Having just landed back home after another amazing professional development week during GAIN XI at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, I’d thought I would share with you, through photos, snipp...Read More
“…from its inception, the interpretation of TGfU has been through the prism of discovery learning (Cobb and Yackel 1996; Phillips 1995). It was only in the 1990s that PE pedagogues later as...Read More
One of the reasons for writing my Blogs is to share some of the research out there and bring it to life. This Blog Article is inspired by this research article by Stephen Harvey, Shane Pill and Len Al...Read More
The differences between a coaches’ needs in Community… then Development… then Performance… After writing a Blog the other week on WHY Player-centred Coaching, Paul Hunter (Manager of National ...Read More
Comparing Coach and Player Centred Coaching… As I have already said over the last couple of weeks, if coaches/teachers/parents are more aware of the differences between these two approaches/phil...Read More
Last week I was invited up to Wilmslow High School by Matt Bebbington to carry out some CPD for their rugby coaches. Therefore, I thought I would share with you a few of the things that I asked the co...Read More
“Life after your PGCE year… My Journey…” (St. Luke’s, Exeter University, UK, June 2017) On arriving back in to the UK a couple of months ago from my time away teaching and coaching in Chile ...Read More
Dear GAINers, 2 weeks post GAIN X and I have just retuned from visiting a school in the UK, Wellington School in Somerset, where I met the Director of Sport (Athletic Director in US schools) and we di...Read More
Saturday 25th February 2017 (Round 3 RBS 6 Nations) England v. Italy @ Twickenham Can you recall such an occasion in rugby that has caused such a stir in the professional game…?! With everyone seemi...Read More
1. People: The PEOPLE made the experience! “Teaching/Coaching is about the Human Element” (Vern Gambetta) The willingness of people to share their knowledge, their experiences with everyon...Read More