Resources
Craig has spent more than 30 years coaching athletes and mentoring coaches.
This section shares ideas, insights and practical coaching concepts drawn from that experience.
Start Here
The ‘Coaching is Teaching Series’
Coaching is Teaching
What Do You Notice?
Hook ’Em In
Start With the Game
Let Them Explore
Shape the Environment
Coaching Behaviour Matters
Keeping Kids in Sport
If you are new to Craig’s ideas, these articles provide a clear introduction to the core principles that underpin his approach to coaching and learning in sport.
Together they form the Coaching is Teaching series.
Coaching Philosophy
Ideas about how learning happens in sport and why coaching is teaching.
Game-Based Coaching
Practical ideas for designing training environments where athletes learn through play
Coaching Behaviour
How coaches influence learning through their behaviour, questioning and session design.
Youth Sport & Participation
Creating environments where young athletes enjoy sport and continue participating.
Do YOU think YOU engage? Do they still WONDER?
I know these two well! Must have been 10 years ago... Enjoying Dorothy the Dinosaur or others from the Wiggles. I use this slide often when presenting on learning: 'The WONDER'!!! Do you think they are engaged? HOW & WHY do they lose the WONDER??? Game Sense, CLA, Direct Instruction...etc ENGAGE!!! Get to know the UNIQUE learner in each UNIQUE experience and then begin learning together...
