he doesn't give in to worrying about what boring things people are doing around him. His mind would be constantly thinking about what is happening n his club and how he can better improve his squad. This is the reason he got so far and stayed at the top of his proffession. So now it's time for me to do the same and hey maybe one day ill fe myself managing a club like Manchester United, we can only hope.
Thanks for all the interesting posts it has been a wonderful experience learning from Wagga with you Keith and ill be sure to follow you on twitter and keep my mind open.
Danie Scroope.
Friday 10 May 2013
Sunday 5 May 2013
LTAD Canada v Australia
Hello again
I have been reading though the long term athlete development model notes in which Keith put up and found them very interesting. I went back and compared them to my virtual presentation notes which I did on Istvan Balyi's model of long term athlete development. I was happy to see that a lot of the resources which were used I went over in my presentation. The piece in which I found most interesting was http://www.canadiansportforlife.ca/ which is a Canadian website based around this LTAD model which Balyi has created.
The website itself is a great resource for parents, teachers, coaches and all other stakeholders involved in the development of our younger generation. It provides physical literacy guidelines, specific sports program's and even links as to what different physical events might be on in your area. I think this website is an absolutely great tool for everyone and more countries need to copy Canada's approach to LTAD.
The question which ponders on my mind is how can we do this I know Australia is trying to adopt this same kind of model and giving out these same sorts of resources. But is it as well known about? The Australian government has started it's initiative of Active After School which is a great idea and I have taken a few of these classes myself back in Wagga. The only thing I think that fails this program is I believe a lot of parents are only using this program as a means of free babysitting time. How i think it can improve is if these types of initiatives have more parental support. The last point I will make is that I also believe that there should be more compulsory Physical education within class time thought primary and high school. Australia's Olympic chief John Coats https://theconversation.com/coates-olympic-school-push-do-we-need-more-sport-in-curriculum-8781 explained the need for a change in physical education not only to improve our international sports identity but for the greater good of health in general.
Thanks for reading once again.
Daniel Scroope
I have been reading though the long term athlete development model notes in which Keith put up and found them very interesting. I went back and compared them to my virtual presentation notes which I did on Istvan Balyi's model of long term athlete development. I was happy to see that a lot of the resources which were used I went over in my presentation. The piece in which I found most interesting was http://www.canadiansportforlife.ca/ which is a Canadian website based around this LTAD model which Balyi has created.
The website itself is a great resource for parents, teachers, coaches and all other stakeholders involved in the development of our younger generation. It provides physical literacy guidelines, specific sports program's and even links as to what different physical events might be on in your area. I think this website is an absolutely great tool for everyone and more countries need to copy Canada's approach to LTAD.
The question which ponders on my mind is how can we do this I know Australia is trying to adopt this same kind of model and giving out these same sorts of resources. But is it as well known about? The Australian government has started it's initiative of Active After School which is a great idea and I have taken a few of these classes myself back in Wagga. The only thing I think that fails this program is I believe a lot of parents are only using this program as a means of free babysitting time. How i think it can improve is if these types of initiatives have more parental support. The last point I will make is that I also believe that there should be more compulsory Physical education within class time thought primary and high school. Australia's Olympic chief John Coats https://theconversation.com/coates-olympic-school-push-do-we-need-more-sport-in-curriculum-8781 explained the need for a change in physical education not only to improve our international sports identity but for the greater good of health in general.
Thanks for reading once again.
Daniel Scroope
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