Coaching for Character
The Games Approach/ Practice Planning
Teaching Technical Skills
Tactical Skills & Decision Making
Potpourri
100

This refers to moral or ethical qualities that society admires.

What is character?

100

This approach focuses on gamelike learning situations to build decision-making.

What is the games approach?

100

This is the first stage of learning where understanding begins.

What is the mental stage?

100

A basketball player deciding whether to shoot a layup or pull up to shoot a jump shot would be an example of this type of skill.

What is a tactical skill?

100

The games approach places this part of the team first.

Who are the athletes?

200

Making a teammate behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way is an example of this.

What is hazing?

200

Problems that might occur with this approach to practice include boredom and limited skill transfer to games.

What is the traditional approach?

200

This is the learning stage, which describes performance becoming smooth.

What is the automatic stage?

200

Observing others, variable practice, and asking questions are methods for teaching these types of skills.

What are decision-making skills?

200

This training principle that says that athletes must do more than what their bodies are used to doing.

What is the overload principle?

300

Character in action during competition is called this.

What is sportsmanship?

300

This form of play centers an athlete's attention on key elements of the game.

What is focusing play?

300

This is defined as being able to execute the techniques required at the right time and place proficiently.

What are skills?

300

This model includes reading the situation, tactical knowledge, and decision-making.

What is the tactical triangle?

300

The combination of strength and speed is known as this.

What is muscular power?

400

These are human skills, including moral values, that enable young people to function as effective citizens within society.

What are life skills?

400

The date/time, goals, drills, warm-up, and cool-down are elements that should be present in this document.

What is a practice plan?

400

This stage of learning emphasizes repetition to refine technique.

What is the practice stage of learning?

400

Not to be confused with tactical skills, this type of skill requires specific procedures to move one’s body to perform the task that needs to be accomplished

What are technical skills?

400

This is the ability of a muscle to repeatedly contract or to sustain contraction.

What is muscular endurance?

500

This involves doing an activity to gain outcomes or rewards beyond the activity itself.

What is extrinsic motivation?

500

This type of skill must be evaluated based on athlete readiness and importance.

What is a priority skill?

500

This teaching method practices the full technique while emphasizing one part.

What is the attention-focus method?

500

A plan of action for a season or a series of games or contests refers to this.

What is a strategy?

500

This states that athletes must be given sufficient time between training sessions to rest and restore their bodies and minds.

What is the principle of recovery?