Great coaches ask young athletes to go to "great heights" to challenge themselves. They take care to prepare the athlete for each stage of development, but they cannot eradicate risk because it's inseparable from growth. They can, however, intervene to ensure that the risk isn't so great that it outweighs the reward of accomplishment
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The best coaches encourage young people to work hard, keep going when it would be easier to stop, risk making potentially painful errors, try again when they stumble, and learn to love the sport. Not a bad analogy for a dynamic classroom.
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individual and team skills, they continually attend to the growth patterns of each team member as well as the group
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analyze what the athletes do and adjust both training and the game plan as a result of what they see
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precise feedback along with individualized training that enables athletes to use this feedback productively
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tailor practice drills to the individual, but they also know that individuals are motivated in different ways
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realize that sideline drills are less motivating than the game itself, so they ensure that players grasp the link between drills and the game and that everyone gets to play the game to test their developing skills
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address interpersonal problems on a team as vigorously as problems with skills execution or a game pla