School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Fundamentals of Football Coaching
  • Unit Code

    SPS1109
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Mark SCANLAN

Description

This unit will provide students with the knowledge and skills to prepare, plan and organise appropriate training sessions for football players (including both soccer and Australian rules football). It focuses on the development of players’ individual skills, basic team strategies/tactics and the rules of the game.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Plan, organise and communicate training sessions to improve basic football techniques and tactics.
  2. Apply fundamental biomechanical and skill acquisition principles when developing football coaching strategies.
  3. Use knowledge of the rules of football to inform coaching practice.
  4. Collaborate with peers to evaluate and improve personal coaching behaviours.

Unit Content

  1. The natural development of football players.
  2. Football coaching methodologies.
  3. Coaching more creative players from the grassroots level.
  4. Individual and team skills in playing football.
  5. Knowledge of the playing rules and strategies of football.
  6. Analysis of biomechanical techniques for the purpose of effective teaching and coaching.
  7. Conditioning for developing football players.
  8. Practical sessions which enable students to plan training routines in a sound logical manner.
  9. Basic small sided games to develop players' game intelligence.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars and performance laboratories introduce students to teamwork principles. Practical performance assessment tasks will include planning and conducting coaching sessions

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PerformancePractical exercise60%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Fundamentals of Football Coaching
  • Unit Code

    SPS1109
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Mark SCANLAN

Description

This unit will provide students with the knowledge and skills to prepare, plan and organise appropriate training sessions for football players (including both soccer and Australian rules football). It focuses on the development of players’ individual skills, basic team strategies/tactics and the rules of the game.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Plan, organise and communicate training sessions to improve basic football techniques and tactics.
  2. Apply fundamental biomechanical and skill acquisition principles when developing football coaching strategies.
  3. Use knowledge of the rules of football to inform coaching practice.
  4. Collaborate with peers to evaluate and improve personal coaching behaviours.

Unit Content

  1. The natural development of football players.
  2. Football coaching methodologies.
  3. Coaching more creative players from the grassroots level.
  4. Individual and team skills in playing football.
  5. Knowledge of the playing rules and strategies of football.
  6. Analysis of biomechanical techniques for the purpose of effective teaching and coaching.
  7. Conditioning for developing football players.
  8. Practical sessions which enable students to plan training routines in a sound logical manner.
  9. Basic small sided games to develop players' game intelligence.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars and performance laboratories introduce students to teamwork principles. Practical performance assessment tasks will include planning and conducting coaching sessions

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PerformancePractical exercise60%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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