Practical Coaching Activity
Category: Sport Skills · 4-page printable PDF · Ages 7-8, 9-10 · Free for ConnectedPE members
The capstone coaching task: students design and deliver a short drill or minor game to their peers, then reflect on how it landed. The four-page pack scaffolds all three phases — planning (objective, organisation, equipment, cues), delivery (instruction, demonstration, feedback), and structured reflection on what worked and what they'd change.
Standing in front of a group with a plan is where coaching theory becomes real. Students discover the gap between the session in their head and the session on the floor — instructions that made sense on paper, transitions that ate half the time — and the reflection turns those discoveries into learning rather than embarrassment.
Years 7–10, any sport or skill. Run it as the assessment piece of a coaching unit after Observation, Styles Role Play and the Feedback activity have built the toolkit — or use it standalone to develop leadership, communication and empathy for what their own teachers and coaches do every lesson.
What students learn
Students plan, deliver, and reflect on a short coaching session for peers, demonstrating clear instruction, effective demonstration, and feedback skills.
Topics: Coaching, Session Planning, Peer Teaching, Practical Activity, Reflection
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