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Coaching Certification. ERIC Digest. - 0 views

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  • The coach is an important role model and influences values and attitudes. (Sabock, 1981)
  • Today's trends of hiring non-educators to coach and requiring limited professional preparation of coaches has raised concern over the educational value of interscholastic athletics as well as liability factors. These trends cause concern regarding the safety and welfare of the participant.
  • Certification of coaches is no guarantee that the problems will disappear or discontinue, but the problems can be reduced substantially if coaches can be certified in programs that approach those established for the education program.
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A State Analysis of High School Coaching Certification Requirements for Head Baseball C... - 0 views

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  • Currently, less than 8% of school coaches receive a specific education to coach (Martens, Flannery, and Roetert, 2003). Only 13 states specify that coaches must have a teaching certificate, and all of these states allow exceptions to this rule (NASBE, 2003
  • By 2000, 40% of the states required coaches to be certified in first aid and CPR, and 34% required coaches to complete a coaches' training course (Burgeson et al., 2001).
  • As a result of the lack of the states' initiative of requiring or recommending CPR and first-aid certification for all coaches, in 2003, the NFHS recommended that all coaches (experienced and non-experienced): (1) possess a current and valid CPR and first aid certification and (2) complete a planned systematic coaching education curriculum by 2006 (NASBE, 2003). In addition, the NFHS recommended that even certified teachers serving as head coaches maintain their professional development by completing a minimum of one coaching education course per year during their coaching tenure (NASBE, 2003).
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  • Among the co-ed middle/junior and senior high schools that offered co-ed interscholastic sports (99.2%), 51.7% required their head coaches to complete a coaches' training course (Burgeson et al., 2001). In addition, 51.3% and 45.6% of these secondary schools required head coaches to be certified in first aid and CPR, respectively (Burgeson et al., 2001).
  • Currently, there are 40 states that have adopted, recommended, or required one of two national certification programs (ASEP or PACE) for their respective head coaches (Jackowiak, 2003). Currently, ASEP continues to work with 40 state high school associations to provide coaching educational information for more than 25,000 coaches per year (ASEP, 2006)
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The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands « Sigm... - 6 views

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  • Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up; others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world.
  • Certain colleges, specifically “work colleges” like Warren Wilson College, Deep Springs College, and the College of the Ozarks, have long-established curricula that blend manual skills with a liberal-arts education.
  • Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the quad?
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  • but you can’t assume that the Bell Curve is out of operation here, that all workers are creative, or that they curl up with Kant and Thomas Mann in the evenings.
  • Learning how to grow tomatoes does not really prepare you for managing a farm so that it can survive a year or two of poor crops. Carving a wooden spoon might be a step on the way to saying, I can do it, but it sure won’t supply a kitchen with all the needed tools.
  • “Many educational institutions pride themselves on preparing students to lead a life of inquiry,” writes Philip Ackerman-Leist, an associate professor of environmental studies who founded the college farm, in Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader, a book about building his home and farm in Vermont. But “few actually challenge and support students to embrace the ecological questions and immediately begin living the possible solutions—not later but in the midst of the educational experience itself.”…
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