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The Planning a Practice module will give you the skills to:

• organize a well-structured practice plan with safe, age-appropriate activities you’ve designed to match the proficiency level of participants;
• identify potential risk factors that could impact the sport and practice activities;
• identify practice goals and design activities that offer the best training benefits for the athletic skills required in your sport.

By successfully completing the Make Ethical Decisions workshop you will be fully equipped to handle virtually any ethical situation with confidence and surety.

MED is one of the NCCP’s cornerstone workshops, and leaves coaches with no doubt as to what to do when the going gets tough.

Design a Basic Sport Program will teach you to:

• create a sound outline for your sport program that includes competition and training events;
• compare your program to those outlined by the NCCP in terms of long-term athlete development;
• assess the athletic development opportunities your program offers, and identify ways to remedy any weaknesses

Core Training for Learning Facilitators is a 6-hour workshop that all Learning Facilitator candidates must take. The workshop introduces Learning Facilitator candidates to the goals and philosophy of the NCCP, teaches them how to facilitate modules, and helps them understand the instructional design of the modules.

By successfully completing the Make Ethical Decisions workshop you will be fully equipped to handle virtually any ethical situation with confidence and surety.

MED is one of the NCCP’s cornerstone workshops, and leaves coaches with no doubt as to what to do when the going gets tough.

The Planning a Practice module will give you the skills to:

• organize a well-structured practice plan with safe, age-appropriate activities you’ve designed to match the proficiency level of participants;
• identify potential risk factors that could impact the sport and practice activities;
• identify practice goals and design activities that offer the best training benefits for the athletic skills required in your sport.

The Basic Mental Skills module gives you the ability to:

• recognize signs indicating that an athlete may need to improve his/her goal setting, focus, and anxiety control skills; and develop tools to help the athlete to make improvements in these areas;
• run simple guided activities that help athletes improve basic mental skills.

The Coaching and Leading Effectively module gives you the skills needed to:

• promote a positive image of sport, and model it to athletes and those supporting their performance;
• deliver clear messages and explanations when communicating with athletes and their supporters;
• identify opportunities to interact with all athletes and use feedback to improve and correct performance and behaviour.