Education | Coaching Framework for CPD
Scottish Gymnastics has published its coaching framework which guides how we provide education and resources for coaches across all levels.
The framework is designed to inspire and support your professional development, so you feel educated, confident and empowered to carry out your role effectively and safely. It brings together the different elements of gymnast-centred coaching: the process, behaviour, physical skills and technical ability.
Coaches have told us in consultations and surveys that they want to learn more about coaching practice. We have incorporated this as a key area in our Leap without Limits strategy which focusses on an uplifting gymnastics experience for all.
The programme of professional development centres on coaching practice to complement discipline specific technical skills in formal education courses. The programme is a mix of online and in-person workshops with signposts to relevant external courses, so members can access learning when it suits them.
New Courses Available
Three new courses have been added to the programme: playful learning; neurodiversity in gymnastics; and facing the grey – ethical coaching practice. We will continue to add new learning over the coming months and years.
Learning and development lead manager Jay Runga said: “The coaching framework gives us a structure of how we design CPD so we are not reactive and have a focussed approach to delivering what is important to coaches.
“We consulted sportscotland, British Gymnastics and other sports based on the demand from coaching surveys and the Shape our Future strategy consultation. This has given us a plan for the next few years centred on behavioural, physical, technical and process – aspects of coaching which fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces.
“We want to make sure you have a choice to develop in the area you need to. We know you’re busy and you cannot do everything at once, and so we’re honing down the choices to streamlined learning for gymnastics. We’ve distilled this into face-to-face and online so it will suit your working life.”
Head of sport Sam Hendrikson added: “Sports coaching and learning and development is ever-changing. The need to connect with gymnasts and parents is stronger than ever. It may have been 20 years since you last sat a formal coaching qualification, when you would have been coaching millennials and generation Z. Most of our members are under the age of 13 which makes them generation alpha. And each generation is different!
“Our courses are really about moving forward in line with changes in society. Play is going to feature increasingly in gymnastics as we know it’s the number one way in which children learn. We hope you will enjoy the opportunities to supplement your formal learning and enjoy being the best coach you can be.”
You can find out more about our framework, workshops and online courses and how to access learning in the members’ area of our website.