SISSSCO012Coach sport participants up to an intermediate level

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What an assessment for SISSSCO012 must cover

76 assessable components: 5 elements (23 performance criteria), 1 performance evidence and 48 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 4 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Plan sport-specific sessions for participants up to an intermediate level.

  • 1.1Gather and review sport-specific participant information to assess developmental readiness of participants up to an intermediate level.
  • 1.2Set sport-specific session objectives to meet developmental readiness of participants up to an intermediate level.
  • 1.3Determine session content to address sport-specific session objectives.
  • 1.4Select coaching practices to meet sport-specific session objectives.
  • 1.5Develop and document sport-specific session plans for participants up to an intermediate level.

2 Prepare sport-specific sessions for participants up to an intermediate level.

  • 2.1Prepare facilities, equipment and resources to meet sport-specific session plan requirements.
  • 2.2Select and set up equipment for safe use by participants up to an intermediate level.
  • 2.3Identify hazards, assess risks and implement risk control strategies to minimise risk to safety of participants up to an intermediate level.

3 Conduct sport-specific sessions for participants up to an intermediate level.

  • 3.1Communicate and confirm understanding of sport-specific session activity instructions and safe participation requirements of participants up to an intermediate level.
  • 3.2Present, sequence and pace sport-specific session activities according to sport-specific session plans.
  • 3.3Select and use communication styles to achieve sport-specific session objectives.
  • 3.4Observe practice of participants up to an intermediate level to assess participant ability to perform activities.
  • 3.5Modify sport-specific session activities as required to meet needs of participants up to an intermediate level and environmental conditions.
  • 3.6Monitor sport-specific sessions to identify and address risks to safety of participants up to an intermediate level.
  • 3.7Analyse participant performance and provide feedback to participants to improve performance.
  • 3.8Conduct end of sport-specific session review to evaluate sport-specific session plan and inform future sport-specific session planning processes.

4 Promote good behaviour.

  • 4.1Communicate and model sport-specific participation behaviour standards.
  • 4.2Monitor participation to identify poor behaviour.
  • 4.3Use behaviour management strategies to address participant poor behaviour in accordance with organisational policies and procedures.

5 Reflect on coaching practice.

  • 5.1Seek feedback from others to identify areas to improve own sport-specific coaching practice of participants up to an intermediate level.
  • 5.2Reflect on own sport-specific coaching practice of participants up to an intermediate level to identify areas for improvement.
  • 5.3Analyse findings and incorporate learnings in future sport-specific sessions with participants up to an intermediate level.
  • 5.4Seek opportunities to address identified professional development needs.

Performance evidence

  • Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and: plan, conduct and review sport-specific sessions for participants up to an intermediate level on three occasions for a duration of at least 30 minutes each.

Knowledge evidence

  • organisational policies and procedures applicable to coaching participants up to an intermediate level in a specific sport
  • tactical and technical fundamentals of a specific sport for participants up to an intermediate level
  • analysis of movement for participants up to an intermediate level in a specific sport
  • modifying activities for participants up to an intermediate level in a specific sport:
  • regress activities
  • progress activities
  • organisational layout of sport-specific activities
  • types of competitions and pathways for participants up to an intermediate level in a specific sport
  • sport-specific rules, regulations and policies applicable to coaching participants up to an intermediate level
  • roles and responsibilities of sport-specific coaches and officials applicable to participants up to an intermediate level
  • sport-specific session planning for participants up to an intermediate level:
  • session objectives
  • progression and regression activities and modified games
  • activities inclusive of all participants
  • designing activities that require participants to think and make meaningful decisions about sport-specific situations
  • linking sessions to develop and progress skills
  • group organisation
  • sport-specific equipment and resources:
  • selection
  • safe set-up and layout
  • safe condition
  • safe use
  • sport-specific safe participation requirements for participants up to an intermediate level:
  • obeying the rules
  • use of protective equipment
  • hydration
  • contemporary coaching practices
  • coaching communication styles:
  • direct instruction
  • indirect instruction
  • demonstration
  • position of coach
  • problem solving
  • active listening
  • open and closed questions
  • non verbal communication
  • giving and receiving feedback
  • tone and level of voice
  • terminology and language
  • managing poor behaviour:
  • establishing behaviour standards
  • promoting cooperation and good relationships
  • common causes of poor behaviour of participants up to an intermediate level
  • methods of observation and feedback during sport-specific sessions with participants up to an intermediate level:
  • how, what and when to observe
  • timing of feedback
  • sport-specific session review processes
  • methods for self reflection.

Foundation skills

  • Reading: interpret sport-specific session plans, interpret documents that describe sport-specific organisational policies and procedures.
  • Writing: record attendance.
  • Oral communications: use age-appropriate language to engage participants up to an intermediate level, ask open and closed questions and actively listen to determine and meet needs of participants up to an intermediate level, interact with participants up to an intermediate level in a polite and positive manner, give sport-specific instructions to participants up to an intermediate level.
  • Numeracy: estimate time and space requirements for sport-specific session activities, manage pair and group work for odd and even numbers of participants up to an intermediate level.

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What does an assessment tool for SISSSCO012 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for SISSSCO012 needs to address all 76 unit components: 5 elements with 23 performance criteria, 1 performance evidence requirements, 48 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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