Hey guys Gina here again. Today i want to share my experience with coaching the year 9's . I only coached one time due to me being absent most days. But my first time coaching was with my team partner Eakalafi. I really liked the team that Eakalafi and I were coaching because they were listening and being really respectful towards us.
What Eakalafi did was get the juniors to do a ball passing and running exercise whilst the court was getting set up for a few games of ultra rip. I didn't coach much because Mr Paul told me to watch Eakalafi so I know what to do. Before the game of ultra rip he got the team to play a game called shadow. After the game of shadow, Eakalafi called all the students in to get in a circle. He made up a rule which was "if you're the last person in the circle you have to sing a song for 10 seconds." Anyways, Eakalafi explained to them what they needed to do in the game, we showed a demonstration on how it was played. After the demonstration we put the students in to two different teams. We then got them to start playing. Eakalafi and I were quite surprised with how the juniors were behaving only because we thought they were going to play up and start being naughty. Sometimes I wonder they were behaving only because they were scared of Eakalafi due to him being a very big guy.
In the end everyone enjoyed their game, they had fun playing the game and they enjoyed having eakalafi as a coach for them. There was a few problems though like one of the juniors who weren't listening but that ended up getting sorted out anyways.
Hey Gina,
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you've found time to reflect on your experience with the Y9 students. Coaching can be hard, your post made me think about how I interact with students- I think I may need to reflect more. Do you think you'll continue coaching? Is it something you've thought about doing more of? It would be great to see photos or maybe some diagrams to go alongside this post, just to help the reader really understand what you guys were doing.
Thanks for sharing your post and thoughts, can't wait to see more.
James
Kia orana Gina,
ReplyDeleteI am working with Angela and Mr Paul to get blogging and commenting happening.
Sounds like you had a great person in Eakalafi to learn from in regards to coaching. I'm impressed that there is respect for him. What do you think helped the students to have respect for you both?
Maira
Kia orana Gina
ReplyDeletemust of been fun coaching the year 9s. hope your alright from be absent keep up with the blogging (y)
Hi Gina
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you had fun coaching the year 9s. I hope your alright since you were absent and keep it up with the blogging.
Kia ora Gina,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your coaching reflection on your blog. Great to hear that your team were respectful and listened well. I would like to ask the same question as Maria, what do you think made the students respectful to you? What did you learn about coaching by watching Eakalafi? Do you think you'll be ready to take on a greater coaching role next time?
Tania