Session Coach - Agecroft
Category: Qualifications
Course Provider: NGB
Course Location: Agecroft Rowing Club, Agecroft Rowing Club, Water Sports Centre, 15 The Quays, Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester, M50 2SG
Start Date: Saturday, 22nd October 2022
Start Time: 09:00
Booking Deadline: Friday, 30th September 2022
Event Detail:
Where: Agecroft Rowing Club
When: 22nd and 23rd October, and 6th November 2022
Time: 20 hours of face-to-face tutoring and internal assessments.
Cost: £249.00
Description:
If you are someone who would like to support your club with coaching the occasional session, assisting or supporting a Learn to Row course, you might want to consider doing a UKCC Level 2 Award in Coaching Sessions.
The Session Coach is a qualification that replaces our previously released ‘Learn to Row Instructor’ and it ensures that our coaches are supported and trained to the best possible standard. Accredited by 1st4Sport, the UKCC qualification pathway provides a framework which will enable you to take your passion for rowing and use it to support and develop all rowers through skills based sessions.
The Session Coach Award is the first award for coaching individuals on the water and is aimed at beginner coaches who will be supporting Club Coaches with their delivering their sessions.
What will I get out of it?
As a Session Coach Award holder you will be qualified plan and deliver rowing coaching sessions for participants independently as part of a sport/activity programme.
Who can attend?
Anyone over 16 years of age wanting to develop their coaching skills.
You must be 16 at the time of booking. On completion of the course, if you are not yet 18, you will be given a official notification as evidence of completion of the training, and then you will be certificated on your 18th birthday. The certificate will be automatically generated for you then, and sent to you directly. Until you are 18, you must be supervised during all coaching activities, for further guidance please see this document.
Attached to the booking email is a parental consent form, please ensure this is completed and returned to British Rowing as soon as possible, please also bring a copy with you to the course. It is required in order for you to attend the course.
In addition to this you must be or become a British Rowing registered member. Non-members can apply online for instant registration (England and Wales)
How is the course structured?
It focuses on developing three areas:
- Managing Risk
- Planning for activity and fitness
- Skill Development
The course is balanced with both theory and practical, with a focus on delivering skills based sessions.
How do I apply?
Step 1
Complete the two online courses, available free of charge on RowHow:
Don’t forget to save these certificates and upload them to your profile, you will need to do this in order to book!
Step 2
Register on a Session Coach course.
After completing two days of face to face learning you are then encouraged to practise your coaching skill back at your club or centre.
A coaching assessment will take place on the third day of your face to face learning, and will include an observation by an assessor, and a feedback and action plan agreed for your ongoing development.
Event State: Complete