The FA Youth Award will consist of three modules. Module one will look specifically at developing the right environment for the 5-11 year old player to learn and develop. Module two will look at developing and understanding practice and module three will focus more upon the development of the player across the whole spectrum of their development (from 5-20 years).
This is a very brief synopsis as modules two and three are still in the development stage but to wet your appetite I will now expand upon the content for the module one:
This course is 32 hours long and is nonassessed. The focus is very much upon the developing child and how best to create and maintain the right environment for development. There are modules that look at “How Players Learn”, “Managing Mistakes”, “Self-Esteem” and “Motivation”.
There is pre-course reading around the “Physical development of the young player”. All of the workshops are then brought to life by the suggested practical activities that show how this new approach will work out on the training ground
and pitch.
In addition, there are a number of activities that focus upon the physical development of the young player and examples of how to incorporate the important FUNdamentals of movement
into your warm-ups. Coaches who attend will also get the chance to try out some of the practical games under the watchful eye of the tutor ready to take the game back to their teams.
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